TTC: Other Items (catch all)

[W. K. Lis]

The streetcars and subway cars have deadman controls, or sifa (see link). What do the buses have?

 

[TheTigerMaster]

The streetcars and subway cars have deadman controls, or sifa (see link). What do the buses have?

They have a truck. You put a truck in front of a moving bus, and the truck will stop the bus. The system worked exactly as planned in the "ghost bus" video.

 

[nrb]

The fares went up on Monday - do you really expect to see new buses on the street with new drivers hired by Wednesday?

Considering that Byford literally said "the improvements will be felt immediately" when this was released to the press yes I do.

Obviously there is a plan already with the service changes. It's not complicated to add buses to routes and change schedules, and they've had months to do it.

 

[Johnny Au]

Well, they've already started rolling out the self-driving buses ...

[video=youtube;k6-IHGDJr_s]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6-IHGDJr_s[/video]

It is a prototype bus using technology reversed-engineered from Google (because the TTC can't afford the real thing).

 

[APTA-2048]

New wall panels have gone up at York Mills Station. They are similar to those at St. Andrew except in green. Kind of gives an idea of what King Station used to look like.

 

[TheTigerMaster]

It's been renamed to "Yo Station". I like it. It's... Unique.

 

[smallspy]

Obviously there is a plan already with the service changes. It's not complicated to add buses to routes and change schedules, and they've had months to do it.

It's very complicated when they don't have enough buses for rush hour service every day.

Dan
Toronto, Ont.

 

[nrb]

It's very complicated when they don't have enough buses for rush hour service every day.

Dan
Toronto, Ont.

Perhaps they should not have promised so much while hiking fares then.

 

[innsertnamehere]

they were pretty clear that the new service will be coming later in the year once they have more buses online to actually add the service.

 

[nfitz]

Perhaps they should not have promised so much while hiking fares then.

The operating budget that was released in January was pretty clear when service would change.

It's no secret that they aren't any more buses available for peak. But we will see some immediate impacts. Already child fares are gone. And they've already announced off-peak service changes and increased peak subway service in the next board that starts later this month.

Still, I'm not sure how one expects increases in rush hour bus service, given they are already don't have enough buses to run all the service, because of the Ford/Stintz screw-up.

 

[TheTigerMaster]

Behind the scenes at the TTC training facilities: http://www.blogto.com/tech/2015/03/behind_the_scenes_at_the_ttc_training_facility/

 

[TheTigerMaster]

Behind the scenes at the TTC training facilities: http://www.blogto.com/tech/2015/03/behind_the_scenes_at_the_ttc_training_facility/

The man-child in me would love to be able to try out that Flexity simulator for a day. I've been itching to be able to drive a streetcar since I was a toddler.

 

[BurlOak]

Its on a track so all you can do is go forward. I have done something similar years ago when I visited centre island.

 

[smallspy]

The man-child in me would love to be able to try out that Flexity simulator for a day. I've been itching to be able to drive a streetcar since I was a toddler.

Volunteer with the HCRY. One of the many things that they need volunteers for is to operate the streetcars.

Dan
Toronto, Ont.

 

[CDL.TO]

From Brad Ross:

https://twitter.com/bradTTC/status/575011516694589440

Check out the latest #TTC Ride Guide cover! Called "Gears," it's the creation Toronto artist Runt.

I think this is a great! The TTC used to do more of this in the past and London has a great tradition of supporting local artists by having them create posters. Hopefully we see more of this in the future!