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They run out of separate garages. If they have an excess of artics after fully dispatching them onto the 903, they can't exactly send the rest out onto Jane, now can they?

I don't think this is a question that can be adequately answered. The trams will be shipped when they are completed and ready for shipment, and that can happen on any day, and at any given time during that day. Unless you have a contact along the route who can inform you as to when a vehicle is leaving, and when it's scheduled to be down in Toronto, it is just sheer dumb luck.

Anyone know the present status of 4568? We're coming up on 2 years of it being out of service in July. That feels like a very long time for an accident victim.

The faux motivational messages are getting really out of hand

November 14:

Are the 8100s in worse shape than the 8000s or even the hybrids? At last count that's six 81s that have been put out to pasture now, which is rather significant for a fleet that's not supposed to be retiring en masse.

A meeting of two TTC Orion VII NG Hybrids at Finch West station on April 13, 2024.

I've only been on two Van Hools but both times I came away thinking that they were the single most comfortable bus I've ridden in North America. At any rate, their suspension seems to be leaps and bounds ahead of that of the LFS, where every single bump is absolutely bone shattering. For that matter, the wizened New looks rode better than the Novas IMO.

This morning with a temperature of whopping 5 C I was put in the garden centre to cashier. Because some idiot in a climate controlled office said we have to have the garden centre open, God damn it!

What a ghastly thought. I am hard pressed to choose between the LFS and the Enviro as to which is the most horrifically uncomfortable bus in existence.

Missing my bus by 2 minutes and having an hour to wait for the next one, because the bus that I missed was running 2 minutes early.

8100, 8112, 8173, 8185, 8198, 8200, 8203, 8211 have all been missing for a while.

Finally bit the bullet and got myself an e-reader. Of course, nothing compares to a book that you hold in your hand, but this sure beats driving back and forth from the library to pick up stuff, to say nothing of how e-books can't get "lost" and don't show up in dubious condition like many library books do!

Once should probably be enough, if the rebuild is sufficiently comprehensive. The lifespan of a rail vehicle is generally 30 years without a rebuild.

2040 seems needlessly conservative. The oldest car will only be 28. Considering that they're still getting built now and a rail vehicle is good for 30-50 years, I'd expect nothing to retire until 2050 at the earliest.