Jack Tattersall
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MASc. Candidate @CivMin researching public transport fare and service integration @TAL_UofT . Like trains and buses and trams and people. Urban Transit Planning.
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I must emphasize that commuter rail can come awfully close to matching rapid transit, we just don't to that traditionally in North America but other places do
Sydney Trains T4 Eastern Suburbs has mainline 8 car double deck trains every 3 - 10 minutes on a two track line. 5am-1am.
@Navglad
@julestrainman
You can't replicate rapid transit headways or 24/7 service on commuter rail lines, it'll be far more expensive per rider to even try, and as a separate issue I'm fully in support of an east/west line in the Bronx
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@macsquirelera
Netherlands can do no wrong.
North American can do no right.
The gospel according to Jason.
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Transit nerds help me. I’m on the 2109 Niagara Falls GO train back to Toronto. And the cab door is opened and unlocked. Can I go in to the cab and look out the back window. Can I sit there? Or is it a no-no
@GOtransit
.
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Transport for NSW wayfinding is a tour de force. All modes are identified by a uniform symbol and color
T (trains) is orange
B (buses) blue
L (Light Rail) red
F (ferries) green
M (Metro) turquoise
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Premier Danielle Smith is Canada's most social/political conservative premier and she is pro rail and just unveiled a rail plan for the province (which currently has none). Is there a US state with a staunch republican governor and legislature who unveiled a rail plan!?
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I live in your riding, near Bloor Street, and love these bike lanes.
You need to actually focus on healthcare, road safety, and housing not bike lane petitions.
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Some of the demands seem fine: like better benefits and wage increases.
But some of them threaten any hope of fare and service integration: stopping the TTC from letting neighbouring agencies like MiWay and TTC operate service in Toronto but force us to wait for a TTC bus.
#TTC
workers are fighting to keep transit public and protect TTC service levels in Etobicoke, North York, and Scarborough.
Across Toronto, transit riders are calling for a fair deal now!
Contact TTC CEO Rick Leary and decision-makers before midnight!
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@CityNewsTO
This is not the last of this.
@ATUlocal113
@TTChelps
Stand behind your operator and fight this ticket. They should not be penalized for doing their job in a city that does not support them on a street where the laws are not enforced.
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See how that screen design is so much more confusing than Sydney Trains portrait orientation with single vertical list of stations. Three columns of stations — this is a station screen not an essay!
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Thanks all for your advice. I went and told the Customer Service Ambassador in the accessibility coach and she was very appreciative and raced back to close the door.
Of course, I didn’t go into the cab let alone touch anything! I’m a transit MASc student not an idiot.
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@CHogarthPC
I live in your riding, near Bloor Street, and love these bike lanes.
You need to actually focus on healthcare, road safety, and housing not bike lane petitions.
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Old fashion dispatching at Sydney Trains with a guard, a dispatcher, a white flag of surrender, and a whistle. Every departure. Every direction. And the guard hangs out open door while train arrives and departs. Not sure how Alstom or ONXpress would feel about that
@WBMetro62
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Here’s a Toronto one.
@Metrolinx
should take over and seize the assets of all transit agencies in the Golden Horseshoe, reducing them to contractors operating services on behalf of Metrolinx and paid by the province. Service standards and fares would be set by Metrolinx.
1/n
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I was up on Eglinton Avenue and saw some Flexity Freedom Light Rail Vehciles testing at Mount Dennis Station and the Mount Dennis Portal.
Line 5 is looking good
@Metrolinx
!
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@TMrakas
Four storeys is NOT a tower. Aurora is about to get massive increases in GO frequency on the Barrie Line, it must have denser and more development to make use of and justify this increase in service.
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Great start but let's do this quickly. Bus and streetcar only lanes can be rolled out very fast. Just pour the red paint! We also need to ask the province to permit automatic camera enforcement of bus lane driving offences, allowing law enforcement to focus on bigger concerns.
70% of TTC rides start or end with a bus or streetcar. Unpredictable schedules and slow service are a headache that impact thousands every single day.
Today, we moved to start work to speed up TTC buses across four of the busiest routes with priority lanes and signalling.
