I am beginning to wonder whether we should just get rid of the TTC and City Council, including the Mayor, and just appoint the members of the Budget Advisory Committee as transit dictators for life.
Once again, a proposal by the TTC to buy new streetcars rather than rebuilding all of the CLRV fleet failed at BAC yesterday by a vote of 4 to 2. Continue reading
May’s TTC meeting included a comprehensive presentation on the streetcar fleet situation in response to the Commission’s clear desire to proceed with plans for new cars as soon as possible. The intent is to take this presentation (along with the Bus Fleet Plan described in a separate post) to Budget Advisory Committee on June 9, to Policy & Finance on June 20, and to Council on June 27. Continue reading
Those of you who follow other Toronto blogs will already have read much of the update on the new subway cars. You can read the spacing wire coverage here.
A few additional tidbits: Continue reading
Another batch of mail from readers: Continue reading
It’s unusual for folks like me who run a blog to reply to a letter that has not yet been seen by most of the public. However, there are times when advocates need to jump in with both feet. Continue reading
The responses to the RT issue have kept me busy, and now it’s time to deal with the backlog of mail again. Continue reading
After last week’s TTC meeting, an article appeared in the National Post claiming that the TTC had just authorized purchase of 96 new streetcars from Siemens. Continue reading
Here’s a streetcar design that’s been around for a while, and it served us all well. We could have had a new generation of these cars back in the 1970s, but Queen’s Park and the UTDC gave us the CLRV instead. The Edsel of the streetcar, as a former Chief General Manager once said.
Here is a PDF version of a single file rather than four separate images.
Updated February 7, 2018 with higher resolution images.
TTC plans for a new streetcar fleet moved onto the front burner at the April 19th meeting of the Commission. After a staff update on the CLRV rebuild program and possible timetables for new streetcar purchases, the Commission decided that:
It’s time to catch up on the backlog of comments. Here are several that came in about various aspects of streetcar operations over the past weeks: Continue reading
Steve Munro 