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GenerationLee
Senior Member
Unfortunately, the road resurfacing on Eglinton from Keele to Mount Pleasant will happen without bike lanes per this construction notice.
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If you want to raise some hell on this, I prepared an action alert on my blog.
It’s Time to Demand Accountability for Eglinton
A blog about cycling and political advocacy based in Toronto, Canada. (#BikeTO)www.twowheeledpolitics.ca
This genuinely angers me. It's a no brainer to put bike lanes here, when we should be discouraging drivers from using Eglinton, improve the cycle network that's already strengthened in this area due to the Beltine, and encourage more people to bike along said network.
Plus, this reconstruction project makes it so that there's much less hassle adding in bike lanes, rather than closing off lanes whenever the city possibly does add bike lanes here (which frankly, I dont see happening for a long long time, if ever)
I live closeby, and would be much more likely to cycle with this project. (but heck, I won't, not with construction still everywhere in this part of town)
smallspy
Senior Member
I'm not so sure that there's "nothing happening" when it comes to the bike lanes.Unfortunately, the road resurfacing on Eglinton from Keele to Mount Pleasant will happen without bike lanes per this construction notice.
View attachment 677360
If you want to raise some hell on this, I prepared an action alert on my blog.
It’s Time to Demand Accountability for Eglinton
A blog about cycling and political advocacy based in Toronto, Canada. (#BikeTO)
New signals were installed a couple of weeks ago at Eglinton and Redpath - and in them there include some new phases which the current roadway configuration can not support.
It may not be the optimum solution, but it sure looks to my eye that they will be introducing painted bike lanes on Eglinton in this section at the least. Once the repaving is done, of course.
Dan
MegaSea
New Member
Blame Olivia Chow, she said "support" public transit
So she should to force open Line 5 before 2026 World Cup, to prove toronto still is "world-class" city
So she should to force open Line 5 before 2026 World Cup, to prove toronto still is "world-class" city
drum118
Superstar
Who said there are to be no bike lanes on Eglinton between Keele and Mount Pleasant?? There are some in various place now, but there are places there is no room to do it. One needs to travel that route by car transit and cycle it as well walk it it to see it first hand. I don't cycle anymore as it has become more dangerous to do so the last 15 years and you need bike lanes but a great cost. One needs to look at street width to see if a lane can be put there in the first place, but more so does the Province have the authority to say no which is now heading to the Supreme Court say yes or no. Why should the city spend money at this time to put in lanes now to only have to remove them if the Supreme Court said yes the Province can say no to bike lanes??
There are bike lanes on Eglinton outside of that map area now and were built during the construction of the Line 5.
There are bike lanes on Eglinton outside of that map area now and were built during the construction of the Line 5.
T3G
Senior Member
She has zero authority to do that.
SaugeenJunction
Senior Member
Was at Sloane/Eglinton for a while around noon, no trains testing. The green track is also getting really overgrown, they need to cut it.
dowlingm
Senior Member
TTC bosses presumably didn’t have access to a time machine like yours did.
The only other bosses who successfully get demands for things “yesterday” are the ones too clueless to realize their team is getting things done despite their “guidance” but assuming they are bone lazy.
Have I used “yesterday”? Sure: in answer to “when is this expected by the powers that be” I have been known to answer “Yesterday, but that’s not happening, so let’s talk about what would prevent it being done today/this week”
As for the Chair, all he seems to be doing there is perpetuating the same old nonsense. If we are past the point where service can be turned on, and he knows that, he should answer “no, we are not close enough yet” to a query about service being possible in September. If he doesn’t know, he should say “I don’t know, but the commission will follow up with you to ensure you are giving people accurate expectations through your paper/channel”. But given the situation TTC is in, he should know if it’s already a hard no without having to check
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dowlingm
Senior Member
I don’t think China would care for another round of how their countrymen built the Canadian railroads.
Even setting aside the grim historical comparator, if we can’t manage having Deutsche Bahn run GO trains, we’re not building transit using contemporary Chinese norms
Northern Light
Superstar
I'm sure this is an old one that's been posted before, but it just appeared in my social feed and made me smile:
Did not see a credit.
Did not see a credit.
urbancog
Active Member
The image suggests the delay is due to the line being converted to maglev.
marko16
New Member
Eglinton Crosstown in the year 2200 be like:
LRT vehicles fly between Pearson airport and Mount Dennis (west extension is still under construction). Then they go under ground into maglev mode between Mount Dennis and Laird (rails had to be removed they were all 1mm misaligned). Then they go above ground into rail mode between Laird and Kennedy and proceed to stop at every traffic light.
LRT vehicles fly between Pearson airport and Mount Dennis (west extension is still under construction). Then they go under ground into maglev mode between Mount Dennis and Laird (rails had to be removed they were all 1mm misaligned). Then they go above ground into rail mode between Laird and Kennedy and proceed to stop at every traffic light.
Jonny5
Senior Member
Deustche Bahn seems to have much troubles of its own lately. Their CEO was fired a few weeks ago.
This all sounds very familiar, doesn't it?
Germany’s train chaos: How did Deutsche Bahn go off the rails? - Monocle
Germany’s railways are in crisis. Trains run late, tracks crumble and management looks away. Rail expert Christian Böttger explains how...
monocle.com
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Rainforest
Senior Member
Deustche Bahn seems to have much troubles of its own lately. Their CEO was fired a few weeks ago.
This all sounds very familiar, doesn't it?
Germany’s train chaos: How did Deutsche Bahn go off the rails? - Monocle
Germany’s railways are in crisis. Trains run late, tracks crumble and management looks away. Rail expert Christian Böttger explains how...
It is true that they need to sort out their own mess, before we can ask them to fix ours.
That said, their rail is still a lot more usable than our rail. Over there, the locals are annoyed when their train is late or cancelled; they remember the times when everything was much more reliable. But if you are a tourist or a business visitor, you can still use DB for a lot of trips. Just add more padding to your schedule.
Over here? A lot of places have no train service at all, or no train connection you need. Even if you are lucky to have a train that connects your origin and destination, those trains are so rare they hardly fit anyone's schedule. Unless you are commuting for work to/from Toronto downtown (then you have a half-decent frequency on some of the lines) or travelling within the Corridor, you can't really use our trains for pretty much anything, even if they run perfectly on time.
Thaboss
Active Member
Ding ding ding.
No transit system is perfect.
I hear pll in singapore, the netherlands, paris, Tokyo etc. Complain all the damn time. So yea if you're interested in hiring expertise from only perfect systems in this world you'll be looking for a ling time.
Ontarios problem atm isn’t creating perfection, its creating a good system..
db is perfectly suitable for that, if given the right tools and time. Anyway. There's no point in rehashing this subject. Metrolinx is moving on and nothing we say or do is going to turn back the clocks on that decision.
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