Richard White
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Oh for Christ's sake.. one of the shuttles got into a collision at Church and Bloor.
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reinventingthewheel
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I would hope there was an expedited review of film and witness statements. Perhaps this was actually done and they have reason to conduct further investigation on track level now.
The main thing to emphasize here:
Northern Light
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Lets add; this could not have happened with Platform Edge Doors in place.
Something I've been lobbying for, for two decades.
Finally, we're putting them into one station on Line 1 (Bloor) and they will be part of the Ontario Line Design (yay!) ; but we could have finished most of the system by now had we started when we ought to have. (yes, with ATC signalling as well)
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turbanplanner
Senior Member
Not a good use of money
Northern Light
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Line 2 service has resumed.
But don't go to ttc.ca expecting to find out, the site is down.
Also, security incident at Bathurst has trains bypassing.
But don't go to ttc.ca expecting to find out, the site is down.
Also, security incident at Bathurst has trains bypassing.
rbt
Senior Member
I presume they went into the tunnel believed to have something, like a weapon, and did not have it when they arrested them.
St. George to Woodbine was a very long stretch to close for this.
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Amare
Senior Member
Ah so it's one of those days in the TTC where there's incidents every hour on the hour huh? Was there some kind of mass release from the Toronto South Detention Centre in the past few days or something, my goodness.
It's going to be fun seeing how big chunks of the Ontario Line will have to be shut down when incidents occur, because that line will have very few crossover locations.
Northern Light
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How many crossovers will the O/L have?
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At least it will have Platform Edge Doors.....
turbanplanner
Senior Member
The doors just mean crazies will focus on misbehaving inside the train
IRT_BMT_IND
Active Member
Yes, there really should be at least one more crossover to allow service to reach Yonge in a disruption.What the @$##
Shut down 1/2 of Line 2 for 'police activity'???
Found the reason
Man jumps on TTC tracks at Sherbourne station fleeing from police after allegedly assaulting a woman
A male suspect has been taken to hospital after jumping onto the subway tracks at Sherbourne station while allegedly fleeing from police. Police were called to the station around 12 p.m. on Friday for reports of an assault. It is alleged a man was assaulting a woman on subway platform. He fled...toronto.citynews.ca
That person has been removed from track level, but the service is still shut down. I am very perplexed, we don't need to CSI the track level, look at the cameras, talk to witnesses.
I'll grant I lack complete info here, but would not the be the first time this week we've had something similar (over-reaction closure)
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As a side note, this illustrates the challenge of far too few crossovers on Line 2.
There needs to be one downtown east of St. George.
The one they have at Chester should work, but I gather they centre track is out of service (helpful).
They need one at Main, somehow, because there are so many bus routes running out of Main and a streetcar, The oversight in not building one w/the station was enormous.
They also need another in the west end somewhere.
I remember reading somewhere (it may have been an old usenet post) that the TTC was considering installing a crossover at Bay Lower for exactly this reason. I also wonder what it would take to cut out the tunnel wall east of Sherbourne for a crossover.
Northern Light
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@smallspy might be able to offer some thoughts.
Its something I've asked about (at a high level). The curves around Sherbourne are an issue, I gather.
In other spots it may 'just' be a matter of dollars.
smallspy
Senior Member
The curves aren't the issue at Sherbourne, the issue is that the tunnels are bored to the west. Because of the distance to the surface there, I'm not sure that excavating a cavern is viable - it may require an open-cut in order to do it.
Perhaps east of the station, but they've never modified tunnels that heavily before (adding a two-track cavern where one didn't exist previously. I'll be honest with you, I'm not sure what that would entail, or even if it would be possible.
Also, earlier you noted that Chester was out of service. That is correct - the early closures for the past week, and this weekend's closure, are to replace the trackwork through there.
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Amare
Senior Member
There's a crossover east and west of Exhibition Station, another east of Queen station, one west of the Don portal, one north of Pape station, one north of Science Centre station. So a total of 6.
I've marked the rough areas of where they will be located in red. It's easier to see the dearth of them this way:
smallspy
Senior Member
As I recall, Science Centre Station was configured the same as Exhibition, with double-crossovers on either end of the platform.
As well, there will be crossovers at the MSF.
Dan
Amare
Senior Member
I purposely omitted the MSF crossover as I cant imagine how useful that would be for an in-service disruption, but you're certainly correct.
That's interesting regarding crossover at Science Centre, I thought I saw that it was intended to be on the south end of the station but later it was confirmed to be north of it.