[drum118]

Mississauga named a dozen things for one person while she was still alive and in many cases still in office.

Can we say Hazel while she was still mayor

 

[Richard White]

It appears we have a somewhat significant Plan A at Yonge Station this morning.

Heavy smoke is reported at Bay station.

For those out of the loop, a Plan A is smoke or fire from a train.

If the reports from Bay are correct this could last awhile.

 

[PL1]

It appears we have a somewhat significant Plan A at Yonge Station this morning.

Heavy smoke is reported at Bay station.

For those out of the loop, a Plan A is smoke or fire from a train.

If the reports from Bay are correct this could last awhile.

Service has resumed as of about 7:15 this morning, according to the TTC tweet bot on Bluesky

Edit: "tweet bot" not "tweet not". Autocorrect

 

[Richard White]

Service has resumed as of about 7:15 this morning, according to the TTC tweet not on Bluesky

Indeed.

It took awhile to clean up the fire extinguisher residue apparently

 

[Bordercollie]

‘Massive inconvenience’: TTC CEO apologizes after work car fire at busy station wreaks havoc on morning commute

Subway service has resumed on stretches of both Line 1 (Yonge-University) and Line 2 (Bloor-Danforth) after an early-morning fire at Bloor-Yonge Station wreaked havoc on the morning commute, the TTC says.

www.ctvnews.ca

Something needs to be done about these work cars leaking fluid and catching fire. Perhaps they are past their prime? Will the T1's be converted to work cars? But finding replacement components may be an issue.

 

[DSCToronto]

‘Massive inconvenience’: TTC CEO apologizes after work car fire at busy station wreaks havoc on morning commute

Subway service has resumed on stretches of both Line 1 (Yonge-University) and Line 2 (Bloor-Danforth) after an early-morning fire at Bloor-Yonge Station wreaked havoc on the morning commute, the TTC says.

www.ctvnews.ca

Something needs to be done about these work cars leaking fluid and catching fire. Perhaps they are past their prime? Will the T1's be converted to work cars? But finding replacement components may be an issue.

Take a look at Steve Munro's recent post on this.. https://stevemunro.ca/2025/09/15/is-ttcs-subway-work-car-fleet-inadequate/

 

[Jonny5]

‘Massive inconvenience’: TTC CEO apologizes after work car fire at busy station wreaks havoc on morning commute

Subway service has resumed on stretches of both Line 1 (Yonge-University) and Line 2 (Bloor-Danforth) after an early-morning fire at Bloor-Yonge Station wreaked havoc on the morning commute, the TTC says.

www.ctvnews.ca

Something needs to be done about these work cars leaking fluid and catching fire. Perhaps they are past their prime? Will the T1's be converted to work cars? But finding replacement components may be an issue.

Steve Munro has documented they are in fact many years, if not more than a decade past their prime. Thank John Tory for constricting capital expenditures to only duct tape to hold things together.
You also likely cannot simply convert a T1 into a repair car without spending far more than the cost of having one custom built, or at least getting one that's useful and modern and not some imitation of one that only does 50% of the job right.

 

[smallspy]

Steve Munro has documented they are in fact many years if not more than a decade past their prime. Thank John Tory for constricting capital expenditures to only duct tape to hold things together.
You also likely cannot simply convert a T1 into a repair car without spending far more than the cost of having one custom built, or at least getting one that's useful and modern and not some imitation of one that only does 50% of the job right.

Indeed, only a small percentage of the work car fleet are old subway cars - only those are really capable of being replaced by other old subway cars.

You can't modify an old subway car into a tamper or gondola or slab carrier.

Dan

 

[evandyk]

The kid's grade 1 class was leading their truth and reconciliation committee assembly first thing this morning, so waking up to a subway closure was not good news for us. Luckily it's still nice enough to bike with him. The subway had actually reopened in time for us, but once we mentioned the possibility of biking (he uses one of those trail-a-bikes for longer trips) there was no going back.

 

[81-717]

Didn't they convert some H1 work cars into non-old-subway-car work cars by removing the subway-car part of them? In any case, hopefully the remaining H4 work cars won't be replaced by T1s anytime soon (or at all).

 

[Bordercollie]

Indeed, only a small percentage of the work car fleet are old subway cars - only those are really capable of being replaced by other old subway cars.

You can't modify an old subway car into a tamper or gondola or slab carrier.

Dan

But the Hawker cars connected to the work cars are mostly standard. Could they be replaced with T1's?

 

[DSCToronto]

But the Hawker cars connected to the work cars are mostly standard. Could they be replaced with T1's?

As note above, you really need purpose built work cars not jury-rigged old passenger cars.

 

[Bordercollie]

As note above, you really need purpose built work cars not jury-rigged old passenger cars.

Good luck getting capital funding for that. It's probably at least ten years out.

 

[Richard White]

Good luck getting capital funding for that. It's probably at least ten years out.

Agreed but once the conversion to ATC comes into play for Line 2, they will need to upgrade the vehicles.

SImply put, you need vehicles that work for ther intended purpose.

 

[DSCToronto]

Good luck getting capital funding for that. It's probably at least ten years out.

I urge you, again, to read this: https://stevemunro.ca/2025/09/15/is-ttcs-subway-work-car-fleet-inadequate/