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Ottawa Citizen
6 days ago
- General
- Ottawa Citizen
Ottawa LRT service to be disrupted by summer maintenance work
OC Transpo has announced a schedule for summer maintenance operations and O-Train East Extension integration that will cause temporary disruptions of Line 1 LRT service. Article content Article content The required adjustments, detailed in a Friday memo to the mayor and city councillors from transit general manager Renée Amilcar, include: Article content June 6 after 9 p.m.: R1 replacement bus service between Tunney's Pasture and Hurdman stations; LRT service will continue between uOttawa and Blair stations. June 7 after 10 p.m., June 8 after 7 p.m., and June 12 after 10 p.m.: R1 buses between Rideau and Blair stations; LRT service will continue between Tunney's Pasture and uOttawa stations. June 14-15 all day, June 22 between 8 a.m. and 12 noon, and June 29 between 8 a.m. and 12 noon: R1 buses between Tunney's Pasture and Blair stations. Article content Article content Amilcar's memo said all rail systems required regular maintenance operations to support 'the long-term sustainability and reliability of the system.' In addition, she wrote, OC Transpo had co-ordinated with the Stage 2 LRT project and the city's Infrastructure and Water Services Department to address multiple priorities. Article content Article content • Adjustments to track electrical grounding near Tunney's Pasture Station. Article content • General station maintenance and seasonal cleaning. Article content Article content • Continued testing and integration of the Stage 2 O-Train East Extension with Line 1. Article content Article content Additional work will be necessary to complete testing of the Line 1 extension east from Blair Station this summer, the memo added. 'It is also anticipated that additional Stage 2 integration work will occur on the weekends of July 5 and July 26 that will affect Line 1 service. More information on specific service adjustments will be provided closer to these dates. It is also anticipated that there will be additional impacts to Line 1 throughout the summer as the O-Train East Extension testing and commissioning progresses and, in the fall, to conduct rail grinding.' Article content
CTV News
7 days ago
- Business
- CTV News
Here's when O-Train Line 1 service will be shutdown for maintenance this spring and summer
An O-Train on Line 1 pulls into Bayview Station in this undated image. (Natalie van Rooy/CTV News Ottawa) O-Train Line 1 will be shut down several times through the spring and summer for annual maintenance and work required for the O-Train East Extension integration ahead of the launch of service between Blair and Trim Road later this year. In a memo to council, Transit Services general manager Renée Amilcar announced the plan for upcoming service adjustments on the Confederation Line in June and July. 'All rail systems require regular maintenance to support the long-term sustainability and reliability of the system,' Amilcar said. 'This year, in addition to working with Rideau Transit Maintenance (RTM), OC Transpo has coordinated with the Stage 2 project and Infrastructure and Water Services Department (IWSD) in order to address multiple priorities in parallel to minimize the number of disruptions to rail service for customers.' Maintenance activities in June include: Line 1 train control server upgrades Localized rail replacement at 'specific locations' Ongoing upgrades of supporting wires on the overhead catenary system 'to make them more resilient and durable.' Adjustments to track electrical grounding near Tunney's Pasture Station General station maintenance and seasonal cleaning Testing and integration of the Stage 2 O-Train East Extension with Line 1 Here is the planned service adjustments for O-Train Line 1 June 6: No LRT service between Tunney's Pasture and Hurdman after 9 p.m. June 7: No LRT service between Rideau Station and Blair Station after 10 p.m. June 8: No LRT service between Rideau and Blair stations after 7 p.m. June 12: No LRT service between Rideau and Blair stations after 10 p.m. June 14-15: No LRT service all weekend. R1 bus service running along the O-Train Line June 22 and June 29: No LRT service between 8 a.m. and 12 p.m. R1 bus service running along the O-Train Line OC Transpo OC Transpo announced planned closures for O-Train Line 1 between June 6 and 29. (OC Transpo release) R1 replacement bus service will run in areas where the LRT system is out of service for maintenance. Amilcar says additional Stage 2 integration work will occur on the weekends of July 5 and July 26 that will affect Line 1 service. 'Every effort has been made to conduct Stage 2 integration work at the same time as other maintenance activities; however, additional service adjustments are required to complete testing activities,' Amilcar said. 'It is also anticipated that there will be additional impacts to Line 1 throughout the summer as the O-Train East Extension testing and commissioning progresses and, in the fall, to conduct rail grinding.'
