JackTatt 🇨🇦

Toronto is highly addicted to rapid transit always being in the median between opposing lanes of traffic. Besides is an option!

It’s for Line 6 only. The TTC Audit Risk Compliance Management Committee doesn’t mention Line 5. Hopefully TTC resolves this.

What about the geometry problem of cars? The shortest cars are 4m long in 3m wide lanes and only typically carry 1.5 people. So even with just 1m between cars and 2 people each, you max at 400 prs/km/lane. Which is a train a quarter the length. And that requires everyone to have suitable cars.

So tell me when these autonomous cars are actually coming? I’ve been patiently waiting and it’s less than crickets.
And that just means people could multitask better while travelling (not that you can’t already do that on a VIA train sitting in a siding or waiting for your delayed flight at YUL).

Meanwhile in Canada. Ridership of the 900 Airport Rocket, UP Express, and Canada Line is probably like one-third Air Canada, WestJet, Porter, and Air Transat flight attendants and pilots in full uniform.

Even TTC uses a private vendor for their feed (I believe it was NextBus and now is Trapeze but could be wrong @swanboatsteve.bsky.social). The data is still the transit agency’s to use and give public access to, they just hire a company to help with the technical side and support systems.

I hope so. Metrolinx used a free subscription API for their realtime GO Transit and UPE GTFS feeds. TransLink does a similar thing in Vancouver (they actually only moved to the GTFS-RT standard recently because they used their own custom feed before for good measure).

Seeing as the trains are dispatched by TTC’s own Transit Control Centre (whose location is top secret at Hillcrest Complex), I would imagine TTC would have access (including extra detail of stuff like switch state and signal aspects that the public isn’t interested in. They just can’t share it.

Metrolinx has an API registration process for their UPExpress and GO Transit real-time API, which is a common practice for security (TransLink in Vancouver does it too). It is free to apply for but name, email, and address is required. The key can be suspended for violating terms of use.

That has nothing to do with it. The province needs to make the feed public.

Is that for Line 5 too or just Line 6?
That is bad for academic research, public advocacy, and passenger information (GTFS is used by applications like Transit and Maps to show actual next arrivals not scheduled).
Please email Metrolinx to change this so that the GTFS-RT is public, like for GO.

The city is proposing an electronic sign that will scroll through all relevant driving laws in the Ontario Highway Traffic Act in case anyone forgets.
/s

I don’t call 40% of votes cast which are 60% of Ontario citizens “many many”.
If unit we didn’t have first past the post. @fairvote.ca

Your donation limits are too high. I’ve started to make political donations here in Canada. If I give much more than $1700 federally, I will be in violation of federal law and the Commissioner of Canada Elections will be after me. Oh, and corporations cannot donate, only individual voters.

Ambulances are one area our public health insurance falls short because it isn’t in the Canada Health Act so some provinces cover more than others. Here in Ontario, the co-pay for medically necessary land or air is $45 for Ontario residents. But in other provinces can be hundreds of dollars.

What we pay in taxes he pays in insurance premiums and private payments. Except I can vote for the people who decide what is done with my taxes while I haven’t yet heard of voting for your insurance company’s board.

Asking if he was okay is a really polite thing to do. Sometimes it can be hard to tell if someone is just dousing on their commute (which we all do) and unresponsive passed out. But yeah, weird to ignore the white dude cursing.

The state of Victoria commissioned a big study by Monash University on fare evasion. The most money is lost to a few people who perennially skip on fares for risk taking reasons. Much less is lost to the more common people who don’t know how to use the fare system, forgot to top up, or are poor.

TTC Ten Minute Network: three buses arrive in a pack then none for twenty minutes.
OC Transpo Ten Minute Network: a very late and very early bus conspire with the one on time one to create a great Ten Minute Network, at least for a half hour of bliss.

DC Metro Transit Police has plain clothes detectives and unmarked cars?

I love the 10 minute headway even if that’s an accident.

I see, of course. Fixed block signalling no CBTC overkill on your LRT.

ABC?
Yeah, I’m just talking about the downtown part. I thought everything had active TSP or outright preemption based on our discussion yesterday.

So MAX doesn’t get active TSP priority just timed in its downtown loops? Thats a pity.

That tram is an Urbos 100 delivered 2024 for the Parramatta Light Rail so it just have just missed the update.
So Urbos originally didn’t have axles? Interesting.

Designs like that tend to waste a lot of capacity, like on the Urbos 3/100 in NSW. 2 or 3 seats where Flexity and Citadis would have 4.

Toronto has a little bit but is moving towards banning as many of them as possible (mind you that depends on driver obedience and police enforcement, both of which aren’t guaranteed). They’re most common on outer lines like Lake Shore Blvd west of Humber and Queen Street east of Don.

The flexity’s wheels are still on axles but I know some designs don’t need to be (if you don’t have single-blade switches like the backwards TTC streetcar network). Do any modern trams today do away with axles for smoother floors and avoid the knee-knocking facing seats.

For those, you would always want leading left turns (in the same direction) unless there are dedicated turn lanes because an earlier through signal is no good if the tram is blocked by a left turn. How do they know if one wants to turn left (could offset phases so through and protected lefts work)?

Why are stepless vehicle interiors a worse user experience?