[81-717]

There is an entire online industry dedicated to making current era media appear as though it's from the past. Vinyl records and analog cameras are all the rage at the moment.

Riiight, and of course subway vehicles are the one thing excluded from this trend I can see why/how footage quality from decades ago can create nostalgia for that era, but when watching said footage my primary thought is "boy I wish the quality could've been better, so the exact same footage would be clearer & easier to watch/hear without your mind having to fill in the gaps".

This is going a bit far for me, but it's not as though there weren't thousands of other people who got videos taken in high quality, so it's not like there's a big historical loss on going here.

Of course, not to mention there'll be decades of more opportunities, unless in the distant future L5 is shut down like the SRT, or just maybe converted to subway tech (now that'd be footage worth getting!). But from the perspective of the person taking the video, one'd think they'd wanna get good quality shots that are their own. I love watching H5 videos, but unfortunately none of them are mine (except 5707 after retirement).

 

[Mind_the_gap]

When Helsinki artificially shortened their Metro from 6 cars (135m) to 4 cars (90m) to save 50 million Euros on the Western Espoo extension, at least they put in proper stickers on the platform edge to demarcate the boarding zone:

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A roll of duct tape along the platform edge would've been better than what we did.

Ottawa got that right with the wall-mounted "Boarding zone/Zone d'embarquement" signage at the underground stations.

Seems like circular stickers similar to the Covid social-distancing ones would've been better.

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Why are the top displays showing generic (5) Eglinton Line, when they're perfectly capable of showing upcoming departures.

Is this intentional because the TTC can't/is unwilling to show departure times at the legacy station entrance screens?

For what it’s worth, at least the underground Metrolinx Line 5 stations will have next train arrivals displayed at the street-level doorways.

Something the TTC should emulate…

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Why can't we do this here?? (Bus times)

 

[nfitz]

Why can't we do this here?? (Bus times)

We did better on Line 4. With actual removable walls rather than just some paint.

 

[smallspy]

Its also partly why they are slow on Line 6, undervolted compared to O-Train.

That is completely and totally incorrect. The line voltage - 1500Vdc in the case of Ottawa and 750Vdc in Toronto - has no bearing on the onboard traction bus voltage, which is about 480Vac.

hen Helsinki artificially shortened their Metro from 6 cars (135m) to 4 cars (90m) to save 50 million Euros on the Western Espoo extension, at least they put in proper stickers on the platform edge to demarcate the boarding zone:

Source

Source

A roll of duct tape along the platform edge would've been better than what we did.

Ottawa got that right with the wall-mounted "Boarding zone/Zone d'embarquement" signage at the underground stations.

Seems like circular stickers similar to the Covid social-distancing ones would've been better.

How is this any different than the 30 foot long stickers that were applied to each platform, exactly?

Dan

 

[Mind_the_gap]

[...] How is this any different than the 30 foot long stickers that were applied to each platform, exactly?

Dan

This, they couldn't even be bothered to mirror the stickers at the termini/side-platforms, so on one side the text is facing you, on the other it's facing the train, which is totally useless.

If that's really 30 feet/9 metres, wow.

Not to mention the weather, salting and passengers will destroy the above-ground ones.

 

[A_Faulty5]

Eglinton does its job well

 

[zang]

Perhaps, though it honestly seems pointless to deliberately downgrade the quality of a video just to make it seem like it's from that era (especially when it's obviously not), downgrading the quality of the video is only subtracting from its value, not adding to it. If anything, it would be far more interesting to watch real footage from the 1980s upscaled to HD/4K.

I finally got the chance to look over this video in full and outside of my phone. It's very obviously either an analog camcorder (from long before 2011) or run through a filter. Tracking lines, the type of over-exposure blooming and the frame artifacts at the bottom just don't happen with digital recording methods; which by 2011 were the norm.

Again, a lot of pointless stuff is done as sheer clickbait. And by claiming to have recorded the video on something from 2011, it obviously has drawn enough attention to get people to promote it as such, even if it's entirely disingenuous.

 

[hw621]

Eglinton does its job well

Eglinton drivers: let's get on those tracks!

 

[youngblood]

Eglinton does its job well

Nice but why does it look like it’s going so slow

 

[Bojaxs]

Nice but why does it look like it’s going so slow

Was thinking the same. It's great to see it beating out the traffic, however, if it were travelling faster it would make more of a statement to drivers.

 

[A 6264]

I've been told that Line 5 & 6 use different voltage. So I would think that it's not possible for Alstom Citadis units to run on Line 5?

They just need one of these.

 

[nfitz]

Nice but why does it look like it’s going so slow

Initially, it's just leaving Wynford station. After that I don't think it looks that slow - perhaps someone could time it and measure the distance?

 

[Steve X]

Was thinking the same. It's great to see it beating out the traffic, however, if it were travelling faster it would make more of a statement to drivers.

The trains are operated by ATO in the tunnels but manually driven on the surface. There seem to be a different speed limit and acceleration rate allowed when operators driven them vs. ATO driven. We hope they allow them to drive faster soon.

The Finch Citadis are not capable of ATO so they definitely won't work on Line 5 with having that system installed.

 

[chrisw]

Again, a lot of pointless stuff is done as sheer clickbait. And by claiming to have recorded the video on something from 2011, it obviously has drawn enough attention to get people to promote it as such, even if it's entirely disingenuous.

Though the YT video doesn't really make the claim. Maybe @SaugeenJunction was mistaken or making a joke. The YT video had a generic title 'Eglinton Crosstown LRT' and no comments.

From googling I just see the claim on social media posts from beyondfinch, on Reddit and Instagram, a 13s clip and I don't think they have overlapping footage with the YT video. They claimed they used a SamsungGT65.

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https://www.reddit.com/r/toronto/s/ZOMA5wT3BA

Here's another user who took pictures using a Sony NEX-3 camera from 2011. https://www.dpreview.com/forums/thr...at-is-now-line-5-eglinton-in-toronto.4829639/

 

[kaptrice]

Though the YT video doesn't really make the claim. Maybe @SaugeenJunction was mistaken or making a joke. The YT video had a generic title 'Eglinton Crosstown LRT' and no comments.

From googling I just see the claim on social media posts from beyondfinch, on Reddit and Instagram, a 13s clip and I don't think they have overlapping footage with the YT video. They claimed they used a SamsungGT65.

View this content on Instagram

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https://www.reddit.com/r/toronto/s/ZOMA5wT3BA

Here's another user who took pictures using a Sony NEX-3 camera from 2011. https://www.dpreview.com/forums/thr...at-is-now-line-5-eglinton-in-toronto.4829639/

The YouTube video is my footage.
I recorded on Video8. By 2007, when ECLRT was proposed with Transit City, it was reaching obsolescence but still in consumer use. I would have used Digital8, which my memories from 2007 are recorded on, but I don't have a working camera for it.
The Instagram post is someone else who recorded digitally.
These videos were taken for fun and uploaded just for sharing. I hope that it doesn't give any false impressions.