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Hi folks. Just curious about everyone’s favourite bits of public art around the TTC. Spadina Summer Under All Seasons at Dupont and The Commuters at St Clair West are among mine (and both featured on my Heritage Toronto tour of TTC public art which runs for the first time tomorrow!)

I’m taking the 510 now, and I noticed only certain intersections (Dundas, College) get priority from left turns.

Anyone know when it’ll get rolled out at all intersections?

TL:DR: If elected, the 506 would get full unconditional signal priority, dual point switches, level boarding.

As well as modern signs showing when the next streetcar will arrive, benches at streetcar stops, and dedicated space from Yonge to Manning Ave.

If this goes through, this would be a clear model to implement on other troublesome routes like the Queen and Dundas streetcars!

To save the air conditioning system on the streetcars during this heat wave, the TTC has asked its streetcar drivers to not open the doors, but have riders do it themselves. This is to keep the air conditioning units on the streetcars from getting over stressed. This applies to all streetcars, including those on lines 5&6.

Hello. I have cash funds (about $20) on my Presto Card (Apple Wallet) but decided to add a TTC Monthly Pass for July on the same card.

When I tap my card next time, will my funds be deducted from the cash or will my TTC pass be automatically used?

I know this came up the other day and there were many comments saying this specific scenario was a non-starter because the transfer is valid as long as you board within the window. She specifically told me that, even tho I had tapped at 10:43, my transfer expired at 10:56 (original tap was 8:56) and it was now 11:05. I had to get off anyway so she let me go, but just a heads up.

So I forgot to pay for the streetcar as I thought I had a paper transfer on me which was really stupid on my part. I got caught at Bathurst and said to the POO stupidly, that I didn’t pay and I was flustered and frustrated by encountering them and didn’t get out my words correctly. From my understanding what I said in the moment is legally binding regardless of my blunder, so I’m not going to fight the ticket that way. I just want to know what I can do to pay the ticket. I’m a student and this is a lot of money for me and I was wondering if there was a way to do in monthly payments instead or reducing it. Please let me know

I think this is long overdue. 👍

They are checking Presto cards on people as they come from the bus bay area towards the subway stairs. This morning they were also on the bus bays talking with people.

Just wanted to shout out the staff of the ttc, all the workers and volunteers assisting this crazy month and keeping it chill. Toronto holds a large scale Pride every year, and with FIFA on top, it has been a lot for the city to handle, as well as the other early summer festivities. I'm really happy to see that it was able to do so, and that as a transit user, all the main stations I was at had friendly and perceptive staff ready to assist in navigating the journeys.

There wasn't even more delays than usual imo. I've noticed the last little while less delays as a whole than 5 or so months ago perhaps? Used to be 1/3 times I rode there was some issue or delay. In the last while it's been much more reliable. All and all I am very happy to be in a place with such efficiency for such high-stress environment.

Edit: oh my god the ac today is actually a life saver. They are blasting that shit in this heat wave and I am now a ttc simp TwT Thank you to all the people who have worked so hard this season to make moving through the city easy and stable.

Heads up Uni-Rosedale! Gabe Blanc (the ward candidate) announced if elected, he'll push for RapidTO lanes for the 506 College streetcar from Yonge to Manning Ave.

Not only that, he'll push for dual-point switches, full unconditional signal priority, and a left turn ban along the route.

This would shorten the travel time from Yonge to Little Italy in just 10 minutes.

Please sign/share to make this badly-needed change a reality,

and if you live in University-Rosedale and want a better TTC, this is the candidate to keep an eye on.

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I don't live in Uni Rosedale, but I ran into Gabe at the Church St pedestrian pilot and I think he'd be a great councillor

Jays fans, Canada shirts and soccer balls everywhere, Pride Pride Pride in all its colours, bikinis, and mesh, soooo many women in cowboy boots/knee highs heading north to something, tourists snapping shots of their families, and just a massive, positive hustle and bustle. Genuinely so lively because of the flurry of events happening. Toronto felt extra cool today.