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Via Rail’s practices basically do the opposite: take everything you hate about planes (but would love about trains 🤣) and combine them on a train. So boarding queues and ticket checks before even reaching the gate (train platform), weighing luggage, and delays.
Introducing LNE-Air, the latest innovation in travel.
We've taken everything you love about trains (and hate about planes) and combined them to bring our first class service off the tracks and into the sky.
Watch and learn more...
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Why is
@TTChelps
still blocking off the ends of trains on Line 2 with the yellow tarp? Curious why this is still being done well after COVID concerns have reduced.
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Day 4.5 of asking for King Street to become a pedestrian transit mall like Sydney’s George Street (but with overhead wires). Access for select parking garages/ loading bays is still maintained with short sections. NSW emergency services also use it to go to incidents quickly.
Day Four of asking for King Street to become a pedestrianized transit mall! This time like Bourke Street in Melbourne!
Both King and Bourke are key transport and pedestrian corridors, but Bourke is prettier and much more human centric!
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@robby_rumble
Call 311. The storm drains cannot take engine oil, and it can be a threat water ecosystems. This is serious.
Stormwater is not necessarily treated to the safe degree as sanitary effluent (toilets, etc) due to wastewater treatment capacity limitations during large storm events
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I like to say that our transit being better than that in the USA is equivalent to a sports team winning the provincial championships. What does a sports team do then, compete in the nationals and worlds? So we need to aim to be world best, comparing against Europe and Asia!
5) Aiming Higher - The culture of transit in Toronto is too much the usual Canadian culture of “we’ve the US, that’s good enough”. Constantly benchmarking ourselves against American cities and transit is not helpful!
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TTC surface route reliability (headway regularity and service speed) is one of our biggest problems and is holding the entire network back.
@TTChelps
@MayorOliviaChow
Pushing 35 minutes and still no eastbound 504 King at River
@TTChelps
. It’s great that we have North America’s largest street railway but sucks that it is managed so badly. You can literally watch people on their phones switch to Uber.
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@TVO_CMG
@Melrich24
@Josephdesjar
@HouseOfBlume
@spaikin
@PBS
@mattgurney
TVO had 8.1 million Ontario viewers (2020-21). Ontario had 14.7Million residents in 2020, meaning more than 50% of Ontarians watch TVO. Most government services don't have that much use. More than 50% of residents don't use ODSP or have house fires, but we need those services.
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Yesterday afternoon, I ventured out to the T3 Bankstown Line. This Sydney Trains Line will be closing permanently by the end of this year for conversion to metro (as part of Sydney Metro City and Southwest). But works are already underway on the line by
@SydneyMetro
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@JRUrbaneNetwork
I've always said: If misnaming transit systems were a crime, then Australia is the worst offender, facing multiple counts and the longest term in Transit Purgatory Prison. Metro Tasmania (buses), Brisbane Metro (a BRT), Adelaide Metro (transit agency), Melbourne Metro (train).
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@DigitalSciGuy
That looks naturally unsafe due to the skew of the road crossing the tracks and the closeness of the following intersection. Florida needs a Level Crossing Removal Program. Can Ron DeSantis learn from Dan Andrews?
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@jeremyzorek
@fieldsix
Please add the lost fare revenue and operating costs for replacement bus shuttles and staffing to the homeowner as well. Plus damages for interfering with a rail corridor/critical infrastructure.
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@jdblackiii
@JRUrbaneNetwork
Unfortunately, they are overbuilding, with a giant single bore tunnel, wrongly appropriating the Barcelona innovation meant for dense historic cities to a suburban city.
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@KORichardson
@GOtransit
@Torontounion
I wonder if low platforms increase the temptation to cross the tracks. Like if this was Sydney, you'ld risk breaking your leg getting off the high platform onto the tracks and then back up again.
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@smuncky
@TTChelps
@TTCNewsroom
@TPSOperations
@TrafficServices
Explain yourselves! Why does a streetcar have to be emptied so the driver can get a ticket in the middle of rushhour? If there has to be ticket, why can it not be mailed to the TTC (who tracks operator-vehicle assignments)
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Another Sydney Public Transport project nearing completion down under (also to open this winter). I just want to make sure people know about it not just Sydney Metro City and Southwest (M1).
