rbt
Senior Member
The real time suckers are King, Queen, Dundas, Bloor/Yonge, Eglinton and Sheppard.
My train stops only at Finch, Summerhill, and Union please.
Last edited:
|
|
|
Transit City Plan
- Thread starter 299 bloor call control.
- Start date
The real time suckers are King, Queen, Dundas, Bloor/Yonge, Eglinton and Sheppard.
My train stops only at Finch, Summerhill, and Union please.
GraphicMatt
Looking forward to a FRESH START for Toronto
I was thinking that maybe they should build giant right-of-ways down the Don Valley and across the Gardiner and let everyone operate their own mini-bus that only stops according to the individual operator's needs.
SlickFranky
Active Member
OOh...I like that. Very innovative! Sort of a custom, private, express route! They could even set up waiting zones, where the vehicles could sit near your office in a designated spot (maybe even in a garage?), and a similar setup at your home.
Justin10000
Banned
The hell with the driver! The driver would probably be unionized! Screw the driver! I'll just drive the bus myself!
M II A II R II K
Senior Member
Even if the LRTs drove themselves there would still be a driver just sitting there, with their bowls of soup.
W. K. Lis
Superstar
Security for the G20: $1+ Billion
Cuts to Transit City: $4 Billion
Total cost of hosting the G20: priceless
Which would be of benefit to the taxpayer: Transit City, you would have thought. But it seems that the G20 is more important.
Cuts to Transit City: $4 Billion
Total cost of hosting the G20: priceless
Which would be of benefit to the taxpayer: Transit City, you would have thought. But it seems that the G20 is more important.
Last edited:
kEiThZ
Superstar
Different pots of money. The federal government's job is foreign relations, not transit construction in Toronto. If that $1 billion was not spent on the G20, you can guarantee it would not have ended up with the provinces. Nor would it have impacted the $4 billion cut from the province.
That's not to say I agree with spending $1 billion on hosting the conference....but that's the cost of hosting such an event in the downtown core of a major city. And the city does get some economic benefit out of it (and some minor infrastructure too I believe like better comms equipment, TTC surveillance, etc.). If they are going to do it (and it was Canada' s turn to host the G20), I'd rather they waste a billion in Toronto than elsewhere.
ssiguy2
Senior Member
Impossible. The streetcars will have to stop at all stops because, as in any "rapid" transit system people will not be pulling the cord to let the driver know that someone wants to get off. It will ahve to stop at every stop and with TC that's about 2 to 3 blocks.
Voltz
Senior Member
They have already said the lines would operate on request stop.
SlickFranky
Active Member
That's impossible....you must be wrong, or they must be lying.
Voltz
Senior Member
They did, although it was a long time ago, things can always change. I would assume that the surface sections would at least be on request,
fanoftoronto
Active Member
What's wrong with request stop being used on TC? Anyhow, the tunnels can't operate like that, but the surface is logical to have request stop.
EnviroTO
Senior Member
I don't understand the impossibility. How hard would it be to have stop request buttons? VIA Rail has some stops on request. I don't think there would be many stops that would get passed though since a large vehicle holds more people which means increased chances that someone on the vehicle will use the stop.
SlickFranky
Active Member
Me neither, but the monorail guy said it was impossible, so...
GraphicMatt
Looking forward to a FRESH START for Toronto
I don't think any of us are in any position to doubt the monorail guy.