chrisw
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A big crowd at Finch station platforms who didn't get notice of the shuttle buses yet.
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A big crowd at Finch station platforms who didn't get notice of the shuttle buses yet.
yrt+viva=1system
Senior Member
Automatic announcements are saying there’s delays between Finch and St. George. But in actuality there is no service between Bloor and St. George.
Complete failure of the system.
Addendum, it’s taking +10mins to turn trains around at St. George for northbound service to VMC.
Complete failure of the system.
Addendum, it’s taking +10mins to turn trains around at St. George for northbound service to VMC.
chrisw
Active Member
Jokes on me, the shuttle bus ended at Sheppard.
Steve X
Senior Member
Remember how they told everyone the old system is falling apart, that's why there's so many disruption and they need funding for a new ATO system. Well, what have we learn?
nfitz
Superstar
That it's a lot quicker to reset the new system than the old one? The first Finch shuttle bus only got as far as Sheppard before they put them back on the train.
chrisw
Active Member
It should be noted the time before ttc deciding to launch shuttle buses, and the delays could've been much worse downtown.
nfitz
Superstar
As always.
But for a large system-wide issue? Compare to what used to happen on Line 1? Here's a typical 3-hour delay for just 2 stations on Line 2 earlier this year.
Northern Light
Superstar
In that thread.........this comment caught my attention (caveat I have no idea who the poster is, and whether his third-hand information is at all accurate)
Smoke2011
New Member
The communication was really lacking. I was at Queen. Nothing said for about 15 minutes. Then got an alert for overcrowding at Dundas. Then some annoucments and depending on the person it was either the whole line or the U. It wa sluaghable when the annoucement was no service on the U but shuttle buses above bloor. Over and hour to get from Queen to Bloor.
Amare
Senior Member
It's the TTC's specialty...not knowing how to communicate anything to riders.
I had a great experience last Friday with a train being stuck northbound at Dundas with a mechanical issue for over 20 mins. The TTC communicated that issue, but then that's where the fun started: they decided to hold trains southbound at Dundas for whatever idiotic reason so pretty much the entire Yonge line was crippled.
Logic would say the reason may have been to turn back trains from Dundas to head back north, but they instead of doing that they simply chose to stop service southbound without saying anything to customers. Which is the TTC's typical half-a**** approach to basically almost everything.
81-717
Active Member
nfitz
Superstar
I'm not sure what specific personal safety issues are of great concern. I guess the biggest concern would be those from out of town, who have to drive in traffic to get to transit.
T3G
Senior Member
You've always had to be at least a little wary for your personal safety on the TTC. It wasn't all sunshine and butterflies pre COVID. I remember as a child seeing that my home station Kennedy was considered one of the sketchier parts of the TTC and being freaked out - that was 2008.
turbanplanner
Senior Member
nfitz
Superstar
The media always profits from sensationalism.
I've never felt unsafe on the TTC - or on the streets in Toronto. I have in Chicago - but much of that was probably my ignorance and paranoia. And used to live in Flemingdon Park and regular walk through Regent Park commuting (before the rebuild!), and up Sherbourne from King to Gerrard!
Far more deaths as pedestrians, and even more as drivers. You are much more likely to be run over by the bus you just got off, than by a passenger!