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Andy Byford and Brad Ross did the ice bucket challenge!
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https://twitter.com/GraphicMatt/status/505018359273238528council votes against deferring the new bus garage. 12-27.
Pasternak suggests maybe the TTC won't need new buses anyway.
Yup.Councillor McMahon calls this issue "almost the worst kind of NIMBYism."
Pasternak suggests maybe the TTC won't need new buses anyway.
Council approves the bus garage project report, so it'll go forward. 32-8.
Rob Ford, Ainslie, Kelly, Lee, Nunziata, Pasternak, Shiner, and Thompson.
The shortage of buses on the TTC network is now severe enough that several routes will revert to their summer schedules to save vehicles
City of Toronto Transportation Services has been standing in the way of signal priority for years. It's about time the TTC started making noise about this issue. Its outrageous that streetcars with 100+ people on them have to wait to cross an intersection that often nobody uses.St. Clair Transit Signal Priority
The signal priority on St. Clair is not working in so many locations that the TTC must adjust schedules to provide more running time for the streetcars. Up to 8 minutes of additional round-trip time will be added to the schedules, and headways will be widened to accommodate this.
This is a perfect example of how capital spending — provision of a transit right-of-way — can be sabotaged by operational decisions, in this case by a separate agency — City Transportation Services — regarding the priority of keeping TSP working.
http://stevemunro.ca/?p=10172
City of Toronto Transportation Services has been standing in the way of signal priority for years. It's about time the TTC started making noise about this issue. Its outrageous that streetcars with 100+ people on them have to wait to cross an intersection that often nobody uses.
Especially with LRT coming. Are we honestly going to accept having this problem on the Crosstown?
St. Clair & Spadina need full signal priority at every intersection, except in extreme cases where headways get very tight. City Council needs to order Transportation Service to shut up and do it.
Eglinton at-grade is not comparable at all to St Clair or Spadina, and to be honest, I don't even think signal priority will be needed on Eglinton east for it to go pretty fast.
The reason is that many of the intersections on Eglinton East give Eglinton the green light 90% of the time. They are often intersections with very minor roads or entrances into big box shopping centre parking lots, so Eglinton being a major road gets green most of the time. You can easily see this if you drive on Eglinton late at night when there's no traffic (to simulate an LRT since it will have it's own lane).