I just read that their pace is now over one streetcar per week, with the goal to get it to three per week.
It's a pretty serious ramp up, which of course had to come. They're still committed to having all streetcars delivered by 2019.
Does anyone know how many streetcars (old and new) are in service now? Hard to get a clear picture.
White Pine, Today at 8:38 PM
If 4455 is actually here, they're churning out cars faster than I thought they would. I thought they were steady at 3 per month, and now they only have to bring three in December to beat my estimate. Still late, but encouraging. Baby steps.
4455 hasn't been ship yet and no idea if 4454 is here now.
68 retired CLRV = 132 remaining
10 retired ALRV = 42 remaining.
55 replacements delivered.
If I count correctly (which I probably don't). Not as bad a deficit as I thought.
If you want LOTS of stats on streetcars take a look at: https://transit.toronto.on.ca/streetcar/4500.shtmlCLRV: 68 Retired and 132 Remaining makes a total count of 200 units. My understanding was that there only ever were 196 CLRVs in the fleet - six from the original Switzerland manufacturer, and 190 from Ontario (which started at 4010). Was I wrong?
As for retire, can't confirm that, but the rest is right.CLRV: 68 Retired and 132 Remaining makes a total count of 200 units. My understanding was that there only ever were 196 CLRVs in the fleet - six from the original Switzerland manufacturer, and 190 from Ontario (which started at 4010). Was I wrong?
1. How many CLRV’s are running on the 504? Brad Ross said that they added 7 restored CLRVs to improve capacity of the overcrowded line.
2. How many CLRVs does one Flexity replace?
King Street before the pilot was just unsustainable. You just can't have a situation where the traffic is moving so slowly that the streetcars bunch up together all the time and then have to be short-turned because they are so far behind their schedules. It's inefficient use of the fleet and ineffectual at moving people to where they need to go in a timely manner. As much as i don't like to say it, the skeptics simply don't understand the significance of making King Street a transit priority corridor. King Street will now move more people faster and more efficiently even though people can't necessarily see it because those people are contained mostly within a single vehicle (streetcar).There should always be a streetcar in view a block or two away if we’re going to improve the now bad PR of empty streets on King. It’s doubly insulting when drivers know that they can’t use King and then see a wide open street, transporting absolutely no one.
If King Street becomes a veritable downtown subway, visibly carrying passengers in large volumes, with several people getting on and off at each stop, with waiting and disembarking passengers creating vitality on the sidewalks, then I think it’ll be an easier sell to the skeptics.