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A 6264 said:
It looks to me like there are 2 groups of people running things. One group is getting fed up, like the rest of us, and wants the line opened. The other group is saying, oh no, oh dear, we're too scared, we could never work up the courage to open this line, not now, not ever.
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My take as an outsider: TTC was promised a new line with all kinds of wonderful properties appropriate for the 21st century. Automated control, great capacity, high frequency, ... Now the line has been built and it turns out that those promises were more like a sales pitch than hard commitments. So of course TTC is reluctant to accept responsibility for operating a substandard service. But at some point they will have to accept that a substandard service is better than no service, and make best out of the hand they have been dealt.
 
pleaseLRT said:
Noticed today that all the fencing around Don Valley station has been removed. There used to be fences directly in front of each entrance; now all gone

Also, the signage for Don Valley station's entrance was updated around 2 weeks ago. Now includes the Line 5 logo and mentions the elevator. Not sure how many station entrances have similar signage to Don Valley
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This is good to see, I always thought the lack of the Line 5 bullets above the station entrances was an odd and stupid decision, especially considering they are featured at Line 1, 2 and 4 stations. Hopefully a sign that the ever-changing MX "design standards" are incorporating some common sense and they make this change at the other L5 stations and Humber College and Finch West on Line 6.
 
pleaseLRT said:
Noticed today that all the fencing around Don Valley station has been removed. There used to be fences directly in front of each entrance; now all gone

Also, the signage for Don Valley station's entrance was updated around 2 weeks ago. Now includes the Line 5 logo and mentions the elevator. Not sure how many station entrances have similar signage to Don Valley
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That's the new signage standard for accessible routes. It's more informative and inclusive than the standard accessible symbol.
 
kai said:
Some testing this evening. Walked from Don Valley to Kennedy between about 6:30 pm to 7:45 pm. Trains were going by non-stop, in a couple cases less than a minute apart, but more like a few minutes.
Screenshots below with timestamps of each clip for anyone curious. (Started rolling as each train was very close, not from a long distance).

Also saw a couple people crossing over the tracks, one driver leaned on the horn for quite a long time and had to slow down a bit.



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Westbound

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Decent speed it seems
 
The latest Line 5 delay just dropped... at Golden Mile Station this evening... (a friend of mine sent me this).

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That shouldn't take long to clear.

I'm not sure why there isn't a health application of red paint here - on the westbound tracks, from the dashed turning line to round where the concrete drops down.

(looking east at Warden)
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hw621 said:
So it begins.
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It's been like this for years - I don't think cars getting stuck have been that common!
 
nfitz said:
That shouldn't take long to clear.

I'm not sure why there isn't a health application of red paint here - on the westbound tracks, from the dashed turning line to round where the concrete drops down.

(looking east at Warden)
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It's been like this for years - I don't think cars getting stuck have been that common!
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They won’t see the red paint anyways in this weather. Especially if they can tell that the roadway drops a foot with tracks on top.
 
thettctransitfanatic said:
The latest Line 5 delay just dropped... at Golden Mile Station this evening... (a friend of mine sent me this).

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Just wait until a car hits one of those video screens that drivers use to position the LRVs. That's when the real fun will begin with mass delays to operations.

Good thing Metrolinx thought about that while designing the line, oh wait....
 
Amare said:
Just wait until a car hits one of those video screens that drivers use to position the LRVs. That's when the real fun will begin with mass delays to operations.

Good thing Metrolinx thought about that while designing the line, oh wait....
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And TTC would close the line for two days to investigate...
 
Steve X said:
They won’t see the red paint anyways in this weather. Especially if they can tell that the roadway drops a foot with tracks on top.
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I would have thought the whole driving into oncoming traffic would have been a clue.

It's really a mystery how some people got a licence in the first place
 
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