Eddy

Passionate about all things transit, cities, and data. CS grad turned transit planner. Founder at @TransifyData, formerly @TTCplanning

[Eddy @eddyionescu]

@JoshMatlow This is much needed policy - North York Centre has so many good food spots because of the many small-scale retail spots at the floor of the condos - it should be possible to have that in midtown with all the planned condos along Yonge

[Eddy @eddyionescu]

@JRUrbaneNetwork MTR escalators are by far the fastest ones I’ve ever seen, so it makes sense that it’s more efficient for everyone to stand - in Toronto they’re slower (likely to minimize trips/falls) to the point often people are walking up on both sides.

[Eddy @eddyionescu]

@michellekearnel @robertbenzie @TorontoStar Plus no attempt to sample across ages and postal code, which correlate with cycling. Survey under 30s in the old City of Toronto and I wonder if the mode share might easily exceed 20%, this is just such sloppy work that shouldn’t make the front page

[Eddy @eddyionescu]

@michellekearnel @robertbenzie I’m so shocked @TorontoStar would publish this - 998 Ontarians is gonna be less than 200 Torontonians - it’s just way too small a sample for cycling mode share.

[Eddy @eddyionescu]

@PrabSarkaria The poll referred here says 55% of 998 Ontarians not Torontonians support your plan. Anti-bike-lane mayoral candidates got less than 15% of the vote in Toronto. https://t.co/hCYO4dQHVV

[Eddy @eddyionescu]

@SafeStreetsTO @TorontoPearson @UPexpress @Uber For starters @TorontoPearson really needs to prioritize transit at Terminal 3 - TTC has two 10-minute network routes that are constantly slowed down by surges in airport traffic

[Eddy @eddyionescu]

@not_taylorx It’s the Pape bus terminal construction that caused the route changes. And of course even when 4x 25/925s are bunched they’ll never get short-turned at Don Mille Stn so the service stays unreliable

[Eddy @eddyionescu]

@not_taylorx Oh wow I thought LW was half-hourly instead of 15min, hourly’s terrible. Kipling GO would have really been the ideal option here.

[Eddy @eddyionescu]

@not_taylorx Plus they have to be pretty desperate to be rerouting the 21 via the 407

[Eddy @eddyionescu]

@TTChelps @TTCnotices @ttcriders And of course a shout-out to @TransSee for making it easy to track this

[Eddy @eddyionescu]

@TTChelps @TTCnotices three consecutive missed trips, big crowd waiting for the 95. 6-min service turned into 20. No service alerts. Is anyone managing this route?

[Eddy @eddyionescu]

@TTChelps @TTCnotices @ttcriders The gap was worse than that - bus #3496 left YM Stn out of service at 20:08, intentionally bypassing the crowd, then came back as a 95 EB at Leslie. I called and your colleague said that the route supervisor recorded that incident. Thanks and hoping this stops happening!

[Eddy @eddyionescu]

@ZainKhurramTO @GOtransitBus @Metrolinx @GOtransit you used to be so good at alerting individual bus trip cancellations and delays. What happened?

[Eddy @eddyionescu]

@JLeiper It’s because Metrolinx lost a ton of money during the pandemic. Ottawa looks pretty fairly treated compared to other Ontario municipalities.

[Eddy @eddyionescu]

@_ChanFace @JackTattTran @not_taylorx Late-night I often time my trips to take the 97 because it’s somehow faster than (checks notes) Line 1

[Eddy @eddyionescu]

@not_taylorx @TTChelps I thought so too until I saw buses detouring skipping stops and the drivers (on the 14 and 162) telling me they serve only the stops with the temporary stop marker with their route on it - that was back in 2022 so I guess things changed 🤷‍♂️ thanks for the clarification @TTChelps

[Eddy @eddyionescu]

@TTChelps Thanks - also had a question on the detours policy here:

[Eddy @eddyionescu]

@TTChelps I love the new unplanned detours feature, but I thought your policy for buses on diversion was to not serve any stops unless they have a temporary stop marker with their route number on it?