TOtramz
Active Member
Have they shut down testing? I was posing that as a hypothetical question, not as a statement.
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Monarch Butterfly
Superstar
Got the following reply from Doors Open Toronto...
Yet, the Legislative Assembly of Ontario (111 Wellesley St. W. M7A1A2) is part of Doors Open Toronto. See https://www.toronto.ca/explore-enjoy/festivals-events/doors-open-toronto/doors-open-buildings-sites/building-or-site-details/?id=a0jMm000003fQ6TIAU&title=Legislative-Assembly-of-Ontario
(The City of Toronto does not own the Ontario Legislative Building. The land on which it stands, part of Queen's Park, is owned by the Government of Ontario. The City of Toronto manages Queen's Park as part of its city park system. )
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Kyle Campbell
Senior Member
The wire has come down a few times on the O-Train. Maybe there's something about the Citadis that makes it more prone to these incidents
TOtramz
Active Member
How long did it take for Ottawa to get the wires back up and get the line running again?
Kyle Campbell
Senior Member
The case that was closest to this one, where arcing in an ice storm caused severe damage to the wires was 6 days.
The other cases were far shorter, under a day and didn't stop the system, but caused big delays
Natika33
Active Member
Some training cars yesterday:
TOtramz
Active Member
Hopefully if everything is on track they will actually be able to start revenue demonstration in a few weeks 
"This work enabled the TTC to initiate Operator training in Q3 2024, with additional training commenced in Q1 2025 in advance of Revenue Service Demonstration which is currently planned to commence in May."
"The TTC continues its operational readiness planning for revenue service, and is inactive conversations with Metrolinx to refine the actual opening date. The TTC’s operational readiness continues to be on track with training of the various positions that are required to support the operations of Line 5 Eglinton."
Taken from the city planning document from April 16th
"This work enabled the TTC to initiate Operator training in Q3 2024, with additional training commenced in Q1 2025 in advance of Revenue Service Demonstration which is currently planned to commence in May."
"The TTC continues its operational readiness planning for revenue service, and is inactive conversations with Metrolinx to refine the actual opening date. The TTC’s operational readiness continues to be on track with training of the various positions that are required to support the operations of Line 5 Eglinton."
Taken from the city planning document from April 16th
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Allandale25
Senior Member
Hopefully if everything is on track they will actually be able to start revenue demonstration in a few weeks
"This work enabled the TTC to initiate Operator training in Q3 2024, with additional training commenced in Q1 2025 in advance of Revenue Service Demonstration which is currently planned to commence in May."
"The TTC continues its operational readiness planning for revenue service, and is inactive conversations with Metrolinx to refine the actual opening date. The TTC’s operational readiness continues to be on track with training of the various positions that are required to support the operations of Line 5 Eglinton."
Where is this quote from?
Admiral Beez
Superstar
Looks great. I think once this thing is running reliably all of the delays with the longest single transit project in Canadian history, will be forgiven and unfortunately forgotten.... until the next Metrolinx project.
Allandale25
Senior Member
bearcat
Active Member
so is the consensus now that there will be not be enough capacity? what changed?
crs1026
Superstar
Lots of opinions in either direction, but most have lost the thread on the assumptions of the original planning. A lot depends on whether the density along Eglinton has outpaced the original calculations.
The development to date is far from complete. The opening day ridership and the ridership in another decade or two may be two very different scenarios.
Personally I would be a lot more concerned about the line maxxing out in a couple of decades than over the next few years.
- Paul
TOtramz
Active Member
Is the current consensus basically that there are not enough vehicles to run 3-car trains in the currently if capacity is an issue on opening day?
rbt
Senior Member
There's no destinations on Eglinton; meaning the majority of riders will be transferring to another line [meaning Yonge or Spadina]. The available capacity on both Yonge and Spadina is well below the available capacity of Eglinton.
If Yonge/Spadina is crush-loads south of Eglinton from all the transfers then Line 2 will have abundant space as Yonge and St. George stations will be skipped by order of the fire-department due to severe platform over-crowding.
Simply put, Eglinton is not the choke point in the network. In addition, the Ontario Line opening will relieve peak-point Eglinton ridership by intercepting them before they reach the portion near Yonge.
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nfitz
Superstar
There is probably not enough cars to do that.
Because it's completely not necessary.
I don't understand pretending to be an expert and being so ignorant.