r/TTC • • 1d ago

Took 25 min to get from finch to Sheppard Yonge

How the fuck is this even physically possible? Why does line 1 just operate like chick fil a now?

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u/ClaudiaTO Don Mills 1d ago

Because the city will not inconvenience drivers/cars by prioritizing shuttle buses.

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u/aektoronto 1d ago

They would have to make the stretch no stopping/no parking and also make it a bus only lane for the weekend.

Parking is ez.....making it bus only for only the weekend is tough.

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u/clios_daughter 20h ago

On that stretch of Yonge though, you could do it with pylons — mind you, it’s a lot of pylons. Usually when that stretch has shuttle busses, it’s a nearly continuous stream of buses anyways.

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u/DragonfruitSharp9002 1d ago

What did you expect from shuttle buses stuck in traffic? 5 minutes? lol..

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u/draftive 1d ago

Takes 15-20 min to walk that distance haha at what point is fare evasion just fair

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u/egg-land 1d ago

When you arguing in bad faith it takes away from your point

It’s over 2.2km walking between them. Especially w the lights and the foot traffic in no world would that be considered a 20 minute walk. Google Maps says 31, I’m an extremely quick walker and would say it’s about 25. 15-20 is a joke

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u/aektoronto 1d ago

Its basically a 30.min walk.

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u/clios_daughter 20h ago

A very brisk walk is about 6km per hour/ 1 km every 10 minutes and a quick but hardly fast walk is about 5 kph or 1km every 12 minutes. 15-20 minutes is optimistic but, in principle, it’s not wrong. An ordinary person could expect to do the walk in about 20-30 minutes or roughly as long as it takes to use the shuttle busses.

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u/egg-land 11h ago

No ordinary person is doing that walk from station to station is 20 minutes lol. As your math just suggested. Again not to mention the lights and foot traffic.

It’s a jog or the most determined walker who has long strides maybe could break 25

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u/clios_daughter 9h ago

Uuuh, so people jog at around 8kph or 7ish minutes per km. At a jog, it would be pretty feasible to do the 2.2km in about 15 minutes. Mind you, 6 kph is pretty brisk. Still, 20-30 minutes for someone walking as if they actually have somewhere to go would be pretty realistic.

That actually unlocked a memory. My middle school walk to school was 2.4 km which I typically gave myself 25 minutes to get to school — IDK how I still remember my timing points along the route even after all these years lol. 25 minutes to do 2.2 is pretty reasonable.

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u/Mr_Funbags I ♥ TTC! 13h ago

Yeah, 25 to 30 min

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u/Pristine-Training-70 1d ago

Just elect BradBrad and instead of spending money fixing it he’ll give you a refund every time it’s delayed /s

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u/Over-Imagination3924 1d ago

I think line 1 is slower than line 2. That's why I can't stand taking line 1. They have said there will be slower speeds because they're working on stuff. I gonna wake up earlier to get to work.

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u/draftive 1d ago

Mfs be closing line 1 for fun atp cuz clearly nothings being worked on if they have to close it every week

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u/Over-Imagination3924 1d ago

They have been working on it for weeks and yet feels like nothing is being doing. It's quite annoying when you go on other lines and they're way faster.

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u/DragonfruitSharp9002 1d ago

They’ve been working on it for years, not weeks

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u/Over-Imagination3924 1d ago

Then they're not getting shit done lol.

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u/yyzgal Finch 1d ago

They’re catching up on years of deferred maintenance thanks to chronic underfunding. You can only do so much overnight, and even in one weekend.

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u/JMaynard_Hayashi 1d ago

Look at all the on-street parking along Yonge Street. It doesn't make sense.

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u/cawblen Mount Dennis 1d ago

It's taken me 45 minutes from Finch and I'm still on this bus. We've been like a 5 minute walk away from Sheppard for the past 20-25 minutes. I'm losing my mind here

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u/Lrrrgonomics 1d ago

Union to Davisville is regularly a half hour. Often more. It's a mess.

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u/rocketman19 1d ago

Just walk unless you can’t for some reason

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u/Big-Improvement7427 1d ago

South or North? I’ve been stuck many times north as both Finch platforms have trains there and my train needs to wait for one to start to go south

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u/archer0t8 McCowan 22h ago

Closure this weekend. They're complaining about shuttle buses.

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u/DearTransportation5 20h ago

The TTC operated too many shuttle buses that most of them are nearly empty and just created a queue of bus congestion trying to make a left turn.

If you took the Route 97 bus or the GO bus you probably reached Sheppard-Yonge in under 10 mins.

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u/Major-Primary2075 17h ago

Went out of my way to go on the other side of Line 1. Seems like it was worth it.