Yahoo
28-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Matthew Lau: Toronto the Good's continuing downward slide
Toronto, where I have lived my whole life, certainly has high points. There is the financial district, which is the second largest financial centre in North America and home to several good coffee shops. Toronto also features some excellent cuisine. Tyler Cowen, who in 2011 was listed among Foreign Policy's top 100 global thinkers and whose blog with Alex Tabarrok Time magazine ranked third-best financial blog, once concluded after a restaurant tour of Scarborough plus rolls from a Sri Lankan locale and lots of driving around, 'Scarborough is the best ethnic food suburb I have seen in my life, ever, and by an order of magnitude.' With all it has going for it, Toronto really should be a world-class city. But I fear if it continues on its current path, it will instead become an honorary third-world city — certainly with respect to the unreliability of its public transit system, its inept municipal management, its descent into lawlessness and social dysfunction, and its NHL team's dismal playoff performance. On this last point, explanations and proposed solutions vary; for the first three the causes are quite clear. If Milton Friedman's classic 1993 essay Why Government is the Problem were being written today, Toronto could feature prominently in it. The unreliability of the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) has recently become intolerable. Last Wednesday during evening rush hour the TTC shut down a significant stretch of its Line 1 subway for two and a quarter hours. Just before 5:30 p.m., service was suspended from Lawrence to St. Clair due to a track-level injury at Eglinton (three stations spanning five kilometres of track). Also around that time, northbound passengers at a major interchange, Bloor-Yonge, were kicked off their train, causing significant overflow that took some time to clear. Later the initial service suspension was extended south to include Bloor-Yonge — making seven stops in all. Service was not restored until around 7:45 p.m. This was the second serious subway outage in less than a week: the previous Thursday, a significant part of the other major line was shut down for much of the day due to an oil leakage from a subway work car. Mass public transit chaos has become almost commonplace since last winter. In mid-December, the TTC experienced lengthy shutdowns during the morning rush hour on no less than three days, with varying causes, including a trespasser on the tracks, multiple signal issues and a lost raccoon wandering the rails. Then in February, extensive TTC delays were blamed on snow and ice. In a further demonstration of the City of Toronto's inability to provide basic municipal services, snow piled up everywhere, with some sidewalks taking three weeks to clear. It was later reported that of the city's 59 pieces of winter sidewalk-clearing equipment, nearly half were out of commission on average during the three days of heaviest snowfall. More evidence of a city headed towards third-world status: increased lawlessness. The joke is that TTC really stands for 'Take The Car,' but last year that became the police's recommended phrase for homeowners to tell criminals. Amidst rising car thefts, one police officer suggested homeowners leave car keys at the front door to prevent a home invasion by criminals: just let the criminals take the car. After reaching all-time highs, car thievery now seems to be abating, but there are other trends in the wrong direction. Matthew Lau: Minimum wages are even more harmful than we thought Matthew Lau: Lessons for Canada in Argentina's newly freed markets There has been an explosion of antisemitic hate crimes in Toronto in the past two years. In recent weeks mobs have continued to attack Jewish businesses and block streets, in one case forcing police to divert an ambulance. There are increasingly common news stories of attacks on and vandalism of synagogues and Jewish businesses, and even antisemitism in public schools. Don't get me wrong. It is still possible to live a good life in Toronto. Trudging 20 or 30 minutes every so often, even in snow or rain, because the TTC has again broken down is not that great a hardship for me. I am only a very casual Leafs fan, Sportsnet turfing Don Cherry in 2019 having dulled my hockey enthusiasm, while the sight of empty arenas during the pandemic killed off most of the rest. But for many other Torontonians, the unreliability of the TTC and other municipal services, the hapless Leafs, the increased crime and the growing antisemitism weigh much more heavily. Toronto still has much to offer, but only if these problems are solved. Solid political leadership and better hockey players are needed. Matthew Lau is a Toronto writer. Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Hindustan Times
22-05-2025
- Hindustan Times
Ten years on, passengers want an upgrade to Metro-1
MUMBAI: Some may call it a success story. But for frequent users of Metro 1, their patience is wearing thin. Long wait times on narrow, overcrowded platforms and a shoulder-to-shoulder commute during peak hours in closed air-conditioned coaches is not what the city promised when it flagged off Mumbai's first metro rail corridor a decade ago. Over the last couple of days, frustration has been spilling over on this Versova-Andheri-Ghatkopar metro corridor. The stations at Ghatkopar, Andheri and Marol are particularly congested. An average 114,500 commuters use Ghatkopar station daily, 83,000 Andheri, and Marol Naka and Saki Naka more than 40,000 a day. During the week, at least twice, passengers complained about stubborn queues near the automatic access control doors and being able to barely squeeze into the coaches. 'There are insane queues on Metro Line 1 at multiple stations, and you feel stuffy inside the AC metro trains during peak hours due to overcrowding. The government must intervene and at least ask the operator to increase the number of coaches,' said Andheri resident Dhaval Shah, who regularly travels on Line-1. A vital east-west connector, Line 1 runs through major commercial hubs in the suburbs. It skirts the international airport, services the area around several luxury hotels, and passes though industrial and commercial areas such as Saki Naka and Marol, not to mention busy neighbourhoods in Andheri. Moreover, Line 1 integrates with other metro rail corridors such as Lines 2A and 7, as well as the railways, an excellent example of multi-modal transport. Now it's time to upgrade. According to statistics provided by Mumbai Metro One Private Limited (MMOPL), which operates Line 1, this corridor caters to 4.55 lakh passengers daily. Footfalls have touched 5 lakh. Commuters are demanding an increase in the frequency of trains from the present 5-6 minutes. They also want coaches to be added to the trains, to increase their carrying capacity, thus bringing down wait times at metro stations. Citizen activist Zoru Bhatena summed it up best when he vented his frustration in a post on X that read: 'Decade-old Metro-1 runs packed on 4-coaches. Brand new Metro-3 runs empty on 8-coaches.' MMOPL said there were no plans to upgrade the system, blaming overcrowding on the ongoing school vacations. In a bid to justify maintaining the status quo, they claim the number of commuters on Line 1 has not risen and the line is being 'managed well'. However, the numbers rose significantly when lines 2A and 7 opened in January 2023, increasing ridership on Line 1 by around 30,000. There is no major contribution to ridership from Line-3,' said an MMOPL official. Transport experts point out that there were plans for the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) to take over operations of Line-1. This might have improved how the line was run. However, those plans fell through.
CTV News
22-05-2025
- General
- CTV News
Subway service resumes on TTC's Line 1 after being suspended for two hours
A Toronto Transit Commission sign is shown in Toronto on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graeme Roy Regular service has resumed on a portion of TTC's Line 1 after being suspended for about two hours during Wednesday's evening rush hour, which made for a difficult commute home for riders. Just before 5:45 p.m., emergency crews responded to an injury on the tracks at Eglinton station, prompting the TTC to suspend service between Lawrence and St. Clair stations. Shuttle buses were deployed to move riders. About an hour later, the TTC announced that trains would also not be running from St. Clair to Bloor-Yonge stations. Service returned to normal just before 7:45 p.m.