Note: penalties apply for use of the term transit.
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@not_taylorx
Ford comes across to me as a more traditional conservative who is about lower taxes, private enterprise, and not interested in social debates like some other conservatives nowadays.
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Toronto uses property taxes to fund services we depend on as a city. And many of those services like the TTC are not keeping up with demand let alone getting any better (faster, more reliable, and more frequent, safer)!
Everyone's talking about property taxes increasing, but not the important services they pay for -- like the
#TTC
.
Can you help speak up for transit & the Scarborough busway? Deadline to register to speak at a Budget Meeting is TODAY by 4:30pm. More info:
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Upon entering the station, there is a useful local area map and station map (even for simple stations that really don’t need it, like every light rail stop). This helps one orient oneself, especially when alighting at underground stations like Kings Cross.
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@the_transit_guy
I would give him a personal cop for protection. Anyone who goes to fast past him or drives to close, automatically gets written up by Constable Telescope Protection.
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ONXpress
@DB_Bahn
will use
@GOTransit
expansion as a learning opportunity and model for improving rail service in Germany with Ontario profits going to support German rail improvements.
>[GO Expansion] will serve as a model for the German transport system
the glazing is crazy
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We need to amalgamate station names and remove ambiguous duplicative station names across the GTHA so it functions as a single network. This applies to stations like Bloor, Danforth, Main, Dundas West, Oriole, Leslie, Eglinton, and Woodbine.
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@githii
@PicturesFoIder
Did the police chief get what he wanted? The friend deserves jail.
It would freaky for tve passengers and the driver of the bus who may have saw that (there are cameras/mirrors).
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@RM_Transit
Those buses need their own lane. Take the lane beside the bike lane and paint it red ASAP
@cityoftoronto
@TTChelps
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@fictillius
Double the fine and add jail time. Make sure she doesn't get to enjoy her house that she built on illegally cleared land but can enjoy the fine hospitality of NSW Corrective Services.
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Most stations have clear and consistent signage designs guiding you to exits and platforms. Since most maps are used by the same trains all the time, displays will show maps and next services for each platform at top of stairs.
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@MassJumbo
I asked my dad (tunneling engineer) about this for reasons: probably has to do with state/city not wanting to have to procure underground easements to tunnel under people's properties, which would cost money. Also avoid NIMBY fear of trains underground being noisy (they're not).
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The Front-Spadina station being planned for Barrie Line should serve all lines (call it Cityplace Station) and we need a similar one in the east at Cherry or Sherbourne. At a minimum.
downtown stations in Toronto (Union) vs downtown stations in Philadelphia. GO expansion is a great project, but if we're going to do this much, we should go all the way and build a true S-Bahn station.
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@macsquirelera
HMS now stands for His Majesty's Ship with the passing of the late Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the ascension of His Majesty King Charles III
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@TTChelps
I’m not complaining about the employee or specific vehicle (hence why I didn’t include it). Is it still policy to have the two rows of seats beside the cab blocked on T1 trains as was practice during the pandemic’s height? If so I respect that. If not, I’ve seen it on all T1s.
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@TTChelps
So those seats should now be opened up on Line 2 trains. I haven’t seen that yet so please look into it.
Thanks for the details.
Have a great rest of your day.
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@_jameshatfield_
@AmericanFietser
Well, why can't Florida do what Brisbane has done.
Hate to break it to you, Florida is not the only hot place in the world.
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@jedwinmok
@PYZC773
York Region doesn't know how to run buses, they just steal provincial money to build transit temples that they keep clean of transit vehicles (God forbid we contaminate our shiny BRT with actual buses)
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@FirstClassDuck
@ttcriders
Do you know Toronto? The idea is the neighbouring agencies already run the services but can’t carry Torontonians, so TTC must run its own service. The idea is to keep TTC service to maintain capacity (short term) and let TTC passengers use the 905 buses.
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@_jameshatfield_
@AmericanFietser
Have you ever been on a bus or train? All modern vehicles have air conditioning except for like the London Underground and systems that can't be bothered to buy a new train.
