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Interesting read, but it's a bad time to do any passenger flow evaluations at Union given that the Bay Concourse remains closed, much of the access to the TTC and circulation within Union is closed, the lower (food court) level is completely closed, and there are spots of construction elsewhere...

Had an interesting Presto trip log yesterday: Took the GO train from Aurora, tapped off at Downsview Park GO. Used one of the nice new machines to reload, worked great. Tapped in to the subway and paid a $1.50 fare. Off to a good start. At 3:06PM I tapped on at St George station, and got a free...

Agreed on most points but the heated shelters were, in fact, operational on opening day, December 17th. I was in one of them. At least the one on the eastbound platform was working, can't speak to the one on the westbound platform. They are very weak compared to the GO ones, somebody asked me if...

I waited 17 minutes for a southbound train at Downsview Park today, finally arrived 2:28 PM. No idea when the previous one had rolled through. When it arrived almost every seat was taken, LOTS of standees. After Wilson there was barely any standing room left. TTCnotices indicates no service...

Oh yeah, the whole thing of trains running every 3-5 minutes and accepting TTC fares is never going to happen, and the SmartTrack branding will never appear on trains or in stations. I don't think anyone except Mayor Tory is deluded enough to believe that anymore, and I hope even he realizes it...

Yeah, VMC is a long time coming: transit being built before it's necessary, not long after. There are more condos and offices coming, and not to mention that the Viva Rapidway is barely open at all, just a tiny stretch of it from VMC east past Keele. Once the full rapidway is open east to RHC...

Interesting, I hadn't heard that, and Union's website listed it in the same manner as other retailers. Also, if it has truly shut down as of today, then it wasn't open months, it was barely open a month, since I believe it opened December 5th 2017.

Yeah, it's important for proprietors to keep in mind that Union is not Kensington, or Queen West, or King, or the Eaton Centre, even Pearson, or anything like that, it's its own thing. Pilot is fine, there's always going to be lineups for coffee at AM+PM peak even if 10 or 20 places open in...

Cxbo chocolate. I've been in the station midday, at PM peak, and on the weekends. Off peak and on weekends the store was usually empty or had one customer in it. During PM peak, Pilot and Danish Pastry House have frequently had lineups out the door and I have only seen one or two people browsing...

I actually timed the Downsview Park connection with a stopwatch on opening day. Assuming being onboard the accessibility coach, I got a total of 1 minute and 30 seconds to get from the door of the train to the subway platform. I was walking fast, but not quite speedwalking and not running...

Yes, debit/credit/apple pay/google pay tap payment is supposed to come online this year for the TTC. But indeed, that will likely be the $3.25 full cash fare as it currently is on the LFLRVs, and would not be eligible for things like the GO discount or the 2-hour timed transfer. Presto has...

But for midday trains, why not schedule the Barrie trains to arrive/depart when no UPX movement is happening? Midday on the west side of the station you don't have a ton of trains running like rush hour. Departures aren't too bad but the midday arrivals are scheduled to arrive at each XX:33...

I've never heard that. I've only visited the Hamilton a couple of times but it always worked. I believe HSR and Burlington Transit have the same policies as every other GTHA transit agency, which is that if the presto reader is broken, you ride for free--any locals here please correct me if that...

Honestly, even with that limit it is rare for me to take out my physical card. If I'm alone at a restaurant, or splitting a bill, it's under that, and many restaurants' readers are starting to accept tap now. I tend to do small batches of grocery shopping more frequently, so that's usually under...

Wow, can't wait for videos of powered testing. Sounds like it's just a matter of a couple of weeks.

Yes. This is one of my biggest pet peeves with Viva. It's confusing especially when the Viva buses are blue, and that's the name of a line...I can see a visitor to the area or someone not fluent in English seeing a blue Viva bus and thinking oh, that's Viva Blue, or being told to take Viva...

My thoughts exactly. Personally, connecting between GO and the TTC at Union is not something I enjoy, it's a longer walk than at Downsview Park and it's generally fairly crowded even off-peak, and a total zoo during peak. And of course Union TTC is about to enter another round of construction to...

Yeah, and you can program around this in many ways. You can say after (price of metropass / $1.50) trips on GO, you no longer receive the discount, or that once your GO trips are <$1.50 due to capping there is no longer any discount. Much better than just flipping off everybody with a metropass...

Isn't returning the money to the TTC identical, for all intents and purposes, to subsidizing their own service? And how is it different from when you transfer from TTC to GO? When you do that, you pay $3.00 when you tap on TTC then your GO fare is subsidized by $1.50 off whatever it would have...

Issues on the Barrie Line today: Union 12:40 - Aurora 13:29 cancelled at Maple due to medical emergency Aurora 13:41 - Union 14:33 started from Maple due to medical emergency Union 13:40 - Aurora 14:29 cancelled at Maple due to freight train traffic Aurora 14:41 - Union 15:33 started from Maple...