[TwoWheelPoli]

My source for the Line6 update is from inside the TTC. Cannot post the official notice here unfortunately.

I’m sure the media will get the notice for the morning news.

It's been publicly shared on Reddit already.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TTC/comments/1ni1k7s/line_6_finch_lrt_update

 

[Monarch Butterfly]

It's been publicly shared on Reddit already.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TTC/comments/1ni1k7s/line_6_finch_lrt_update

Do they accept humans as "crash test dummies" for the "service demonstration"?

 

[nfitz]

Do they accept humans as "crash test dummies" for the "service demonstration"?

A good question is how do they simulate weight during service demonstration? I've seen sandbags on TTC Flexity cars - one car at a time, for testing. But that seems like a lot of sand for an entire fleet.

 

[smallspy]

I mean if the CSR's are part of a RSD it seems to imply that the operators will be. Can't really do a RSD with just CSRs, what would that even consist of.

There are lots and lots of tasks that the CSAs will be doing that the operators will be not. For one, they need to know the layout of every stop and station top to bottom. They need to know where supplies can be found in a pinch. Where the water taps are located. Escalator and elevator switches. The list goes on.

Now yes, there are fewer of them on the Finch West line, and their tasks will be somewhat minimal in many cases considering that most of the stops are quite simple shelters and platforms. But they still need their training to know where everything is, and how to access it, and they need to be around to perform their tasks. In a way, the RSD is the final stage of their training, as they may have gotten some quick on-site and classroom training earlier, but have not needed to use those skills until now.

The operators have been running various stress tests on Finch West, but they haven't yet started the RSD. The hope is that will start soon, although no date has been announced as yet.

A good question is how do they simulate weight during service demonstration? I've seen sandbags on TTC Flexity cars - one car at a time, for testing. But that seems like a lot of sand for an entire fleet.

Similar bags filled with water, usually.

Dan

 

[innsertnamehere]

There are lots and lots of tasks that the CSAs will be doing that the operators will be not. For one, they need to know the layout of every stop and station top to bottom. They need to know where supplies can be found in a pinch. Where the water taps are located. Escalator and elevator switches. The list goes on.

Now yes, there are fewer of them on the Finch West line, and their tasks will be somewhat minimal in many cases considering that most of the stops are quite simple shelters and platforms. But they still need their training to know where everything is, and how to access it, and they need to be around to perform their tasks. In a way, the RSD is the final stage of their training, as they may have gotten some quick on-site and classroom training earlier, but have not needed to use those skills until now.

The operators have been running various stress tests on Finch West, but they haven't yet started the RSD. The hope is that will start soon, although no date has been announced as yet.


Similar bags filled with water, usually.

Dan

Finch West LRT about to enter final test, could open to public next month - Toronto | Globalnews.ca

Provincial transit agency Metrolinx, which has led the construction and testing of the line, confirmed the final stage of tests would commence in the 'coming days.'

globalnews.ca

I mean Metrolinx itself seems to be confirming it now..

 

[micheal_can]

They can also use water barrels/bladders to simulate riders.

 

[JBR]

In fairness, that is for the CSRs, not the operators.

Dan

Operators will be starting the demonstration also.
Source: a Finch LRT operator

 

[Monarch Butterfly]

Operators will be starting the demonstration also.
Source: a Finch LRT operator

At least they are just demonstrating and not rioting.

 

[Cyrobyte]

Is Metrolinx still going to announce the opening date three months in advance like they said they were a year ago?

 

[Amare]

Is Metrolinx still going to announce the opening date three months in advance like they said they were a year ago?

That "promise" is no longer in play.

 

[A 6264]

That "promise" is no longer in play.

Was the <<"promise">> officially rescinded?

 

[Amare]

Was the <<"promise">> officially rescinded?

It's Metrolinx, do you think they would actually honour that kind of promise, especially after Verster left? I dont even think they even remember it themselves.

 

[Thaboss]

Was the <<"promise">> officially rescinded?

A reporter asked, either at scarboroughs subway annoucment last week or the press conference before and basically the new ceo said, "the line will open when it is safe to do so".

Essentially the 3 month thing left the building when Phil did.

 

[ARG1]

Great Scott, are people really posting at 3 and 4 in the morning? I see at least four examples just on this page.

Gotta wonder if the website's clock and/or time zone are set incorrectly. Are people on the far side of the world that interested in Toronto transit? Or is the real reason for all the 'priestly prognostications' be simple sleeplessness?

Hey, not all of us are blessed enough to not be plagued by insomnia that lets us end up on this site to pass the time, before we're inevitably taken away by our sleep paralysis demon.

 

[A 6264]

Hey, not all of us are blessed enough to not be plagued by insomnia that lets us end up on this site to pass the time, before we're inevitably taken away by our sleep paralysis demon.

""sleep paralysis demon" - a vivid, often terrifying hallucination of a threatening presence—like a shadowy figure (definition from Google AI summary)
No, it's just that reading "line 5 opening date still unknown" every day for 5 years, is making me nod off.