Has there been any progress regarding this issue? Thank you. Steve: Like so much that Council might request, this has disappeared into the mists thanks both to covid and a general attitude that things cannot be fixed. Steve, as a transit operator I can attest to the accuracy of your post.
The biggest issue is pedestrians crossing the ROW, often without looking for oncoming vehicles, causing pedestrian-streetcar contacts. There have been too many injuries, including deaths, so a slow order has been imposed between Sullivan and Dundas on Spadina forcing streetcars to crawl along at 20kph between those stops. Another issue is the pantographs on the Flexities.
There have been numerous issues with panto-drops due to poor design, hence slow orders in and out of Spadina tunnel and under the Gardiner overpass. The length of the Flexities means that only one car can occupy a platform at a time, even at Bremner with its exceptionally long platform.
If diverting cars could occupy the same platform as a Spadina car, this would permit passengers to transfer between lines more easily, as well as permit faster vehicle operation. Spadina is a lost cause of poor transit planning, improperly designed infrastructure, badly designed equipment, and interference from the public and city council, all in one caldron. Like Liked by 2 people.
Something which may be missing from the data is the extremely long dwell times where passengers are trapped in the tunnel at Spadina waiting to exit during rush hour.
This is because of the much larger design of the new streetcars and the platform which was not expanded to accommodate them. The is weird in that its travel time is highly sensitive to overcrowding, despite the dedicated ROW.
At night, it races, but is genuinely approaching walking speed during rush hour due to the factors mentioned in this article and my comment. Makes for an extremely frustrating commute. I used to take the daily pre-covid but walking over to Bathurst may not be the worst idea going forwards! Steve: I will publish a follow up article on the time taken by cars queued at the terminal.
This was a problem with shorter cars, but with the Flexitys the single car platform compounds the problem. Will the city actually use up-to-date technology to get true transit priority? Unlikely with the current crops of politicians and bureaucrats.
The point is that by avoiding reporting absolute speed over the distance of the whole route, the TTC avoids the embarrassment of just how awful the service is while being able to do nothing to improve the ability to get from A to B. Problems with lagging left turns on Spadina would be caused by the fact that the left turn lanes are short and if you ended up with too many cars waiting and it would back into the left hand through lane and if there are cars turning right it would block the right hand through lane.
This would cause the transportation gurus read autophiles to go crazy. There is a discussion of this on the Canadian Public Transit Discussion Board , based on these observations. Some of the commenters may be actual TTC operators.
The discussion starts down towards the end of the page. It sounds like the root cause of the problems is a City Council with no interest in transit. Even one or two?
Accomplishing anything might require an actual majority, but are there even a few? You know, using the appropriately-sized vehicle for the job? Like, using real subway cars on the Ontario Line? WT vehicles on Maple Leaf? You are aware that pre-pandemic it carried 5, riders a day? Hi Steve, I checked out Alstom and Skoda, and the shortest streetcars they make are 30m length vs.
Talk about suppliers not meeting what the market needs. A 15m car does not have to be dedicated to one line only. Steve: Both Kingston Road and Lakeshore cars supplement service on routes with full-sized vehicles, primarily King. That is not a place to send small cars. As for the night service, there is no point in changing off full-sized daytime cars for shorter night cars.
The service will be half-hourly either way. No difference today. Steve: The peak vehicle requirement for Maple Leaf is six buses. The higher riding count comes from the fact that 59 Maple Leaf is in effect a branch of 52 Lawrence West and many of those riders do not board on the unique segment of the Those riders still have to be carried somehow.
I found this blast from the past regarding Skoda cars for the TTC. Steve: The importance of keeping any new car order in Ontario i. I have not ridden the 59 bus lately nor any bus, for that matter. However, I work at the corner of Ingram and Kincourt. When I see a 59 go by, it generally has more than five people aboard. Note that the unique part of the 59 route passes through an industrial area with shift workers similar to, say, the Sherway , and then through a collection of midrise apartment buildings on Gulliver.
Steve: It is in play in the mind of one of our readers who sees it as a gold mine of savings for the TTC. It was debated with such detail and fervor, it was as if changing this one route would make the TTC a shining beacon of efficiency combined with public service. They talk about empty buses, but forget that the pre-pandemic service standard was that 10 boardings per vehicle hour was the minimum needed to justify a route.
During the off peak period, the round-trip time on Maple Leaf is one hour, and therefore it meets the standard if only 10 people ride each bus at some point in its round trip.
They will not all be on the buses at the same time. It displays, in real time, the location of the streetcars as they make their way south from Spadina station, down to Queen's Quay and back up again. Step two: Click on each of the red " Spadina" flags and look at the vehicle number. The streetcars you're looking for are number and number The TTC had hoped that an accessibility icon would be displayed on this map to let riders know when the next low-floor streetcar is coming. The TTC says this is in the works.
One of the new cars, number , was pulled from service for about an hour Tuesday morning while technicians fixed a problem with a vault on the fare vending machine. It was back in service by a. Pseudonyms will no longer be permitted. By submitting a comment, you accept that CBC has the right to reproduce and publish that comment in whole or in part, in any manner CBC chooses.
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