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McGillicuddy said:
I don't object to people sharing information and talking about lessons learned.

I object to "Me! I, predicted this! Me, a unique genius! And none of you listened! You didn't appreciate my insight! No, no, you said foolish things like 'put down the knife' and 'you are frightening the other passengers'! But I was right! Like Copernicus, like Darwin, like Courtney Love, history has borne me out, and I am now here to collect!"

Give it time. You'll see.
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You're talking about me, aren't you. I apologize.
 
Saxe: I want to go back to the automatic braking. I mean having ridden the TTC for many decades, I think only once in my entire life, have I been in a vehicle that lurched to an immediate, sudden stop, where people would fall. That sounds like a feature we're going to have much more often on line 5. What are you going to do to communicate the need to hang on at all times on line 5?

Lali: So that feature is actually a CBTC feature, and the system feature, not just on our system, every system. So in respect to that particular point, there'll be decals within the vehicle, and there'll also be announcements made on the train as well.

Saxe: 66% on time performance for the streetcar, why is this going to be better?

Lali: Because two thirds of it is within the tunnel section and not within mixed traffic. Noted, a third is within mixed mixed traffic, but does have right away in some instances. So just by the law of averages, you could work out your speed is going to be faster. You've got uninterrupted, no congestion. You've got the ability to make a difference on the ride times.

Saxe: But even even St Clair, Spadina, with their own dedicated right away, are still really slow.

Lali: but they don't have the tunnels

Saxe: okay, ignoring the tunnel, the above ground sections…

Lali: but you can't. It's a key factor in terms of the performance.

Saxe: Well, I guess we'll have to be watching carefully. Will the line five LRT work in the snow as well as our streetcars?

Lali: Yes, because the system does not have the same snow melters and switch heaters on line five as opposed to line six.
 
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EllaW said:
In the board meeting right now.
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I found the sound bite, thanks for letting me know.
eglinton1661 said:
[Unknown other TTC staff member]: Just for a stat on that. Just give a sense. So on surface, say, from Kennedy to Yonge Street, where a lot of that is above surface, your trip now will be 17 minutes faster. So instead of the 52 minutes that might’ve taken on the bus, it'll now take you 35 on light rail.
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I have serious doubts about 35 instead of 52 minutes for Yonge-Eglinton to Kennedy.

I'm predicting 35 min is the lowest end of the range if they get lucky with all green lights. Average is probably closer to 43-45 min.

TTC CEO said 55 to 59 min end-to-end right before that. (55-35=20 ; 59-35=24) Which means 20 to 24 min for the fully-underground 7.4km section west of Yonge i.e. 22 to 18.5 km/h from Mount Dennis to Yonge-Eg. That underground 18.5 to 22 km/h avg. speed in itself doesn't add up. I am predicting 25-27 km/h average speeds and 16 to 18 minute travel times between Mount Dennis and Yonge-Eg based on available info (incl. 80 to 88 km/h top speeds in tunnel, but 60 km/h would only increase travel times marginally).

Them claiming 35 min for ~11 km Yonge-Eg to Kennedy translates to just under 19 km/h avg. speed for that section, even though about 7.6 of that 11 km is mostly above ground, often crawling at 45 to 50 km/h top speeds. If the 3.4 out of 11 km underground from Yonge-Eg to Brentcliffe portal is at 22 km/h, then that would imply the other 7.6 km surface running is averaging 18 km/h. There is no way they are hitting 18 km/h with 650 metre stop spacing, 14 traffic lights, and no signal priority.

EDIT: seeing as there will be a 60 km/h speed limit in the tunnels, the line is certainly going to be averaging 60+ minutes end-to-end. That 55-59 min quote was clearly referring to travel times if improvements like 80+ km/h top speeds and TSP were reached in the future.
urbanclient said:
I thought it was 50 too. Unfortunately, 76 metres in 7 seconds is 39 km/h, in 6 seconds is 45.6 km/h. No matter how I time it, front or back of train, there is no way it hits 50 km/h.
There is clearly some sort of speed restriction in place, maybe they're overly cautious since the Sunnybrook stop is 300 metres away.
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I am happy to be proven wrong on February 8th though.
 
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PL1 said:
I think the schedule shown a page or so back showed LRT service until 11, and buses starting at 10:00 pm...
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So the LRT runs to 11 cause the yard is at Mount Dennis. The cars gotta get back to Mount Dennis. The buses start at 10 so that things start winding down at 10 and then shut down at 11. I believe.
 
So Eglinton ends up with interlined regular and express buses (after the LRT shuts down) for at least part of the day. Neat.
 
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