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Yes. 1) Where do you see bunching on this photo? 2) Where did I say that bunching could never occur? I specified multiple times in this thread that it can happen as a result of delays or just plain bad management, but the idea that a slow down halfway along the line, which is what we are...

I didn't observe much by way of bunching on day 1 - if anything, the opposite problem existed, with the headways being stretched out far more than they should have been. And the mechanics of why the bunching occurs is extremely important - if the bunching occurs because of incompetent...

There is no reason to assume this will be a regular occurrence, though.

I didn't negate the existence of bunching, anywhere, for any reason - especially not bunching caused by delays - but I was responding to the often flogged concerns about the transition between subway and surface running causing bunching, because of the slowdown in top speeds. How can this...

I mean, sure, you might get the odd slowpoke driver, but that's not going to be an appreciable factor. If it was going to be, we would have seen this on any other line with manual operations. Both subway lines, pre-ATC, were also operated manually, with varying station dwell times, segments with...

There is no one on the planet currently alive who will still be alive when/if any fundamental changes are made to the infrastructure of the east end of the line. How many times does it need to be explained on this forum that bunching will not occur on the surface section? Do you guys think the...

The streetcars may also be more exposed to the elements than the subway, but what percentage of road calls for streetcars are failures due to inclement weather? Maybe in the days of the CLRVs with the air brakes, I could see that being an issue, but I don't see that being exposed to the elements...

Something is incomplete about those MDBF statistics. I can't fathom what it is about subways that makes the TTC expect a much higher MDBF out of them than from anything else; they're still subject to wear, tear, and breakdowns. And the average age of the subway fleet is much higher than that of...

Why would you need to add refuge islands? Surely a much more pragmatic approach to the problem would be merely to position the activation mechanism for TSP far enough away that the current crossing cycle at the upcoming intersection would conclude before the streetcar arrives.

Am I? This is the initial post I responded to: I think it's very easy to interpret this post as saying that keeping these people off the TTC being the only factor that matters. If this is merely a miscommunication then I will eat my words, but that is certainly how I interpreted it, and I think...

But those same people you fear of having a psychotic episode could also attack you in the street, or while you're sitting down on a bench, if they were so inclined, and you don't have your head on a swivel. The TTC is a city agency, and any attempts specifically focused on removing the...

There are no trams to Zličín. The closest tram terminus is a few kilometres over at Sídliště Řepy, and the travel time is supposed to be 23 minutes to Karlovo náměstí, a major exchange point downtown.

I know what you are referring to, but I don't understand how it relates to the current topic of discussion - no part of this discussion is about anyone emphasizing community, mixed-use neighbourhoods, or pedestrian-friendly environments, so this seems like something of a non sequitur. The...

Can you clarify what you mean by this?

Is it? How are things better if you encounter these problems outside of the TTC? Is it okay if you see someone strung out on drugs in a park, or a coffee shop, or a library? How do you propose we do this? Have everyone file on through one door on the Flexity streetcars? We might as well pack...

Normally, it's done at the closest intersection to the division from which the route is dispatched. For reasons that have never been entirely clear to me, every bus driver has to report first to the garage before they actually go relieve their bus on the street, and thus the changeoff point is...

Not inherently, no, but in this case the space could have been filled with a larger text, or at least the sign itself made smaller.

This is the Metrolinx wayfinding standard everyone has been hyping up? Why??? Such a small font and so much dead space.....

The populations of those 3 nations should be slaughtered because their politicians don't support Ukraine? How does thinking this make you a better person than Putin? Once you start holding regular people accountable for every wrong thing their leadership does or thinks, there is no end to the...

No, you're wrong. I have it on very good authority, from people who definitively know all about transit, and may even have travelled elsewhere to see how transit works there, that only LRTs are subject to delays from inclement weather and/or overcautiousness. Whatever you think it is that you...