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Where in the world are train doors as forgiving as elevator doors? This is a completely foreign concept to me.

I do not think that shoving one subway car out of the way, parked under the wide open sky, and that would create extra work to extricate, would make for a compelling example of preservation. As well, keeping only one car would mean that they'd be unable to move themselves under their own power...

The most recent news article inadvertently highlights how unworkable it actually is to name stations after neighbourhoods in this city. https://urbantoronto.ca/news/2024/07/menkes-maison-77-clarendon-topped-south-hill.56498 I do not consider myself to be geographically challenged, but I have...

I suspect this may be the driving argument behind not saving any subway cars, period (though the lack of preserved buses from that era tells me indifference to heritage is a significant factor as well). They are HUGE, they take up a lot of space. And there is no convenient place to display them...

How do you expect that any preservation society ever got started? Halton County was the brainchild of a bunch of regular guys who were into transit. They saw that their favourite cars were endangered, and wanted to do something about it. They were not rich, and they did not have the backing of...

This right here is why I feel no sympathy for your position, and why I expect you are having a difficult time finding anyone else who does, either. So because you didn't get what you want, now no one, from now on through to the end of time, shouldn't get what they want, either? These are...

Dude, you are literally responding to a post in which I wrote that it's a shame the cars didn't get saved. I can't even reminisce without you jumping me with your baseless conspiracy theories. There is no conspiracy against the Hawkers. For much of the last 30 years, the TTC hasn't given a shit...

The TTC was not discontinued when those cars were retired. As long as time moves on, and the TTC keeps running, history will keep being created. Not saving anything else is spiteful and does the generations that follow us a disservice.

I am not aware of any H6s ever having their center stanchions removed. Not even all of the H5s were done - to my knowledge, it was limited to a handful of cars, including 5755, 5784-87, 5799, and the T1 prototype 5796. If you go onto Flickr and type in "Hawker-Siddeley H5 interior", you will see...

Apart from the fact that the line is pretty rammed as is during rush hour and adding more density to it would be detrimental, how do you envision that they would do this? It is the TTC that would be the recipient of the subway trains. What authority do they have to demand that the city upscale...

Of course, submitting a request is no guarantee it will actually get fulfilled...

The decision not to refurbish the T1s several years ago is looking increasingly foolish with every passing day. I love it when public officials engage in brinkmanship.

In that example, though, the person has tapped again 1 hr 55 minutes after their initial tap, so if the inspector were to see that, he could conclude that it is reasonable for that person to still be on the TTC. In my example though I'm wondering what would happen if you only tapped the one...

How does this work from a fare inspection perspective? If you, theoretically, remained on the TTC for 5 hours after your initial tap, how can the fare inspector tell if the tap he sees is legitimate, or if that was only for your first trip of the day and the rest of the time you've been evading...

They will overflow onto the local roads and make traffic hostile and/or unsafe for pedestrians and streetcars. Is this what we want to encourage?

Well, like I said, that's why there should be boards from both agencies in all parts of the station. I don't think burying later GO departures to show closer VIA trains, or vice versa, is the answer. Keep them separate, but have signs for both systems.

Fair, but couldn't this happen anyway? What's to stop someone from tapping on and then handing their card over the fare gate to a friend? In the old days when transfers were widely used this was a preferred trick of high school students who would throw them out the windows and file on without...

Has the English language does a complete semantic shift in the last 24 hours or something?! If the parameters of the debate were accurate, the page you linked to, by virtue of using the phrase blood libel, would in itself be anti Semitic. Seriously, what are you guys talking about here? The...

A) don't the machines have a memory to prevent exactly this? B) who cares how many physical times the card is being used, as long as actual money is flowing through? The credit card companies seem to have figured it out...

What anti semitic language is being used? "Blood libel" is a legitimate phrase used in legitimate to dictionaries to refer to slanderous anti Semitic accusations. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/blood_libel As far as I can tell, the post appears to be asserting that one of the reasons why this...