{"id":7763,"date":"2009-11-13T09:15:37","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T13:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=7763"},"modified":"2009-11-13T12:42:29","modified_gmt":"2009-11-13T16:42:29","slug":"the-land-that-timeline-forgot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2009\/11\/13\/the-land-that-timeline-forgot\/","title":{"rendered":"The land that Timeline forgot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/7119320@N05\/4044834895\/in\/set-72157614507635081\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2509\/4044834895_247f8afd20.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Until December 31, 1999, the TTC had a convenient mobile schedule system called Timeline. <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/01\/19\/a-little-history-on-the-ttcs-timeline-service\/\">An early post on Spacing Toronto<\/a> gives a history of the system and goes into the details of the system&#8217;s demise. Amongst the reasons for the shutdown was that Timeline was not Y2K compliant, there were telecom equipment issues, and the TTC had a strained budget after the Harris government withdrew provincial operating subsidies. For a cost of at least $2 Million, fixing Timeline was seen as a luxury.<\/p>\n<p>One would note, however, that other systems throughout Ontario (such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mississauga.ca\/portal\/residents\/citylink\">Mississauga<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/tripplanner.yrt.ca\/hiwire?.a=iLocationLookup&amp;.s=388ee55a\">York Region<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.myhamilton.ca\/myhamilton\/CityandGovernment\/CityServices\/Transit\/CurrentSchedules\/index.htm\">Hamilton<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grt.ca\/web\/transit.nsf\/vwArticles\/TE-GR-ROU-LIN-2100?OpenDocument\">Waterloo Region<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.octranspo1.com\/\">Ottawa<\/a>) still offer this service. Systems that had a dedicated\u00a0 telephone number for each stop (in Kitchener\/Waterloo, the number was always 519-888-XXXX) eventually switched to having a single number to call.<\/p>\n<p>After Timeline shut down, the TTC cleverly covered up the Timeline decals indicating the bus stop telephone number with either a decal promoting the request-stop program (which uniquely amongst transit operators in Ontario, <a href=\"http:\/\/www3.ttc.ca\/Riding_the_TTC\/Safety_and_Security\/Safety_tips.jsp\">is only available to female passengers<\/a>) at bus stops, and &#8220;look left upon exiting&#8221; reminders at streetcar stops.<\/p>\n<p>A few Timeline stickers remained, though. One lasted until 2008 at the 104 Faywood platform at Wilson Station. But to this day, the stops covered by the 39B Finch East rush hour branch on <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/?ie=UTF8&amp;ll=43.798637,-79.310474&amp;spn=0.006722,0.013218&amp;z=16\">Bridletowne Circle and on L&#8217;Amoreaux Drive<\/a> still sport their Timeline numbers.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2794\/4044834669_9da567f15d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Note the old &#8220;STOP&#8221; lettering on the sign above. Originally, TTC stops were painted on wooden, concrete or steel poles, with red bands between a white centre and would say &#8220;CAR STOP&#8221; or &#8220;BUS STOP&#8221;. Later signs, affixed to poles, used pictograms based on PCC streetcars or GM &#8220;New Look&#8221; buses. 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