TTC: Other Items (catch all)

[Amare]

Do we know if this is work within Kipling Station or road work on St Albans ramp to Kipling as those affordable housing towers are going up? The routes listed are the only ones that would go up that way.

Not a great picture, but its in the exact area I suspected, the east side of the entrance to the bus roadway. The concrete road bed needs to be repaired, so essentially buses traveling along St.Albans aren't able to turn into the station (thus routes 40, 44, 45, 46, 149, 944, 945, 300 are all diverting via Dundas).

They had more than a year to address the issue when Kipling was last under construction 2 years ago, and they chose not to do it.

So now the TTC decided to come back and inconvenience riders because they cant plan projects properly. And i'm fully willing to wager that they wont repair the rest of the bus roadway that's still asphalt, and they'll come back next year and decide to do it for whatever idiotic reasoning they have because they cant use logic to do things properly the first, 2nd, or 3rd time around.

 

[Steve X]

Not a great picture, but its in the exact area I suspected, the east side of the entrance to the bus roadway. The concrete road bed needs to be repaired, so essentially buses traveling along St.Albans aren't able to turn into the station (thus routes 40, 44, 45, 46, 149, 944, 945, 300 are all diverting via Dundas).

They had more than a year to address the issue when Kipling was last under construction 2 years ago, and they chose not to do it.

So now the TTC decided to come back and inconvenience riders because they cant plan projects properly. And i'm fully willing to wager that they wont repair the rest of the bus roadway that's still asphalt, and they'll come back next year and decide to do it for whatever idiotic reasoning they have because they cant use logic to do things properly the first, 2nd, or 3rd time around.

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I never understand these band-aid solution. What happens to brains at the TTC?

 

[turbanplanner]

Not a great picture, but its in the exact area I suspected, the east side of the entrance to the bus roadway. The concrete road bed needs to be repaired, so essentially buses traveling along St.Albans aren't able to turn into the station (thus routes 40, 44, 45, 46, 149, 944, 945, 300 are all diverting via Dundas).

They had more than a year to address the issue when Kipling was last under construction 2 years ago, and they chose not to do it.

So now the TTC decided to come back and inconvenience riders because they cant plan projects properly. And i'm fully willing to wager that they wont repair the rest of the bus roadway that's still asphalt, and they'll come back next year and decide to do it for whatever idiotic reasoning they have because they cant use logic to do things properly the first, 2nd, or 3rd time around.

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This is why I laugh when people say more funding would fix all the problems! It's definitely an issue but the bigger problem is nobody (with any power) is incentivized to do a good job.

 

[DSCToronto]

I never understand these band-aid solution. What happens to brains at the TTC?

Probably short-turned?

 

[Bordercollie]

Bu

For the love of God, how many times are we going to have to go through something at Kipling Station.

This is the 3rd time in about 10 years (and 2nd time in 2 years) where the TTC has completely shut down or restricted buses in the bus bay for reconstruction, and each time they do it they do some kind of half-ass work and they dont rebuild the full terminal.

The 1st time they replaced some (but not all asphalt sections) with concrete pads for whatever idiotic reason which lead to the existing aging asphalt sinking in some areas. The most recent time they did rolling closures of bus bays, they rebuilt plaform areas but didnt repair the areas where concrete was deteriorating (ie: the entrance to the station).

Now we're going through yet another batch of repairs? Just repair the whole damn station at once and be done with it, my goodness.

Thats nothing. Sheppard Yonge has been closed for over a year. Most work was already completed in April. But it's still closed for some reason and they keep the escalator running to spend extra money on electricity.

 

[Jonny5]

"Nothing to see here, folks. Everything is good."

 

[turbanplanner]

"Nothing to see here, folks. Everything is good."

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At least it's running, maybe in 20 more years all the diversions will be finished for 3 or 4 days

 

[nfitz]

An 18-minute gap? That's 100% normal.

Look at 506 right now at 18:45, looks like every 20 minutes service, other than the cars about to go out service at Coxwell.

 

[Steve X]

An 18-minute gap? That's 100% normal.

Look at 506 right now at 18:45, looks like every 20 minutes service, other than the cars about to go out service at Coxwell.

I can’t believe TTC is even considering 6 minute services, I mean 6 cars in a row service.

 

[JBR]

Tracking Reduced Speed Zones

Since February 2024, I have tracked the TTC’s posted list of Reduced Speed Zones (RSZs) on subway lines 1 (YUS) and 2 (BD). A pattern has emerged that some RSZs are very long-lasting, others …

stevemunro.ca

 

[nfitz]

I can’t believe TTC is even considering 6 minute services, I mean 6 cars in a row service.

It's more like restoring 6-minute service.

In my experience, with 6-minute service, 12-minute gaps were common but 18-minute gaps happened, but no where near as often.

With 10-minute service, 20-minute gaps are common. And I've certainly been seeing 30-minute gaps.

 

[chrisw]

Also from Steve Munroe's article on the slow zones. Some good excerpts from pre pandemic when they gave some more details on their maintenance procedures.

In 2018, their plan was to convert 25,000 mainline timber track ties to 20,000 concrete ties. They planned to install 2,000 concrete ties a year. They're supposed to have a service life of 75 years vs 35 years.

The majority of the ballast was from original construction. Some can be old as 45 years old. They planned to replace 2,000 cubic yards of ballast a year.

 

[LukaMilo8]

Mandeep Lali says he will ride the system daily and not own a car in his first TTC CEO report! I know the standards are low but really love to see that from the new TTC CEO.

 

[RapidTransit]

Mandeep Lali says he will ride the system daily and not own a car in his first TTC CEO report! I know the standards are low but really love to see that from the new TTC CEO.
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Similar to Andy Byford. But I don't believe Byford had a driver's license?

And I wonder where he lives. Leary lived in Aurora, and Andy Byford lived in Chaplin if I recall?

Either way , good news. I'm always proud first hand experience. True ground work lense. You can only get so much from reports and KPI. Most times those findings don't even reflect the actual customer experience.

Also, how long is Greg Percy expected to stay on for? Obviously he needs to stick around until Mandeep is more familiar and to help with transition.

 

[SubHuman]

... I don't believe your link between visible mental illness and/or addiction and persons at track level is correct...

From what I can see, apparently the number of these incidents reported went from:
110 in 2018 (cbc.ca),
then to "closer to 600" in 2022 (Toronto Star),
then "In 2024 ... alone, 724 “unauthorized track-level” incidents occurred".

I have trouble believing it's always a new person doing this for the first time, when it's happening this often. It just seems as though maybe the authorities prefer to ignore the situation and no one wants to take the responsibility for their inaction -- not just for the TTC delays, but also the mentally unsound individuals endangering themselves.
If they don't bother keeping track of individual offenders, how would they know?

At St. George Station on Dec. 14, 2023, a person was said to have been apprehended three times under the Mental Health Act in a span of 24 hours, twice by TTC constables and once by Toronto cops...

TTC spokesperson Stuart Green said while individual offenders aren’t tracked, the agency’s constables said repeat track-level offences aren’t typical...

A mischief charge was laid on April 29 of this year after a person was seen on the catwalk past the end gate at Spadina Station “squatting with their pants around their knees (and) smoking an (unknown) substance.” ...
On May 17, 2024, at Eglinton Station, a male was brought back to the platform, where he told an officer he heard “voices telling him to go to track level and to act like a monkey.”