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Towered
Superstar
For purely selfish reasons - the all night Islington bus being axed for either (or both) Kipling and Royal York/Weston instead would impact me negatively in the future should I be in a situation where I need to use the blue night service.
Northern Light
Superstar
Fill out the survey, it lets you skip stuff you aren't interested in, so you can just go rlght to the Blue Night Etobicoke section and you can tell them which of the two options you prefer, or neither, and present another.
I suggested that adding Kipling was good, but removing Islington was suspect and to proceed w/caution. I noted that its removal also adversely affected connections from Lakeshore to Bloor (overnight) east of Kipling.
imerk
Active Member
Queue jump lane is open and operational. Nice to see this little improvement near my home.
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yrt+viva=1system
Senior Member
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/tt...cle_65bf2b82-5410-11ef-a236-ef2f21a3031d.html
TTC ordered to pay $60 million over construction delays, public art display at subway station
The decision by an Ontario Superior Court judge caps a seven-year legal battle over construction problems that afflicted Pioneer Village station.Northern Light
Superstar
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/tt...cle_65bf2b82-5410-11ef-a236-ef2f21a3031d.html
TTC ordered to pay $60 million over construction delays, public art display at subway station
The decision by an Ontario Superior Court judge caps a seven-year legal battle over construction problems that afflicted Pioneer Village station.
Before you laugh too hard, remember who funds the TTC!
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Then lets add........both the TTC and Walsh have appealed the ruling...............so this ain't done..............and neither are the legal bills.
yrt+viva=1system
Senior Member
Personally, I think we should have more architectural designs engineered onto the passenger interaction level. Whether that be seating, concrete patterned walls, platforms etc. Like how European system do or even Montreal. Instead of hiring artists to design individual art pieces for installation.
Amare
Senior Member
I'm looking forward to the hefty fare increase we're going to have next year to offset this and the nice hefty pay increase that operators will be getting over the next 3 years.https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/tt...cle_65bf2b82-5410-11ef-a236-ef2f21a3031d.html
TTC ordered to pay $60 million over construction delays, public art display at subway station
The decision by an Ontario Superior Court judge caps a seven-year legal battle over construction problems that afflicted Pioneer Village station.
Richard White
Senior Member
Be thankful this isn't London UK.
The one way fare is between £2.80 and £7.90 depending on where you go. That's $4.90 and $13.80 respectively.
Larger system with zones yes but could you imagine paying $10 each way to ride the subway?
turbanplanner
Senior Member
My friends without cars often pay $60+ to "ride the subway" due to the constant service suspensions when you factor in the uber
Steve X
Senior Member
The project has a contingency fund set aside for problem like this. I'm not sure if they used it up since the project was already overrun. Since this is a border station and York Region was suppose to pay a portion of overrun cost, they might be forced to chip in too.
evandyk
Senior Member
My car costs me more than that for each use.
turbanplanner
Senior Member
Why do you drive 2x a month?
JBR
Active Member
The 22 and 70 operated as a single route a few years ago during construction at Coxwell station. The reasoning for the merge seems a little suspect as you could use that same argument to merge over 50% of all bus routes along the BD…
Northern Light
Superstar
I argued against the merger in my submission.
I expressed concern that lengthening both routes (by way of making them one) substantially would make them more susceptible to reliability issues, something both routes already suffer from to some degree.
I also noted that there may be at least some temporary confusion with having Coxwell 22 southbound at one platform, and Coxwell 22 northbound at another whereas the two distinct route names reduce this risk.
To the extent this change produced any benefit in terms of higher ridership, I noted that the bus platforms at Coxwell are unusually narrow and subject to severe congestion at times already.
Finally, I noted that I'm not sure there is a substantial upside, since both routes (directions) would still enter the station and likely have a layover as they do now, is there really that bit a time savings vs getting off one frequent bus route and onto another?
Seems like low potential return, and moderate to medium risk.
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