Toronto Eglinton Line 5 | ?m | ?s | Metrolinx | Arcadis

[Richard White]

City of Toronto "source"? If not link please.

Excuse the skepticism

 

[txlseries4]

Josh Colle just now has said, at a storm update with the mayor, that Line 5 will not first open up with full hours and instead will expand to a full opening when key metrics are hit.

 

[rbt]

Josh Colle just now has said, at a storm update with the mayor, that Line 5 will not first open up with full hours and instead will expand to a full opening when key metrics are hit.

Hopefully the staircase at ET Seaton park operates with full hours.

 

[thettctransitfanatic]

Josh Colle just now has said, at a storm update with the mayor, that Line 5 will not first open up with full hours and instead will expand to a full opening when key metrics are hit.

This was already planned and it's the same situation as Line 6

 

[PL1]

The most exciting part of this project for me is the staircase at ET Seaton park. Hopefully it operates with full hours.

That staircase has been complete, yet fenced off, for 3+ years. I know it was part of the overall contract, but it really ought to have been opened years ago.

 

[Allandale25]

Eglinton LRT question this morning from the media to the Minister and CEO Michael Lindsay at an unrelated GO announcement in Whitby. Time-marked link to the response.

Another question here:

 

[Bojaxs]

Josh Colle just now has said, at a storm update with the mayor, that Line 5 will not first open up with full hours and instead will expand to a full opening when key metrics are hit.

Sounds like they know the line is going to disappoint. They have little to no confidence in the line performing as intended. They're getting their excuses ready for the public and media.

They're going to lean hard on the "soft opening" narrative.

 

[McGillicuddy]

"The new transit line opening five years late will have a shaky launch" is not an interesting take, and you don't need to reheat it every time a new piece of information about the line emerges.

 

[Bojaxs]

"The new transit line opening five years late will have a shaky launch" is not an interesting take, and you don't need to reheat it every time a new piece of information about the line emerges.

All you do is post one liner, jabs at people you disagree with on this forum.

Feel free to share your "interesting takes" with the rest of us.

 

[McGillicuddy]

All you do is post one liner, jabs at people you disagree with on this forum.

Feel free to share your "interesting takes" with the rest of us.

I feel like I give people the treatment they deserve.

 

[Bojaxs]

I feel like I give people the treatment they deserve.

Funny, I feel the same way.

 

[McGillicuddy]

Funny, I feel the same way.

Then perhaps next time you'll take the note.

 

[Chaplinurbex]

How about we just see what it's like when it opens?

 

[generalcanada]

oh look the 2020 date is being brought up again.

 

[urbanclient]

mandate TTC to meet certain operating speed criteria

Where does this mandate to "go slow" come from?

I don't think slow speeds are as simple as blaming it all on Crosslinx like @smallspy is claiming: see the too many cooks in the kitchen analogy or the 3 spider-mans pointing at each other situation from the Finch thread.

Too many let their personal politics cloud their judgment to the point where they are almost saying:
X party is bad--->X party is involved in Y project--->X party is wholly to blame for this particular Y project problem. See screenshot for related case:

All you do is post one liner, jabs at people you disagree with on this forum.

Feel free to share your "interesting takes" with the rest of us.

I feel like I give people the treatment they deserve.

They are a reactionary who only wants to hear positive news about LRT projects. A cognitive shift is unlikely with deeply entrenched system justification bias.

They don't want to hear about problems, but they also have little interest in understanding the nuances required to solve them. See: them telling me to shut up when I pointed out the TTC Board confirmed end-to-end travel times of ≥50 minutes on December 10th.

They 'feel', not 'analyze' or 'reason critically'.

Same logic as the pervasive intellectually incurious hand-waving: 'do it like they do in Europe'.