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Sydney Light Rail Tram raising pantograph at Town Hall. Uses Alstom’s ground power system between Circular Quay and Town Hall. Unlike Toronto streetcars, there is level boarding at stops and George Street (where this is) is pedestrianized with general car traffic prohibited.
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@griffonboi
@GOtransit
Yes there is. I was joking about going and sitting in the cab. Hahaha 🤣
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@Sean_YYZ
Just PEDESTRIANIZE the street already.
Or is it illegal to pedestrianize in Toronto?
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So true. The One Fare Program is not full fare integration. It excludes
@UPexpress
, as well as fully excluding passes and single tickets. We need full fare integration with a single fare system agnostic to operator and mode!
Torontos one fare system is good except that it leaves GO and the subway as two entirely different fare systems. Squaring this circle is either going to lead to massively underusing GO as with RR systems in the US, or implementing distance based fares on the subway.
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@SuperMessi10i
@sasponella
For crying out loud, he said he served in the Singapore military for 2.5 years, so he's a decently patriotic Singaporean
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@PYZC773
On the other hand:
99 B-Line in Vancouver is famously called the busiest bus line in North America (about 30000 daily riders post-pandemic).
Schedule:
Every 3-4 minutes peak, every 6-8 minutes off-peak, every 10-15 minutes late night.
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@anselsusername
4th and King would be important for interchange to Muni's T line/Central Subway. It seems like basically a shoulder station for the San Francisco CBD, like Toronto's East Harbour or Sydney's Redfern.
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Maybe these have been posted already but these are some site plan submissions to the city for
@ScarbSubwayEXT
. First: Lawrence East Station which will have a small unpaid bus loop for local buses and two elevators per wide side platform. Roomy station!
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@Cycling_Embassy
@cityoftoronto
Do this for every intersection of bike lanes in the city! Now we are talking about how streets should be in our city. Thank you so much 🤗
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@Simply_Railway
Via Rail is starting up open-access operations in France. Just waiting for certification for their old 1950s coaches and locomotives. They will feature long boarding lineups where everyone's baggage is weighed and only one door to the entire train is used.
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@KennyGoo
@Navglad
@julestrainman
Not necessarily true. Ontario's GO Transit has signed plans to upgrade our network for service every 10 or so minutes, electric trains with fast acceleration/deceleration. European mainline with modern signaling can support smaller 2man crews (one driver and one guard).
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@FlavioVolpe1
There is no room for cars in downtown Toronto and no parking, of course there is traffic when more people are driving into the city then can fit.
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This is why fare and service integration is so important. Allows people to take advantage of transit services that are there, hiding in plain site, but not taken advantage of. So much more important in Toronto, where we are spending billions to run at headways <15 minutes allday.
If the wait for this train was <15 mins, it’d be the fastest way downtown for me. Unfortunately, it��s scheduled for hourly headways and requires a separate fare instead of a transfer that it could’ve been, like with CTA & Pace
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Look at this. Right now a MiWay bus on Bloor St. West is coming sooner to Dundas and Auckland then the TTC bus. But
@ATUlocal113
and
@ttcriders
supporting them would rather you wait 8 more minutes waiting for the TTC bus rather than get to you destination sooner!
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@FirstClassDuck
But it is still wrong, especially when a transit advocacy group like
@ttcriders
co-opts their demands without thinking.
Also the neighbouring agencies are all also unionized municipal operators except for YRT with us privately contracted out but still unionized.
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@euro_projects
@TTChelps
@yarratrams
Will you send a driver to the European Tramdriver Championship to represent you and your countries (Canada and Australia) in the rising sports of Tram bowling, perfect stop , and tram billards?
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Neat story: In the 1960s, the TTC bought PCC streetcars from American cities getting rid of them, including pre-Rosa-Parks Birmingham AL. Along with technical changes like doors, power systems, gauge (Toronto gauge) and TTC paint scheme, TTC removed all segregation signs.
