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so I took a huge break from track (about 7 months) and I plan on training again but I want to built strength & speed in the mean time. my off season training of 3 days(Mon,Wed,Fri) (nothing back to back) will run into early September. for as hard as I train I plan on recovering very strongly to have my body very strong going into September. my big question is can I get in 3 days of sprints or should I keep it at 2(Mon & Fri)? I could also jump to 3 days going into the last 3 weeks before base training starts. any and all input is greatly appreciated :)

though he has genuinely made good decisions on bus routes & station improvements, WHY is an Archeology major the head of a transit company 🤨i get he could’ve learned as a “transit analyst” post graduation in his endeavours but there are some glaring flaws. His strength was bus & station improvements and he should’ve kept it at that. could’ve done AMAZING w/ BRT lines tbh that would’ve built up ridership for future grade separated/underground heavy rail transit

according to Wikipedia (copy pasting verbatim), As chair of the TTC, Giambrone oversaw a large expansion of bus service in Toronto, which saw then-record ridership, and the launch of a new, improved TTC website electronic service advisories, as well as next vehicle arrival information systems, and an affinity discount program for the Metropass. Some of these ideas were discussed at Transit Camp, a community consultation early in his term as chair.

Giambrone also established the station modernization and station renaissance renewal programs for TTC subway stations, the latter in conjunction with the Toronto Community Foundation. Giambrone also started a program to install bicycle racks on all TTC buses.

reading the article (https://nowtoronto.com/news/lrts-better-than-subways-by-miles/), one of the glaring issues Transit City had that would later define Line 6 Finch West‘s performance, is how they treated speed and performance. One line in the article states “Our vehicles will move at 22 to 24 kph, less than the subway’s average speed of 32 to 34 kph, but since the average TTC trip is just over 6 km (verses the average GO trip of 31 km), this speed difference will amount to only a few minutes per ride. In a trip from Don Mills and Eglinton to Yonge, for instance, that time gap might be only five or six minutes, hardly worth billions of dollars.” not Kennedy Stn to Yonge, DON MILLS to Yonge. Losing 5-6 mins on a very short distance just goes to show their main goal was “look! we’re gonna implement a big shiny cheap train, vote for us!” and will justify its performance with its “lower” price tag. THATS called DIET RAPID TRANSIT ladies and gentlemen. He also stated that Proof of Payment will somehow be different from streetcars which in the present day it isn’t, fare inspectors slow it down. Light rail is inherently flawed due to no doors meaning poor fare box recovery. Legend has it metrolinx still doesn’t understand the concept of doors.

Seattle and San Francisco have already figured out fare gates boost fare box recovery, overall cleanliness of the line, and the obvious, treating it like a proper metro.

one big takeaway from all this is that North American transit agencies are inherently flawed because they don’t hire actual ENGINEERS or people that understand transit flows for the job. The failure comes down to the hiring process.

Adam Giambrone’s Wikipedia page. Read under the Toronto councillor & TTC chairman sections to judge for yourself.

takeaways(map 3 puts the priorities in order w/ Red>Blue>Light Blue):

• Eglinton’s ridership from Weston rd to Don Mills was more than the old 196 York University Rocket bus.
• the Extension through York University well outperformed the bus it replaced which shows when a subway extension is placed well through key points, will do well which needs to be known more for ones through universities. Good job to the extension (York U & Pioneer Village do great numbers)
• North York & eventual Toronto mayor Mel Lastman wanted the city to look into what transit was right for Eglinton since they lost out on a subway. But if the subway was originally built & outperformed Sheppard which seems like it would’ve, ”White Elephant” conversations would’ve gone away and an extension to Don Mills would’ve been the next priority.
• had it not been for the 2015 Pan Am Games & a push from Vaughan, Eglinton would’ve had an extension as Eglinton station was easily around 80 000 people daily for Line 1 despite no feeder line like how Sheppard-Yonge had Line 4 and had just under 80k for Line 1.
• Transit City, if it formed, would’ve at least had a gap along Eglinton until Don Mills the way maps had Line 4 always keep a gap from Yonge to Downsview(now Sheppard West) Station.
• Line 2 and in turn Bloor-Yonge station would’ve been relieved with Line 5 being a parallel line, and Don Mills & Eglinton being a station would’ve probably influenced the old relief line plan to stick around as there would’ve been more of a push to finish that line off there rather than Pape, BUT if costs continued to rise, it could’ve coincided with Doug Ford coming into power at that time and going the light metro route & like in our timeline, getting the Ontario line through. It could ALSO be said that Line 5 could’ve had a yard for Toronto Rocket trains around thorncliffe park, where the Ontario line is set to store cars now, so the downtown relief line could’ve been using the Toronto Rocket cars

The World team was made up of 7 people & in the battle against both groups, Shinobu & Yoshio battled regular and Zyro & Kira battled w/ synchromes. more importantly Kira is using an R2F performance tip. So what was the format of the world tournament? if the series continued I’m sure there would’ve been synchrome based battles, so much money to be made irl with it too. but how would 7 play out? I’m guessing the 1st blader has to battle w/ synchrome(can use any partners bey), the 2nd has to battle standard(but could also battle w/ the warrior wheel down rather than above), the 3rd and 4th have to strictly pair up & battle symchrome & can’t hand their warrior wheel to the 1st blader, the remaining 3 are a tag team/1 jack of all trades sub that can join either a teammate to synchrome battle or be a sub for a singles blader.

7 bladers is also so much, the other teams may not even get to develop characters for the series. Bakugan proved when WELL ORGANIZED 6 characters can be developed concurrently. Beyblade doesn’t really have an elemental thing but Zero-G could’ve played into the element wheel thing but the 4 bey types can be or some help.

AGAIN THIS COULD ALL BE POOR EDITING CONTINUITY but let me know what you as fans see