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TTC Director of Communications Brad Ross says:
I wish I could respond with the answer I think you want to read, but I can’t. In short, the Sunday morning subway start time of 9 a.m. won’t be changing anytime soon.
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When the subway closes each night, an army (or maybe it’s a battalion) of maintenance crews descend into the tunnels and begin a wide range of work including: sweeping and cleaning debris from the track to prevent fires; rail and switch inspections; rail and switch replacement where required; repairing decaying tunnel concrete damaged by ground-water leaks; removing asbestos, replacing burned-out lights; re-cabling and replacing the signal system on the Yonge-University-Spadina line with an Automatic Train Control system; and, of course, station cleaning and maintenance that can’t occur when passengers and trains are in the stations.
Much of the work is time-consuming and requires crews to set up in the tunnel for hours at a time. Sunday mornings give our maintenance crews AN ADDITIONAL THREE HOURS to complete much of the routine and specialized work required to ensure the system remains reliable and safe.
On any given weekday, maintenance crews have just three hours to get to a work location, set up, complete the work, pack up, and return to the yard. Sundays, though, afford us with additional time to complete the routine work but also more complex tasks.
If the TTC were to narrow that Sunday morning maintenance window, some of those complex tasks would not get finished. The result, then, would likely require a disruption to normal service to get the job done; assuming emergency repairs don’t cause us to do that sooner, at a much less convenient time for you, the rider.
Simply put, subway systems require constant and vigilant maintenance. Toronto’s system does not have a network of redundant or express track to fall back on when the mainline needs work. Keeping that Sunday morning window open, therefore, equals a more reliable and safer subway system.
Finally, the TTC does run a network of buses and streetcars on twenty-four routes when the subway is closed—the Blue Night Network. The two routes that replace the subway—320 Yonge and 300 Bloor-Danforth—are the most frequently used routes on the network. The TTC is committed to ensuring people who need to get around, whether at 4 a.m. on Tuesday or 8 a.m. on Sunday, can do so on public transit.
TTC Director of Communications Brad Ross says:
For whatever reason, they cannot efficiently run the system they have.
A lot of tax is paid in this city, but it seems to be being raked off elsewhere.
originally posted by: intrptr
a reply to: ipsedixit
A lot of tax is paid in this city, but it seems to be being raked off elsewhere.
Do you guys elect your officials? Dot they have term limit? Do they somehow endure in office despite that?
To your thread. At least you have subways up there. I live on the west coast. we don't know from sub way except it being a sammich shop.
originally posted by: Iamthatbish
The buses near DC are on GPS. They are monitored so closely the buses can't leave early and will wait at stops if they get ahead so all the transferring can be done properly.
There's no way these buses would be able to not finish a route. Maybe you could write a letter suggesting a better way to solve the issue.
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97.6% of customers arrive on time