Diversity: (photos are at random) New York is incredibly diverse+ I love it because it has black areas that thrive. Toronto really surprised me. It doesn’t feel as diverse at the surface level but the actual people are very diverse and there’s much less disparities across groups
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@TokyoWarfare
@Cycling_Embassy
No, should be a lot nicer. Bikes yield to pedestrians and are lower speed than big cars. The sidewalks and crosswalks are also set back from traffic thanks to the bike lane and corner islands.
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Toronto needs to see how our streetcar can be efficient and reliable mass transit like LRT/Tramways in Europe. Here are some examples from my trip to Sydney NSW. George Street is a pedestrianized tram street in the CBD serving shops and offices.
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@RM_Transit
All European HS lines use local rail rights of way to get into the city centre. Toronto is easy, with the many MX rail corridors that can be used. You don't need to go superfast into downtown, just 100km/hr or so, because the removal of a suburban transfer is a big point!
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@TrueBelievers15
I love Sydney’s commitment to modal colour coding through to the end. Orange signs for trains, red for light rail, green for ferries, teal for metro, and blue for buses until the end of the world.
Others must comment on legibility. The orange is borderline, good thing not yellow
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@BikewaysTO
@jen_keesmaat
Also, that community should get sidewalks. All streets with speed limits of 40 or higher should get sidewalks.
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@feraljokes
FYI: Canada Border Services Agency will deny non-Canadians (including Americans) entry to Canada on grounds of serious criminality if you have a DUI.
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@_ChanFace
Well compared to TTC's we will run a dozen buses an hour in mixed traffic dodging lawless drivers serving stops that are glass shacks with a pole that is hard to understand. But in York Region, God forbid we run bus service worthy of expansive glass shelters and dedicated lanes.
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@AlexanderGlista
I'm warming up to the idea that if this city (which is acting like its Bankrupt) can't afford to put in the LRT we should at least put bus lanes in for the 114 bus route to keep it reliable and stimulate demand until the province/feds fund it during the next election vote buying.
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@RM_Transit
@DechampsAlan
Let's also add:
Open payment
More frequent GO trains (EXO frequency is a disgrace to society)
More and bigger expansion plans
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This is why fare and service integration is so critical. In Australia and Europe this would be one station, CTA Platforms 1 and 2, Metra platforms 3 and 4 with a walkway connecting the two. Fare integration allows customers to use all available services to get places faster!
If we didn’t build silos for transit, Metra’s Evanston Davis Street station (left) and CTA’s Davis station (right) would be considered one station with four platforms.
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@philmarfisi
@macsquirelera
I might have seen something like that from NJB on Mastodon.
Which is (1) incredibly elitist and (2) depressing and (3) ignorant of all the efforts being made in places like Toronto already.
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@EricDLombardi
They cannot because the province does not allow it. The province does not have the nerve to be like other jurisdictions and enforce its laws. In Australia, they have bus lane, seatbelt, mobile phone, red light, and speed cameras, which can be used on any road as long as signed.
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@justinzollars
@Caltrain
@Stanford
@cityofpaloalto
Electric trains are capable of accelerating and decelerating much quicker than diesel trains, especially acceleration (while not affecting passenger comfort). This can yield a travel time savings of 10-30% or even more depending on stop density based on
@GOtransit
's studies.
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Sydney Metro City and Southwest is already completed between Chatswood and Sydenham via Central and will be opening in a few months. At Sydenham, the train monitors are already active for the new metro side platforms.
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Nice second entrance at Museum Station though it looks like construction is not fully completed yet, with some finishes temporary or covered over.
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The following agencies would be Metrolinx contractors:
TTC
MiWay
Brampton Transit
Burlington Transit
Oakville Transit
Milton Transit
GRT
DRT
YRT (dissolved after contractors transferred to MX)
HSR
Niagara Region Transit
Guelph Transit
Barrie Transit
BWG Transit
Others?
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@TTChelps
@angelennak
@TTCnotices
You mean Broadview, or has an extension to Broadway in Vancouver or New York City just opened
@TransLink
@MTA
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@Dr_Zhiva
@ShitpostGate
Trying to be helpful. US flights land in a special transborder part of Canadian airports so it’s reminding those arrivals that though they arrive in special hall, they’re still foreigners seeking entry to Canada (the customs facilities frequently shared between Int’l and USA)
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