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Creating this one full-system map with the station lights for all lines was an interesting move, as I guess the same one will be deployed on all subway and LRT vehicles (eventually?). So all the lights not on your current line will just stay unlit? Will Line 2 will be getting these as well? Up until now they have always just had maps with no lights or movement indication. I thought that had to do with the tech on those older cars though.
Because the LED boards were seemingly designed to make the system seem more expansive than it is.
I guess the lesson with Finch is that even with so many years of delays, the opening can still be rushed. To paraphrase Dirk Gently, rather than arriving five years late and flustered, it would be better all around if the LRT were to arrive five years and a few extra month late, but triumphantly in command.
TTC and Metrolinx battle over Eglinton Crosstown LRT date at tense private meeting | Globalnews.ca
Multiple sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed that there was a plan by Metrolinx and the Ministry of Transportation to open the line in the last week of December.globalnews.ca
Looking like Feb 8th
Line 4 was always roughly geographically correct to Line 2. It's really Line 5 (a new addition to the map) and the eastern end of Line 2 that messes it up. And they probably didn't even think to fix that.
Line 4 actually does go that far compared to Line 2. Don Mills is just about at Woodbine.
On the flipside its equally detrimental to be OCD and paranoid on every last specific detail like NASA is with their rocket preparations in order to mitigate political embarrassment just like whats happening right now. The public understands if mistakes or bugs happen, they just need to be transparent about it, have the drive to and have a plan to fix it promptly.
So meet down the middle and open mid Jan?TTC and Metrolinx battle over Eglinton Crosstown LRT date at tense private meeting | Globalnews.ca
Multiple sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed that there was a plan by Metrolinx and the Ministry of Transportation to open the line in the last week of December.
Looking like Feb 8th
This meeting took place on Dec 5, 2 days before Line 6's opening and subsequent backlashTTC and Metrolinx battle over Eglinton Crosstown LRT date at tense private meeting | Globalnews.ca
Multiple sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed that there was a plan by Metrolinx and the Ministry of Transportation to open the line in the last week of December.
Looking like Feb 8th
To the extent there is a "problem" that still needs to be fixed before opening, it's not so much the safety or infrastructure side of things (that's table stakes), it's the political risk of opening a second line with absurdly slow operating speeds. I presume most people are going to expect the LRT to reach subway-like speeds in the tunnels, and if they're crawling along at 20/30 kmh, I think there's going to be a lot of anger
If the trains on line 5 travel at "Streetcar" speeds in the underground portion, it will be the death knell for this line. It'll also be the end for low floor LRTs in Toronto. It'll just confirm in everyone's mind that a subway should have been built along Eglinton.
A years delayed line is an operational disaster. The PR is already so bad. Of course they want it to go perfectly, but that will never happen. They need to open the line. They have had enough time.
Trading incompetence at the municipal level for incompetence at the provincial level is not going to work. The people at the management level of the TTC and Metrolinx have no idea what they’re doing. They don’t listen to their passengers or their front line workers.
