Metrolinx: Other Items (catch all)

[Urban Sky]

Maps should be readable for those with farsightedness, cataracts, and/or glaucoma.

It‘s impossible to provide this depth of detail in an accessible format. There should be an „accessible“ version which is optimized for the user groups you describe…

 

[drum118]

Be stuip and pay the price for it

Second man dies following light-rail train collision on Montreal’s South Shore​

 

[crs1026]

Here I am, grinding my axe again, this time with a hint of support from the Supreme Court of Canada.

The question would be, if private investors have this level of transparency around their personal investments.... why would the taxpayer not be entitled to a comparable level of legal transparency around their investment in infrastructure.... when the amount each taxpayer contributes may equal or exceed their annual TFSA contribution?

Supreme Court rules investors can sue companies that fail to disclose ‘material changes’ fast enough​

- Paul

 

[Northern Light]

Be stuip and pay the price for it

Second man dies following light-rail train collision on Montreal’s South Shore​

@Paclo

This doesn't have anything to do with Metrolinx, can we shift this to the Montreal Transit thread? Thanks.

 

[EllaW]

I live nearest to the Scarborough GO station, and they really need to rename it for wayfinding purposes. Without fail, whenever I have people visit me and give them specific instructions about getting to Scarborough GO, they get confused when buying tickets because when you type in “Scarborough”, all the stations in Scarborough pop up.

 

[Amare]

I live nearest to the Scarborough GO station, and they really need to rename it for wayfinding purposes. Without fail, whenever I have people visit me and give them specific instructions about getting to Scarborough GO, they get confused when buying tickets because when you type in “Scarborough”, all the stations in Scarborough pop up.

Well that's what Metrolinx loves, dont you know?

(As evidenced by the 3 Eglinton Stations we'll have in the GTA).

 

[ShonTron]

I live nearest to the Scarborough GO station, and they really need to rename it for wayfinding purposes. Without fail, whenever I have people visit me and give them specific instructions about getting to Scarborough GO, they get confused when buying tickets because when you type in “Scarborough”, all the stations in Scarborough pop up.

Scarborough Junction would be just fine! That’s what the station was originally known as.

 

[urbanclient]

I was right. Line 5 Eglinton is completely cooked. Assuming 12 minutes recovery time at terminuses. The round trip is in fact 100 minutes, or 50 minutes end-to-end. Not 38 minutes as advertised.

***Breaking News***

- Myers: what is the estimated run time for Line 5. TTC staff: contractual number for round trip time is 98 minutes during rush hour and 90 minutes outside rush hour
- The current schedule we have for RSD is currently scheduling 112 minutes round trip
- Myers: are there any measures being considered to speed up the runtime? TTC staff: Any moves would have to be done in consideration with Mosaic and Metrolinx. At this point in time cannot say there are alternatives being discussed.

[Source]

Let's get the facts straight, a 34 bus travelling at 15.2 km/h beat the Line 5 Eglinton east of Victoria Park (O'Connor). The 34 bus had up to 10 stops before Kennedy, while Line 5 had 5 mandatory stops. 3.3/(13/60)= 15.2 km/h.

More to the point, the eastern mostly-at-grade section of Line 5 Eglinton is 7.7 km long. If Line 5 manages even 15 km/h speeds, that would imply a 30.8 minute travel time for that section. (7.7/15)*60=30.8 minutes; This is entirely congruent with my earlier estimate of 30 minutes for the eastern section (see previous post).

Therefore, Line 5 east of the Brentcliffe tunnel portal should take at least 30 minutes if operated like Line 6.
Total end-to-end trip times on Line 5 Eglinton should be 51 minutes for 19km for an average of 22.35 km/h.

I am calling it right now, there is NO way Line 5 will be 42 minutes end-to-end, much less 38 minutes if operated like Line 6 on opening day. It won't be any faster than 50 minutes until operations significantly improve, if ever.