TTC: Other Items (catch all)

[PL1]

An annoyance: rather than showing when the next train will come, at many times the Next Train board will display something like "every 3 minutes", which is annoying and like this morning (8 minutes) patently incorrect.

I fired a complaint off to the TTC today (after being irked by this for a while). Just let us know how long the next train will be!!!

 

[evandyk]

An annoyance: rather than showing when the next train will come, at many times the Next Train board will display something like "every 3 minutes", which is annoying and like this morning (8 minutes) patently incorrect.

I fired a complaint off to the TTC today (after being irked by this for a while). Just let us know how long the next train will be!!!

I especially love it when it ticks down from 5 minutes to 4, 3, 2, 1, then switches to "Every 3 minutes".

 

[txlseries4]

An annoyance: rather than showing when the next train will come, at many times the Next Train board will display something like "every 3 minutes", which is annoying and like this morning (8 minutes) patently incorrect.

I fired a complaint off to the TTC today (after being irked by this for a while). Just let us know how long the next train will be!!!

In Copenhagen the metro platforms have displays that show the next 2 or 3 train arrival times - that would be amazing here. I think it would also go a long way to also display how long until the next train near the fare gates so I know whether I need to rush down or not. It's exasperating to be on the stairs, hear the noise of a train, then race down just to find out it was on the other side. I won't naively say "it's so simple!" but I feel like at least showing train arrival times at the entrances would be a huge win for customer experience improvements.

Here's what one of the Copenhagen metro stations looks like:

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[bearcat]

In Copenhagen the metro platforms have displays that show the next 2 or 3 train arrival times - that would be amazing here. I think it would also go a long way to also display how long until the next train near the fare gates so I know whether I need to rush down or not. It's exasperating to be on the stairs, hear the noise of a train, then race down just to find out it was on the other side. I won't naively say "it's so simple!" but I feel like at least showing train arrival times at the entrances would be a huge win for customer experience improvements.

Here's what one of the Copenhagen metro stations looks like:
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But where will the ads go?

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

In Copenhagen the metro platforms have displays that show the next 2 or 3 train arrival times - that would be amazing here. I think it would also go a long way to also display how long until the next train near the fare gates so I know whether I need to rush down or not. It's exasperating to be on the stairs, hear the noise of a train, then race down just to find out it was on the other side. I won't naively say "it's so simple!" but I feel like at least showing train arrival times at the entrances would be a huge win for customer experience improvements.

Here's what one of the Copenhagen metro stations looks like:
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Helps that their display system is used for arrival times in its' entirety - unlike here, where the displays - when available - are 90% garbage ads.

But where will the ads go?

Back to the h**e that it came from.

AoD

 

[T3G]

An annoyance: rather than showing when the next train will come, at many times the Next Train board will display something like "every 3 minutes", which is annoying and like this morning (8 minutes) patently incorrect.

I fired a complaint off to the TTC today (after being irked by this for a while). Just let us know how long the next train will be!!!

When this happens I believe it is as a result of a problem with the train tracking system. Thus the system defaults to whatever the scheduled headway happens to be at the time.

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

When this happens I believe it is as a result of a problem with the train tracking system. Thus the system defaults to whatever the scheduled headway happens to be at the time.

The system is pathetic even when it is functional since it is based on passage through locations.

AoD

 

[Northern Light]

In Copenhagen the metro platforms have displays that show the next 2 or 3 train arrival times - that would be amazing here

We have, or had these when the TYSSE opened.

We might have pictures in the applicable thread.

They weren't the same as the Copenhagen displays, but they did show the next 3 train times.

We never rolled them out system wide.

 

[11th]

In Copenhagen the metro platforms have displays that show the next 2 or 3 train arrival times - that would be amazing here. I think it would also go a long way to also display how long until the next train near the fare gates so I know whether I need to rush down or not. It's exasperating to be on the stairs, hear the noise of a train, then race down just to find out it was on the other side. I won't naively say "it's so simple!" but I feel like at least showing train arrival times at the entrances would be a huge win for customer experience improvements.

