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Looks like YRT is installing new displays at VIVA stops. Unfortunately these seem to already be unreliable - these two pictures were taken at 4:24, one of the displays is stuck at 2:38 pm. The displays appear to be e-ink/e-paper based on the way they refresh. The choice to use 24 hour time and...

https://www.newmarkettoday.ca/local-news/whats-going-up-after-years-in-works-newmarket-rental-development-underway-8817422 looks like they got moving after my previous post (#24)

YRT has released their 2025 service initiatives. Pretty substantial service increase, with major frequency improvements, new on demand services, and new school specials. Unfortunately YRT remains allergic to clock face scheduling and timing buses for GO trains...

The exhaust could be potable!

I'm sure this would be a good choice if we had infinite money, but unfortunately, that's not the world we live in.

They dropped the ball on the UP Express screen. They didn't even include a minute countdown to the next train - hell, YRT gets this right! Imagine if you got to a VIVA stop and the dot matrix display was showing "viva blue - Newmarket Term - 11:34", "viva blue - Newmarket Term - 11:42", "viva...

Hydrogen is a technology best suited for situations where energy needs to be portable. Not sure why we are spending any amount of money developing a technology that is 20% efficient when we can have one that is 75% efficient, easier to use, and already exists.

This is completely nonsensical and leaving it up to the fare inspector's discretion is not an appropriate solution either. How can we push for change? Is YRT accountable to York Regional Council?

Considering the TTC allows you to finish your trip if your transfer expires within the fare-paid zone, one could feasibly travel from Davis and Yonge, transfer to Line 1 at Finch, and then stay within the fare-paid zone and head to Kipling with a transfer at Bloor-Yonge. Edit: with a bus...

They are planning for that, and it is even mentioned in the Transit Initiatives PDF that customers have requested they service EG GO with curbside Viva stops. Unfortunately, YRT seems to just be a massive sloth - only moving ever so slowly.

The project website (https://www.redwoodonyonge.ca/) went from 403 Forbidden as of January 10 to "Website Expired" as of January 13. According to the Wayback Machine, the last archive where the website displayed content was in April of 2022.

That might be hard to enforce, and on certain ebike models, be a pain to do. Some ebikes need to be folded to access the battery, which takes a considerable amount of force and space to do. The better solution is what has been suggested - provide overnight storage with the condition that...

It is honestly appalling to me as a YR resident to see Brampton Züm provide better service on Highway 7 than Viva Orange does. Truly insane and embarrassing. I'm glad I don't have to rely on Viva Orange, but one must feel bad for everyone east of VMC. Millions spent on rapidways, only for 12...

According to the Mx wayfinding standards (page 46 of the pdf, 38 in the content), this is a pedestrian totem and is meant to identify the location of the entrance, as well as include a map for local wayfinding (à la TO360). The pedestrian lollipop is meant to simply identify the location of an...

The solution here is to strictly regulate battery and e-bike imports and sales. Banning e-bikes on trains is nothing but a knee-jerk reaction which does nothing to solve the actual problem. People with bad e-bike batteries will still be at risk at home or on the street. A government initiative...

Why would we intentionally want to hamper ourselves because the status quo sucks? This is completely nonsensical. It doesn't matter that the current signs are shit. We chose an objectively worse technology because what, "they might do something a little bad with it"? Metrolinx already has...

The TTC signs are bad right now, but at least they can be changed if anyone bothered to lift a finger. The Metrolinx signs will stay like that until they are replaced. It's like trying to argue the dot-matrix displays on the TTC buses were better/the same as the new screens because the new...

Just call them by their numbers. There is no value in having unique names for everything, have you ever heard a normal, regular person call Line 1 "Yonge-University-Spadina Line"? Most of the time people use "Line 1" or "Line 2" anyways.

No, the larger signals are 12" signals, with 8" yellow and green indications. Nowadays, we don't see the size differentiation because they just exclusively use 12" signals, so cost doesn't apply here. I believe this is for visibility concerns.