TTC: Other Items (catch all)

[Northern Light]

And we wonder why stops and stations always have too much salt or are never cleared
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The labour part was meant to be funny; though it might be hard to take that way; but what gets me in that shot is dude literally shoveling salt out of the back of a pick-up bed; incredibly inefficient and leads to terrible results and high wastage which is also bad for the environment.

 

[drum118]

From the photos, the track is torn up so I am not sure why anyone would put on more workers to speed completion date of the overhead above it. I agree that, in general, updating the overhead has been painfully slow but suggest that any staff they have would be best to work on completing overhead on active track than over a construction site. As long as it's done when it can be used!

TTC is planning on new locations for the poles to support the OS as well a new system for it. Why spend time and money fixing it when it will be replace in phases. System wide, those OS areas should be fix by now since we are 3 years behind schedule already.

Not up to TTC to have manpower on site when the work is being done by X company based on a tender, as well a timeline for things to be done. If more workers are needed, it hopeful workers are found to do the work and keep things on schedule by X company.

Since we don't know what the schedule look like as well the type of work to be done, how can it be said work is been done to save money and who's money??

Shoring and building the poles foundation is not an overnight job. There also the infrastructure that has to be built to deal with the run off from the concrete tracks in place of dirt so no ponds are form under the new tracks.

If someone takes an update photo the first 2 weeks in January, we will have an comparison between these photos as well new ones to see what has change, then we can talk about schedule. Keep in mind that the next 2 weeks are holiday timeframes where no work will take place for a few days or a week.

 

[Monarch Butterfly]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1605644889760223232

The TTC can help reduce bunching by the use of Transit Signal Priority (TSP) at the subway/LRT station bus/streetcar entrances and exits. However, since that would be disliked by the single-occupant motorists, we can't do that. So no traffic signals.

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Shh!

Don't tell anyone. At the future Mt. Dennis Station for Line 5, there will be TSP at the bus entrance/egress intersection at Keelesdale Dr./Photography Dr. and Eglinton Ave. W..

 

[T3G]

Build an elevated subway above Broadview Avenue, that will make everything okay.

 

[EastYorkTTCFan]

Don't tell anyone. At the future Mt. Dennis Station for Line 5, there will be TSP at the bus entrance/egress intersection at Keelesdale Dr./Photography Dr. and Eglinton Ave. W..

They have them at Victoria park station too. It's a lot easier to have them at stations where they are going to be used a lot vs a streetcar loop that doesn't see a lot of usage all of the time.

 

[Monarch Butterfly]

They have them at Victoria park station too. It's a lot easier to have them at stations where they are going to be used a lot vs a streetcar loop that doesn't see a lot of usage all of the time.

If a station is not used a lot, that means the car traffic will get a l-o-n-g green. Only turning red to allow the streetcar/bus to go and sneak in. Could mean the streetcar or bus may actually be on time for once. May allow the pedestrian to cross over as well, instead of jaywalking in front of cars.

 

[T3G]

They have them at Victoria park station too. It's a lot easier to have them at stations where they are going to be used a lot vs a streetcar loop that doesn't see a lot of usage all of the time.

Broadview is no lightly used streetcar loop, though.

Couldn't they have transponders that trigger the light priority? If no streetcar is coming, the light doesn't change.

 

[Steve X]

Broadview is no lightly used streetcar loop, though.

Couldn't they have transponders that trigger the light priority? If no streetcar is coming, the light doesn't change.

Of course they can. Like how TSP used to work on Queens Quay. It’s just that this city is backwards.

 

[EastYorkTTCFan]

Broadview is no lightly used streetcar loop, though.

Couldn't they have transponders that trigger the light priority? If no streetcar is coming, the light doesn't change.

Probably not because most TTC stations are fairly close to an intersection already and adding an extra set of lights isn't going to happen it would be like if we put lights at every street that crosses a major street.

 

[Jonny5]

Of course they can. Like how TSP used to work on Queens Quay. It’s just that this city is backwards.

They can't even get this working at the entrance/exit of the loop inside St. Clair West Station. Nothing worse than sitting and waiting on a streetcar or bus to finally depart the station, but then it has to stop for 30 seconds at a red light waiting for the zero other vehicles moving in any direction to clear.

 

[T3G]

Probably not because most TTC stations are fairly close to an intersection already and adding an extra set of lights isn't going to happen it would be like if we put lights at every street that crosses a major street.

Erindale isn't close enough to Danforth to make this a factor. And again, if no one needs the light, it doesn't get activated.

 

[smallspy]

Couldn't they have transponders that trigger the light priority? If no streetcar is coming, the light doesn't change.

This is exactly how it works at most of the signalized exits to subway stations.

Probably not because most TTC stations are fairly close to an intersection already and adding an extra set of lights isn't going to happen it would be like if we put lights at every street that crosses a major street.

This can be a problem, and it's almost certainly the problem at Broadview. The issue isn't with Danforth, but rather with the intersection to the north at Pretoria. That intersection is a shade over 100m away from Erindale, and the City's rules regarding signalized intersections require a minimum distance of - if I recall correctly - 150m between two of them.

The other issue is that as Erindale is a two-way street, and so a transit vehicle-activated traffic signal wouldn't work there. Perhaps if it was changed to one way eastbound from Broadview to Ellerbeck or the Green P lot, it may be able to be signalized.

Dan

 

[DSCToronto]

This is exactly how it works at most of the signalized exits to subway stations.



This can be a problem, and it's almost certainly the problem at Broadview. The issue isn't with Danforth, but rather with the intersection to the north at Pretoria. That intersection is a shade over 100m away from Erindale, and the City's rules regarding signalized intersections require a minimum distance of - if I recall correctly - 150m between two of them.

The other issue is that as Erindale is a two-way street, and so a transit vehicle-activated traffic signal wouldn't work there. Perhaps if it was changed to one way eastbound from Broadview to Ellerbeck or the Green P lot, it may be able to be signalized.

Dan

It would seem like something WELL worth looking into as the delays for streetcars at the Broadview/Erindale exit are often quite long. At some point (soon?) the Green P is supposed to go and the TTC loop expanded to properly support two busy streetcar lines. That might be when to do it?

 

[Monarch Butterfly]

Probably not because most TTC stations are fairly close to an intersection already and adding an extra set of lights isn't going to happen it would be like if we put lights at every street that crosses a major street.

Like the traffic signals on Queen Street West, one at Yonge Street, another for pedestrians crossing between Eaton Centre & The Bay, and another at Bay Street?

The real reason is that the auto is king, and the city must give them priority.

 

[Amare]

The other issue is that as Erindale is a two-way street, and so a transit vehicle-activated traffic signal wouldn't work there. Perhaps if it was changed to one way eastbound from Broadview to Ellerbeck or the Green P lot, it may be able to be signalized.

I think that's the solution right there; to make Erindale a one-way street from Ellerbeck to Broadview to allow for priority signal installation. Only thing is, if that were done buses would have to use Pretoria and Ellerbeck to enter Broadview Station and residents would probably bring out their pitch forks.

Although if the city closed the Green P lot and extended Broadview station, I think all of that would be more "digestable" for residents (not that I care about the whining they would do over much of nothing).