Aplus23
Active Member
What go line is that station on
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nfitz
Superstar
Kitchener - between Weston and Bloor. They've also built a new UP platform there, and I think the current plan is that all UP trains will stop here in addition to the two other stops.
mburrrrr
Senior Member
It looks like the paint was scratched on 6273. (New or old scratch?) Picture taken at 4:47 pm yesterday. I’m not sure what happened. There is only one legal turn/crossing at this intersection. NB Credit Union to WB Eglinton.
Picture looking south from Swift Dr.
nfitz
Superstar
That seems to be what the Toronto Fire 7-vehicle response was about. But it is a bit odd for a relatively minor collision. Perhaps 9-1-1 didn't fully understand what had happened. Perhaps someone said there was a collision between a subway train and a car ... Better safe than sorry.
Toronto Fire is often the first responder for medical emergencies, as they have a lot of excess capacity at times (for good reason!), so dealing with smaller emergency calls is a good use of their time. And they can often get their quicker than paramedics, and have resuscitation gear, etc., until the person can be transported. And there's a level of physical strength that can be useful in a medical emergency as well, which isn't as common with paramedics. I've seen paramedics arrive shortly after Toronto Fire for a strictly medical emergency before, and Toronto Fire left once the patient was being prepped for transport.
Monarch Butterfly
Superstar
They may have to toll the LRV to the nearest Collision Reporting Centre.
After all, a light rail vehicle is a "vehicle" under the MTO regulations, like streetcars were since 1990. Before 1990 regulation change, it would be considered a "street railway", and as a "railway", it would not only have the right-of-way and the other vehicle would automatically be at fault,
But seriously, the police would have to come to the scene, since the LRV cannot go to the Collision Reporting Centre.
toraerach
Active Member
You can really see in this photo how the grey/white colour scheme blends into the streetscape. I really wish they'd gone with something more colourful for aesthetic reasons, but I wonder if there might have been a road safety benefit as well (not that the red on our streetcars prevents accidents completely).
TropicalPenguin
New Member
Are there plans to paint these trains in the same TTC colourway, which we see on the streetcars?
drum118
Superstar
No as ML own the cars and want their own colours to keep them separate from other systems colours. Finch and Hurontario cars are the same colour as Eglinton.
TTC is only operates the line under a 5 year contract at this time in place of the original of having X doing it as per the bid contract track Same goes for Finch with Hurontario going with X.
zang
Senior Member
Because reckless and bad driving has increased since the pandemic.
New data reveal reckless driving has increased post-pandemic
While traffic accidents and fatalities increased during the pandemic, new data show that drivers are now also more reckless than pre-COVID.
insurancenewsnet.com
Driving habits post pandemic are "getting more dangerous"
Travelers Institute president points to need for better education and rewards for safer driving
www.insurancebusinessmag.com
And if the insurance industry thinks it's a problem, you know it's real.
Cambry Ardship
Active Member
Both of those links are american and the trajectory for road safety in Canada is not the same.
Here's a very recent article about the divergence in outcomes: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...ing-in-different-directions-on-traffic-safety.
Here's a very recent article about the divergence in outcomes: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...ing-in-different-directions-on-traffic-safety.
T3G
Senior Member
^ you wouldn't realize that to be the case at all if you stand around any random intersection in Toronto for 5 minutes. If you told me they were handing out driver's licenses like a free giveaway, I would have no reason to doubt you.
PurplePinky
Active Member
I’m concerned about these ‘cars’ aging and rusting out while the drivers continue to do practice runs.
This has been going on for quite some time, I’d like to think they could now be filled with passengers.
Many bus stops have been shut down and the public has been waiting far too long.
Let’s go folks, way past time to open the LRT.
This has been going on for quite some time, I’d like to think they could now be filled with passengers.
Many bus stops have been shut down and the public has been waiting far too long.
Let’s go folks, way past time to open the LRT.
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Northern Light
Superstar
That's a very good piece, thanks for posting.
I would offer that something I found noteworthy is that while Canada's stats are tracking favourably vs the U.S. we're still only middle-of-the-pack when comparing to a wider range of OECD countries.
So the piece really indicates, Canada is doing ok, a bit better than in the past, but its not outstanding, where the U.S. is really bottom-of-the-barrel in traffic safety.
toonderly
Active Member
What on earth purpose does this serve? I can understand GO branding being different from the TTC because there is a fare difference issue and it benefits the public to be aware of it. But in this scenario where the LRT is part of the TTC network and the public should be able to treat it as such it feels like marking it as different can only lead to confusion.
kev1n1m
Active Member
Not sure where you heard this, but you generally know everything drum. I read (from Metrolinx, early in the process of building Line 5) that the grey was chosen to match higher-order transit, specifically the Line 1 Toronto Rockets. This doesn't really hold the test of time (like everything Metrolinx does) because the Line 3 trains and the new Line 2 trains will all sport color to some degree, albeit not as much as the CLRV or SRT cars.