Here's what one of the Copenhagen metro stations looks like:
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Doesn't need to look across the pond. CTA has clean PIDs.


Platform at Chicago (Blue), looking northwest

 

[drum118]

In Copenhagen the metro platforms have displays that show the next 2 or 3 train arrival times - that would be amazing here. I think it would also go a long way to also display how long until the next train near the fare gates so I know whether I need to rush down or not. It's exasperating to be on the stairs, hear the noise of a train, then race down just to find out it was on the other side. I won't naively say "it's so simple!" but I feel like at least showing train arrival times at the entrances would be a huge win for customer experience improvements.

Here's what one of the Copenhagen metro stations looks like:
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We saw those stations in 2022 that saw service about every 5 minutes as well seeing them on many other systems in Europe. I maybe wrong, but saw this on Atlanta and Washington systems in 2024 as well.

In some cases, there are count down clocks to the very second when your train will arrive at the station. Same goes for being on the train, bus or Tram.

TTC does a poor job of informing riders when a vehicle will be at X location while waiting for it. Even if you are on X, you have no info when your vehicle will get to your stop or the end of the line while in Europe info is display in real time for the next 5 stops along with info on connecting routes. Even in Las Vegas, buses show where the bus is related to those 5 stops as well when it will be there.

As for adds, they should be on a different screen that can be mounted on the wall or in the centre section beside screens that are supplying info when the train are to arrive as well time. Going back in time, it was stated that it would cost riders 2 cents to cover the cost of the lost revenue display on the current screen not having them there at all. Those adds do nothing for me nor want to run out and buy it what it trying to sell us.

 

[81-717]

An annoyance: rather than showing when the next train will come, at many times the Next Train board will display something like "every 3 minutes", which is annoying and like this morning (8 minutes) patently incorrect.

I fired a complaint off to the TTC today (after being irked by this for a while). Just let us know how long the next train will be!!!

It's also annoying how on transsee the arrival time could say 1:00, then count down the seconds (i.e. 0:45), but as soon as you refresh the page it resets back to 1:00, and does so on each refresh, until you actually see the train approaching, in which case the refresh shows 0:00. Sometimes the train could arrive nearly 2 mins later than originally predicted in 1:00.

In Copenhagen the metro platforms have displays that show the next 2 or 3 train arrival times - that would be amazing here.

Same in Warsaw, except it also shows what type of train it'll be (don't know any other subway system that does that). Made it easier to know when a 81-717 is coming (before they were removed from service in 2023)

 

[turbanplanner]

An unfortunate janitor

 

[Johnny Au]

An unfortunate janitorView attachment 631951

Welcome to Poop station, formerly Pape station!

While we are waiting for washrooms, please take a dump here.

 

[smallspy]

When this happens I believe it is as a result of a problem with the train tracking system. Thus the system defaults to whatever the scheduled headway happens to be at the time.

The display system is integrated with the signals, and will display the arrival of the train based on its progress through each signal block on the BD and Sheppard, or where the system interprets the position of the train on the YUS.

However if a train gets held for a longer period than is specified in the system - I don't know how long this period is - it will default back to showing the scheduled headway. Once it detects that it is moving again, it will then show the ETA.

It's also slightly problematic inbound from the ends of the system on the BD and Sheppard, as the scheduled amount of time from Kennedy to Warden, for example, is less than a headway at off-peak times. It will then sit showing the scheduled headway until it detects a train on its way.

Dan

 

[nfitz]

Bottom line is that I don't think that what we have now is a once every 2-year event. I'll get keen and run through all the data once they report the total depth - presumably tomorrow.

Well I didn't go through the Toronto data. But I noticed someone tweeted the Mississauga data from Pearson - which is very similar (though 1999 was much worse in downtown than Montreal.

So most snow depth since 1999. This isn't a once in every 2-year event. More like once a decade. And first time they've had to deal with that much snow along the outdoor subway sections since the new signalling system went in.