Each Monday, Spacing will bring you some of the popular posts from our sister blog, Spacing Montréal. We’ll keep an eye open for topics and discussions that are pertinent to current public space issues in Toronto.
• The post Get your own personal bike rack! publicizes the number Montréalers need to call to have the City install a bike rack at a desired location — and quotes a source who claims that “a phone call is all that is needed.” (In Toronto, you need to start by filling out this form.)
• The Frozen commuters at Berri-UQAM a week ago Saturday were part of an expanding series of public space performances/events that started in Grand Central Station. Toronto’s edition was held recently in the Eaton Centre.
• This’ll take you back: STM, the Montréal transit authority, is apparently rolling out “slinky” buses — as documented in the post Articulated bus seen on Avenue du Parc tonight. According to Transit Toronto, The TTC introduced a fleet of articulated buses in the mid-’80s; they began corroding a decade later and were retired completely by 2003.
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TTC is acquiring new articulated buses now.
Mississauga Transit appears to have recently bought a whole new set of articulated buses. They’ve been using them for ages.
I don’t know why Toronto doesn’t run these on some of the busier routes.
The TTC bought junk the first time. The oldest ones Mississauga is running are starting to fall apart (the first batch from 1993 barely lasted 10 years). Better to wait for an improved product than waste money on more junk.
They’re standard issue on Viva in York, and are all over Ottawa.
Were the Ikarus buses really off Steeles E in 2003? I thought I’d ridden one later than that.
How is it that some busses can last 30+ years, while others rust out after 10-15? How hard can it be to build a bus that can last in Toronto’s climate?