Northern Light said:
Paul, there has already been 15 minute service on Lakeshore on weekday-middays and currently on weekends from mid-afternoon through evenings.

There is no impediment to 15 service (once the USRC and joint corridor works are complete) between Oakville and Oshawa.

As no other line has yet delivered 15 minute off-peak I will leave it others to make assertions.
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Quite true, I could have been a bit more careful with my wording. I was more thinking of the other lines where double track is being slowed, or so it seems.

- Paul
 
urbancog said:
The Pearson Subdivision Guideway Engineering Study could be to understand options for using different rolling stock on the Pearson Airport service; what stock could be used with the guideway as it is? is it possible to utilize 2-deck GO cars?

As usual, the RfQ description is too opaque for us to know but given the statements above about the future of the service it seems like something Metrolinx would want to know.

Once there's a 4th platform at Bramalea and the Weston subdivision has 4 tracks, surely that would support 4 trains per hour to both Pearson and Bramalea, plus the service to Kitchener?
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Maybe the guideway study could also look at how hard it would be to convert to a Pearson-Woodbine APM, so that then all four KI tracks can be used for something bigger then a small DMU consist?
 
It may be too soon - but it’s impressive that transit factors this fully into plans for the Dodgers’ celebration.
Over to you, Metrolink.

- Paul

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grammin said:
Earlier this year, my son and I went to BMO for a TFC game, maybe about 20,000 fans there so no where near capacity. After the game we walked to Queen and Dufferin to avoid the crowds. I'm not exaggerating, we waited 45 minutes for a Dufferin bus to take us the Subway at Bloor, the first bus that came was full and drove passed us, the second, we barely squeezed on to, there was zero car traffic. Our conclusion, was next time, to simply drive to BMO. I expect busy transit and traffic after a game, but the services provided are just rank.
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I'm there at least 15 times to 20 times a year, for over 15 years. Including when there's been 40,000 there (in the 2016 playoffs).

TTC service is normally excellent - I'm not sure what went wrong - but I do try and avoid the Dufferin bus because it's so crap. And if I do take it, I'm certainly using the app to make sure there's one coming. If there's a 45-minute just pay the extra 40¢ and take the GO train to the subway.

The Ossington bus has never failed me, even during the G20 rioting - though if there is none coming I'd keep walking up Atlantic to King and catch the 504. The GO train is fantastic, now it runs more than once an hour. Every 15-minutes for Saturday games, and they often toss in an extra on weeknights when the frequency is only 30 minutes.

And even though the crowd for the streetcar can look big, the worst I've had is not getting on the one that was already stopped to load before I got there (and that was with the short CLRV cars). Another one is there quick, and they usually have extras sitting at Exhibition loop for the crowds. I just take a 509 or 510, whichever one looks less busy (usually the 510 to Bathurst station).

I've driven once to a TFC game. Driving there wasn't too bad. But I parked in the lot on the north side of the tracks, in Liberty Village. Trying to come home was a nightmare, heading east. (In retrospect I should probably have headed down Dufferin, and crawled onto the Gardiner). It took an extra 45-minutes to get home. Never again! I doubt it's improved since they built all those condos along Liberty Street.

I was at one game this season where my brother who lives nearby chose to drive, while I took the GO train. I got on the train about 5 minutes before he pulled out. I was up in the stands for a good half-hour before he appeared - parking seems more of a challenge with both Ontario Place lots closed. (before he had kids, he used to cycle ... and yes, that was faster).

dowlingm said:
A lot less available transit at Dodgers Stadium, ironically. They are proposing to build a gondola...
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LOL!

The big problem with Dodger stadium is that it is literally in a sea of parking lots. You almost need rapid transit from the far edge of the parking lots to the stadium! It's only about 700 metres from the edge of the parking lot to Chinatown Station on the A line - but they've never put in the infrastructure - so you have to walk nearly 2 km with no sidewalk. Which might be faster than being stuck in the post-game traffic jam - if there were actually sidewalks.

Heck, it's only 1,400 metres to Union Station - if they built a staircase - but they can't even be bothered to build a sidewalk. And probably fine walking from the stadium - but it's quite the climb - because they built the damn thing on a mountain! And people complain about Rogers Stadium.

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My gosh though - the development opportunities.
 
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I wonder if UPX actually has a limitation on extra late night service which the other lines don’t, since its northern terminus is on GTAA property and presumably the current timings are based on when GTAA has sufficient security in the station area to manage any issues. Once Woodbine is built presumably Metrolinx could choose to terminate there in situations where GTAA wanted to close shop?
 
nfitz said:
The big problem with Dodger stadium is that it is literally in a sea of parking lots. You almost need rapid transit from the far edge of the parking lots to the stadium! It's only about 700 metres from the edge of the parking lot to Chinatown Station on the A line - but they've never put in the infrastructure - so you have to walk nearly 2 km with no sidewalk. Which might be faster than being stuck in the post-game traffic jam - if there were actually sidewalks.

Heck, it's only 1,400 metres to Union Station - if they built a staircase - but they can't even be bothered to build a sidewalk. And probably fine walking from the stadium - but it's quite the climb - because they built the damn thing on a mountain! And people complain about Rogers Stadium.
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The one time I was taken to Dodger stadium, I was impressed with how easy the drive in and out was. Quite unlike other venues that have convoluted crawls to the Freeway (Amalie Arena, I'm looking at you)

There was a bus shuttle advertised from LAUPT to the stadium for today's victory rally.

- Paul
 
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