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Works fine here - but they changed all their websites addresses, etc., a few months ago with the Umo branding. Try reinstalling, or installing Umo Mobility.Next Bus has been giving me a blank screen for months.
Works fine here - but they changed all their websites addresses, etc., a few months ago with the Umo branding. Try reinstalling, or installing Umo Mobility.Next Bus has been giving me a blank screen for months.
They might as well construct the tunnel to Vaughan Mills and include building a Vaughan Mills tail track in the contract.VMC Tail track: 217 million dollars?
That's more expensive than Downsview Park Station....the entire station.
The excellent Transit Costs website pegs the TYSSE at around $300m/km, whereas Sheppard was around $150m/km (adjusted for inflation)...They might as well construct the tunnel to Vaughan Mills and include building a Vaughan Mills tail track in the contract.
Okay, the TTC reduced service because of COVID-19. That's alright. I can look up on a transit app to see when the next bus arrives. I'll leave home 5 minutes before and only wait a couple of minutes.
WRONG!
As a regular TTC user, it bugs me that the transit apps are inaccurate. Comparing the arrival time of buses on several apps, they tell me that a bus will arrive in a couple of minutes. The minutes passes and still no bus. The apps get refreshed, and one says a bus will come in 12 minutes, while the other says 15 minutes. 8 minutes later a bus arrives, but did not appear in the app.
It’s forecast that tonight and likely later in the month that the temperatures in Toronto will be around -20°C. It would be nice if the transit app information being given out is accurate. Don’t want to step outside expecting the next vehicle will be coming in a couple of freezing minutes, instead of turning into icicles for 20+ minutes.
Could this be a result of a COVID-19 virus infecting the apps? Are the times “suggested” arrival times only, since they don’t seem to be real time.
Thank you for pointing this out @W. K. Lis .Just today, I used 'Next Bus' to predict when my next bus would be here. I always open the map function in addition to the predicted time.
The prediction said 27M on an every 10M route ................the Map showed a bus at a point where I know that makes no sense, it couldn't have been more than 15M tops........
I left it open and made sure I was ready to go..........
Refreshed it.........
The 27 inched down to 25, then suddenly plunged to 15M w/no change in bus position............
By this time I know its not more than 13M out, and probably less.......
2M later, it drops from 13M to 8M...........
At which point I head out the door....
There is something wonky w/the prediction software, it simply isn't very good.
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On my way home, I get to the station, and the bus stop, initially it says 7M............then suddenly jumps to 20M
I know exactly what that is.............
The bus is on the other side of the station, parked; when the driver logs out and turns the bus off; it loses its tracking spot.........
So I knew it would still be 7M +/- 2
It was.............the driver turned it back on........and the time re-set......
This is a serious flaw in the tracking software.
Not news; a question.
Should I be that guy? LOL
(a good rule of thumb, if you have to ask the question, the answer is 'no'; but I'm so tempted...LOL)
So....bus service is slow tonight, both due to a missing run or two on the service I wish to use, and due to the weather.
No fault of the operator.....but they were running late with inordinate wait time.
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Then they got to the station and decided to take a washroom break;
Hey.....if you got to go...... I'm totally sympathetic...
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But just a couple minutes out of the station......a mid-block stop, blocking traffic on a major road, so the operator could go get a Tim's Coffee.
(zero question, saw them the whole time, and watched as they came back w/said coffee) delaying a bus of riders by several minutes.)
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Other passengers literally yelled at the operator; needless to say, not my speed.
But I do have their operator number, the vehicle run number, the vehicle number and the time.....
So should I have their chain yanked?
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FWIW, if they had just gone on the PA and said 'I apologize, I'm exhausted, I need it to drive safely, be back ASAP' I think I'd be fine with it.
But the operator didn't give the impression of caring what anyone thought.
I will defer to the wisdom of the group, LOL.
Now to go make dinner!
As with any other problem in life:Come'on you indecisive, don't want to take a stand bunch, LOL
I know a bunch you have read this.....
As with any other problem in life:
Start yankin'.I don't believe that level of discipline is permitted under the collective agreement, never mind the constitution. LOL
Could I have said operator relieved of their job? Maybe; if their record was bad enough; more likely we're talking a written reprimand.
I'm still on the fence..............
I like being understanding and empathetic.
But I also detest assholery.
(and yes, that's a word) LOL
Other passengers literally yelled at the operator; needless to say, not my speed.
But I do have their operator number, the vehicle run number, the vehicle number and the time.....
So should I have their chain yanked?
Complete waste of time filing a complaint. The TTC is short drivers as is, they won't care if a driver stops for a coffee or stops and does cartwheels on the Don Valley. I have seen lots of divers over the years stop for coffee/ food and even pick up lottery tickets. I would imagine the TTC gets hundreds of complaints a day for drivers doing that. But nothing happens, that's why divers do it.