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I don't see the logic in removing the stop, The streetcars don't have to stop there, so I doubt there is much impact on line performance.
 
JayBeeGooner said:
I don't see the logic in removing the stop, The streetcars don't have to stop there, so I doubt there is much impact on line performance.
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Surely you know that all delays to TTC service are caused by passengers, traffic or weather and NEVER anything to do with TTC line management or organization! :->
 
In the old days, there used to be a stop at Bloor Street and at Sussex and at Harbord, similar to the stop spacing northbound on the Bathurst Car (the stops at Bloor was so walk-up passengers could avoid walking up to the station and boarding there and vice versa - the Wellesley bus stops at Yonge as well as in the station - similar idea).
 
Juan_Lennon416 said:
Any chance of the TTC looking at eliminating 'near side' and 'far side' bus stops?
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Aren't those used primarily on wide streets where there are a lot of transferring passengers between the cross routes? If you eliminated the far-side stop then transferring passengers from the cross route would all have to cross the street to get to the near side stop, probably just in time to see their bus pulling away from the stop towards them. It eliminates some of the need for passengers to cross streets, which would then cause buses to have to wait out lights for them, people running across red lights to catch their bus etc. Maybe there's a more scientific reason but that's what it always looked like to me.
 
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Building a better subway turnstile beep

New York is a city of noise. Amidst the hustle and bustle of pedestrian life, the largely unnecessary honking of horns and the blaring of car alarms, and the sirens that go by at all hours of the day, we tend to block out the aural distractions. Thus, a simple beep, while annoying at the wrong time, is very easy to ignore.

For subway turnstiles, that’s a problem. For every MetroCard swipe, failed or otherwise, an MTA turnstile emits a beep. No matter the outcome, the beep is the same, and even the slight double-beep of a failed swipe or a triple-beep of an empty card aren’t distinct enough to catch the attention of someone who’s already trying to zoom through. In other words, a stiff turnstile arm to the gut is far more likely to draw someone’s attention that a double beep.

As problems go, it’s not a particularly pressing one, but with the MTA eying a complete overhaul of the fare payment system within the next few years, the agency is particularly primed to do something about it. Enter James Murphy. The former frontman for LCD Soundsystem has been pushing his plan to make the subways more tolerable for a few years, and he recently garnered a front-page article in the Wall Street Journal. Murphy’s solution doesn’t solve the problem of differentiating between swipe outcomes, but it would make the subways, he says, sound more pleasant.
For the past 15 years, Mr. Murphy has been crafting what he says is a low-cost musical solution: He has worked out a unique set of notes for every station, one of which would sound each time a passenger swipes his or her MetroCard to catch a train. The busier a station becomes, the richer the harmonies would be. The same notes would also play in a set sequence when the subway arrives at that stop. Each of the city’s 468 subway stations would have note sets in different keys.

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As Murphy notes that other subway systems have far more soothing sounds, he isn’t the only one proposing a solution. Still the MTA doesn’t seem too open to the idea:
[Spokesman Adam] Lisberg said Mr. Murphy’s plan “is a very cool idea,†one that several people have independently proposed over the years. But it might be hard to put into practice, he said: It’s likely to require a lot of time and money, and probably means temporarily taking each of the city’s 3,289 turnstiles out of service, something the authority is not inclined to do “for an art project.â€
“If you screw something up,†Mr. Lisberg continued, you risk breaking the turnstile. Given the 5.5 million passengers who use the system on an average weekday, he said the transit authority was “not inclined to mess with anythng that could get in their way.â€

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I mean Yonge is 601, and BD is 602, and the RT is 603, and Sheppard is 604. So maybe Eglinton will be 605, or maybe 701.
 
doady said:
The term "rapid transit" refers to completely grade-separated transit lines.
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No it isn't. It's transit that operates for a significant part of their journey within a fully dedicated right of way. The occasional crossing doesn't make it not rapid tranist.

Are you going to say that none of our GO Transit rail lines are rapid transit? Or the Edmonton LRT?
 
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