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They did this with the openings of the Harbourfront ROW and Spadina ROW 10 years ago.

52 Fishbowls have recently gone through a refurb program for them to last till 2011-2012 and to replace the Hybrids going out for Battery Replacement. After 2012, all the fishbowls must be gone due to all buses in Ontario having to be accessible or something like that. The PCC's were out on 512 only for the Inaugural Runs. The next time the PCC's are out is Late May. They'll be running every Sunday till Labour Day on 509 Harbourfront.

RECENT NEWS: The St Clair ROW opened up last weekend. The Inaugural Runs were done by PCC's 4500 and 4549. Here are some pictures from that day:

Major Subway Delay inconveniences over 300,000 riders. A construction company was digging on top of a bridge that was directly on top of the subway tunnel. The company dug to deep and ended up exposing part of the subway tunnel. This caused a huge subway shutdown in between Eglinton and Bloor Stns from 2:30pm till 8:30pm. This is the busiest section of the subway line. Up to 80 buses were used on the subway shuttle. Every single bus type in the fleet (From the GM Fishbowls all the way through to the NG's) were used. Wait times to get onto a shuttle bus were upwards to 1h 30m.

Fleet News: Only 134 GM T6H-5307N New Looks and 5 1991 Orion V's remain in the Active Fleet. And with that only 13 Non-Accessible Bus routes left in the system. Also were starting to receive a few of 110 Friendly Buses for our Wheel-Trans service. Numbered W100-W209. Photo By: gmnewlook

Proposed Fare Hikes: Child: 70 cents to 75 cents Senior/Student: $1.85 to $2.00 Adult: $2.75 to $3.00 10 Adult Tokens: $22.50 to $25.00 Adult Metropass: $109.00 to $126.00

Some News: TTC to use new fraud detector: http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/toronto/story.html?id=2166015 TTC fare increase in New Year: http://www.metronews.ca/toronto/comment/article/357290--expect-another-ttc-fare-increase-in-new-year The St.Clair ROW is scheduled to open on December 20, 2009 from St. Clair Station to Earlscourt Loop (Phase 1-3). Phase 4 is currently under construction. Buses will run from Oakwood Loop to Gunns Loop. York University Busway is scheduled to open on November 22, 2009 running between York University and Downsview Station. Routes 104, 105, 117, 196 will be re-routed to use the busway. And a some GTA News. Presto is officially unveiled in Spring 2010 starting with GO Transit's Lakeshore West, Georgetown and Milton GO Rail lines, Oakville Transit, Burlington Transit, and TTC (6 Subway Stations) followed by Fall 2010 GO Transit's Lakeshore East, Barrie and Richmond Hill GO Rail lines and all associated GO Bus routes, Mississauga Transit, Brampton Transit, Hamilton Street Railway and TTC's Kipling and Islington Subway Stations and last but not least Winter 2011: Durham Region Transit, York Region Transit, GO Transit's Stouffville GO Rail line and all remaining GO Bus routes, TTC's Don Mills, Downsview and Finch Subway Stations, and OC Transpo (Ottawa)

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TTC revenue down, fare hike possible http://www.cp24.com/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20090923/090923_TTC/20090923/?hub=CP24Home

None that I know of so far. But there's a TA in Europe potentially buying our H5's and H6's (262 cars), so that might get us going for an option.

It's gonna be very soon. We're supposed to get the first set mid Nov- Dec iirc. Bombardier still has to complete their test track @ Kingston still so they could do preliminary tests on the train.. http://twitpic.com/7svfh Toronto's Mayor David Miller posing infront of the Toronto Rocket

Just thought I'd create a thread for anyone to post any news or info regarding the TTC. Recent News: The order for 130 VII NG HEV's (1700-1829) was completed last week. Assembly is scheduled to start in October sometime for the 2010 order for 120 VII NG Diesel's. 3 cars of our Toronto Rocket's are complete and are currently being stored @ Bombardier's Kingston Test Facility.