TTC: Other Items (catch all)

[Napoleon]

It appears official that the King Street Bridge will reopen and the 504 and 503 will resume regular routings:
http://www.ttc.ca/Service_Advisories/Route_diversions/503brdg.jsp

 

[CDL.TO]

How long has it been?

 

[nfitz]

How long has it been?

About 21 months. We've been discussing the recent developments (and the status for many months), including sightings of the Flexity test vehicle in the Corktown thread - urbantoronto.ca/forum/showthread.php/6406-Corktown/page45

 

[TheTigerMaster]

Just when there were new service improvements to look forward to, I find out about this:



http://stevemunro.ca/2015/05/26/the-lord-mayor-giveth-and-the-lord-mayor-taketh-away/

Tory's turning out to be Rob Ford without the crack.

 

[salsa]

Tory's turning out to be Rob Ford without the crack.

If not crack then he must be smoking something else if he really believes he can keep taxes low while building a subway in Scarb, Dumbtrack on Eglinton, boosting TTC service, rebuilding the Gardiner, and finding efficiencies.

 

[achender]

Wasn't sure where to post this, but the King st bridge is open for at least car traffic now.
Didn't see any street cars on it while I was there.

 

[nfitz]

Wasn't sure where to post this, but the King st bridge is open for at least car traffic now.
Didn't see any street cars on it while I was there.

Streetcars returned this morning - it was an amazing quick ride from Carroll to Ontario with the crawl down Parliament

Steve Munro has an article on his website, including picture of cars running through Corktown. Much of the discussion about this has been in the Corktown thread, with the reopening discussion starting with http://urbantoronto.ca/forum/showthread.php/6406-Corktown?p=1004874#post1004874 on Monday.

 

[TheTigerMaster]

There is no subway service on our subway and RT service, due to communications troubles. There will be no shuttle busses

http://www.ttc.ca/mobile/index.jsp

 

[Jonny5]

There is no subway service on our subway and RT service, due to communications troubles. There will be no shuttle busses

http://www.ttc.ca/mobile/index.jsp

This is a disaster. CBC says stations are rammed beyond capacity. People are giving up and going home.

 

[PinkLucy]

It's back

 

[Jonny5]

Cranky train conductor at Union: "On a morning like today transit control still thinks it needs to hold and dispatch trains to make the headway. No idea why. So we're just gonna sit here until the light turns green."

I waited about four minutes for that train to arrive. And it waited about a two minutes before departing.

 

[Electrify]

If a train goes through a red, won't the train stop automatically anyways?

 

[DSC]

If a train goes through a red, won't the train stop automatically anyways?

They would probably also fire the operator!

 

[the lemur]

Anyone have any info on what caused everything (all comms systems, phones, etc.) to go down this morning? Just a huge power failure?

 

[Jonny5]

If a train goes through a red, won't the train stop automatically anyways?

It sounds like he was implying transit control could switch the light to green. It wasn't held because of another train in front, it was stopped at a timing point.