Tag Archives: transit
20161201. LRV in the landscape. A new TTC streetcar turns around at the Fleet Street Loop.
20161118. A TTC Flexity Outlook LRV rises from the underground.
20161117. Leaving Union Station heading westbound.
20161030. Heading in to the underground at Spadina Station.
20161025. A TTC Flexity Outlook LRV (light rail vehicle / streetcar) heads underground on route to Union Station.
20161020. Getting close to TTC’s Flexity streetcar fleet.
20161020a. 4417 vs. 4425. Two TTC 510 Spadina Flexity streetcars (LRVs) meet at Queen and Spadina. Vehicle 4425 is the latest to enter service.
20161020b. Narrowly dodging a TTC Flexity Outlook streetcar on Queens Quay.
20160812. A Toronto TTC Flexity Outlook LRV does the Charlotte Loop (510 Spadina).
20160622. An aerial view of Toronto Union Station’s historic exposed train shed steel structure.
Progress on the train shed has stalled as the future electrification of Go Transit trains will require either modifying the overhead wiring system to fit under the shed, lowering the floor or raising the roof with the latter being the worst case scenario as it involves considerable cost and harming the historic steel structure.
20160616. The Bessarian perspective on TTC’s Sheppard Line.
20160612. TTC’s Wilson Station mushroom.
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20160609. Presto fare gates have replaced the old turnstiles at TTC’s Wellesley Station.
20160530. Floating Flexity streetcar at TTC’s Leslie Barns Maintenance and Storage Facility.
20160528. Toronto’s first new Flexity LRV (streetcar) 4401 prepares for warp speed.
Ok, in reality it sits in the paint booth at the new TTC Leslie Streetcar Barns during Doors Open Toronto 2016.
20160510. An aerial view of TTC’s original Eglinton Station bus terminal – soon to be a memory.
This is where the tunnel boring machines that have completed tunneling the western leg of the Eglinton Crosstown LRT will be extracted.
20160502. TTC’s Davisville substation buildings provide a fine example of contextual design in shape, orientation and detailing.
Pardoning the architectural nomenclature, note:
a) how the base course on each building (the stone band running the length of the building) is at the same height;
b) the cornice of the newer building is at the same height of the older building with the additional height of the former in a different colour
c) the masonry is similar in colour and the stone bands equal in number
d) the windows are similar; and
e) although hard to see, the older building and the newer building are each trapezoidal in shape and both buildings fit into a combined trapezoid.
The result is a simple yet elegant addition to a historical building.
20160501. A shiny and just like new TTC automated entrance way. Can you guess which subway station?
20160422. Toronto’s Union Pearson Express, busier and cheaper than ever, is ready to take off from downtown.
20160407. A platform with a view.
20160313. A discounted UP Express train races below Toronto’s Bathurst Street bridge.
20160310. The cavernous Leslie station on the underused Sheppard Line.
20160127. 20 refueled GO trains get ready to go!
20160122. Toronto Osgoode Station’s new look – better than before but not as good as the days of yore.
20160114. White lines on the Sheppard subway line.
20160111. A matrix of scaffolding floats above the stairs in Toronto’s Union Station Great Hall.
