crs1026
Superstar
On a drive across Eglinton East this morning, I counted seven tramsets out on the line.
They are among us.
- Paul
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On a drive across Eglinton East this morning, I counted seven tramsets out on the line.
They are among us.
- Paul
KevinT
Active Member
That wasn't all Bombardier. My recollection is that for a time they held their deliveries waiting for the Automatic Train Protection equipment to arrive for installation, but the problem was that there wasn't any. The region's plan was to use what the Crosstown used, but the Crosstown hadn't selected it yet. In the end most of the region's trains were delivered without ATP equipment, while the region scrambled to select and source their own. Ultimately most ION trains had their ATP installed in situ at the Operations, Maintenance and Storage Facility. The region never blamed the province directly, you don't bite the hand that feeds you, but the story was there if you read all the articles and connected the dots. Publicly the province was happy to scapegoat Bombardier rather than implicate Metrolinx.
The ION system opened without ATP enabled while debugging continued, it wasn't switched on until a few months later. That's when the mysterious crawls southbound near the end of Waterloo Park and approaching Hayward began, which have never been resolved. My guess (purely a guess!) is that the crawls are related to the signal blocking, and won't change until the track signalling can be physically reconfigured once the initial contract is up and a new one negotiated. ION's ATP doesn't use RFID baluns between the rails for positioning like you see elsewhere, it uses the track signalling.
Monarch Butterfly
Superstar
The Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) estimates that 110 operators will be needed for the Eglinton Crosstown LRT (Line 5), including 95 for regular operations and extra staff for vacations and backfill.
For Metrolinx, 118 people with vice president in their title appeared on the 2024 Sunshine list.
For Metrolinx, 118 people with vice president in their title appeared on the 2024 Sunshine list.
KevinT
Active Member
In general I'd say that the sunshine list is BS because it hasn't been indexed to inflation since its creation, but the fact it reveals that 118 people at a single business entity are considered a VP is both damning and ridiculous.
Coolibop
Active Member
+ Hidden are many of the government employees hired on (ongoing/never ending) contract. Doctors for example are typically self employed contractors and won't show up on the list, even though they are mostly paid by the government and can only be seen though the expense side of the ledger, often hidden.
PL1
Senior Member
Doctors' salaries are ridiculous in how they look large, but really aren't. They get paid fee for service (generally), out of which they need to pay a lot of overhead (office, supplies, admin staff, nursing, etc) plus taxes, plus save for retirement, etc.
drum118
Superstar
The Sunshine list is soooo out of date that it is not funny.
As for Metrolinx, this show how out of touch they are at running a business that is poorly run/operates and should only have 1/10 of those VIP. Even at at 20% would be pushing it.
Those who work the maximum of overtime these days will make the sunshine list these days easy that have high wages in the first place.
This should be in Metrolinx thread.
As for Metrolinx, this show how out of touch they are at running a business that is poorly run/operates and should only have 1/10 of those VIP. Even at at 20% would be pushing it.
Those who work the maximum of overtime these days will make the sunshine list these days easy that have high wages in the first place.
This should be in Metrolinx thread.
TOtramz
Active Member
Anybody got updates on the simulated service testing? Are the running even more train than before?
reinventingthewheel
Active Member
I spent about half an hour on the golden mile today and saw zero trains. There were work vehicles parked at some stops on this stretch with a small crew at each. What they were doing can only be described as blocking traffic.
EYorker
New Member
I took another drive along Eglinton on Friday afternoon around 4 PM westbound from Kennedy to Brentcliffe.
I saw only 3 trains, all heading eastbound. One at Thermos Rd. One at Warden. And the third was parked in the pocket track near Sloane, which proceeded dead slow out of the pocket to head east. There was also a S&B car parked near Leslie, and there were two workers fiddling with the Presto fare machines on the platform there.
T3G
Senior Member
For heaven's sake, it's only been a week since the simulated testing was supposed to start, and it was already mentioned in here that the operators need to undergo a refresher before this can actually occur! Start panicking in a couple of weeks if nothing has changed.
I'm all for some good old fashioned doom and glooming, but some of you really take it way too far.
I'm all for some good old fashioned doom and glooming, but some of you really take it way too far.
TOtramz
Active Member
reinventingthewheel
Active Member
There is no panicking, nor any exaggeration whatsoever in these most recent posts. All facts and reasonable questions. Please get over yourself.
This doesn’t warrant what you’re apologizing for, though your requests for updates are a bit excessive. Expect new information to be shared as it’s observed.
TOtramz
Active Member
I deleted the comment that T3G was responding to because it was way too hyperbolic and not well thought out.
Northern Light
Superstar
The Mayor will be at a press conference in the morning with the provincial Transportation Minister.
It will be somewhere along Eglinton....
It will be somewhere along Eglinton....