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rfmcdonaldEarly this morning, my RSS feed was filled with reports--from the Toronto Star and from the CBC and from the Transit Toronto blog, among others--about the end of TTC service owing to communications problems. The system was still in a mess towards noon, dropping me off at Yonge and Eglinton twenty minutes late. (16 minutes late for work.)
Stephanie Werner's Toronto Star article "Subway closure this morning left tens of thousands stranded" goes into more detail.
Uber is being criticized for allowing its prices to spike during the morning outage. Me, I'm reminded of our decades of underfunding of the TTC: If we want nice things, we have to pay for them.
Stephanie Werner's Toronto Star article "Subway closure this morning left tens of thousands stranded" goes into more detail.
After a complete system shutdown at 6 a.m., subway service resumed around 7:30 a.m. following what the Toronto Transit Commission described as “major communication issues.”
TTC spokesperson Brad Ross told The Star that subway service was down for a total of 95 minutes Monday morning. At around 6 a.m., he says, TTC lost all communications — including radio, email, and Internet connectivity. The TTC control centre was unable to communicate with trains, resulting in a safety-critical shutdown.
Ross compared trying to operate subway trains without radio communication to “trying to land a plane without having communications with the tower.”
“We don’t understand why the system failed, that’s something we are investigating now,” he said. Still unanswered are questions such as why the backup system did not kick in as designed. A full explanation is expected to be released later Monday.
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When service resumed at 7:30 a.m. there was a 20 to 30 minute delay building up service to normal capacity as some trains had not yet left the yard.
Uber is being criticized for allowing its prices to spike during the morning outage. Me, I'm reminded of our decades of underfunding of the TTC: If we want nice things, we have to pay for them.
