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[Junior Mint]

I thought everything has transitioned to Compass card now?

They are. The buses still print magnetic strip fares which don't have the tap functionality to open the skytrain gates. There was literally a worker behind the gates and she told me I had to buy another fare instead of just letting me through. Ridiculous.

 

[krae_man]

Yay, got one. Thank you, Krae. Unofficial TO-GAF meet-up!?

I'm down for a Meetup!

Also you just didn't want to tell me how old you are!

 

[Sober]

Waitlisted lol. Oh well, not that keen on watching this shit in a theater. GAF'll do. =)

Imagine the smell and you'd bail.

 

[Anony]

wtf, i dont get how this system works
i registered on the waitlist 8 mins after 1pm
but new spots opened up some time after it was sold out? shouldnt the people on the waitlist get in first before any new spots open?

am i suppose to just go there and hope there's a spot open if i'm on the waitlist?

 

[krae_man]

wtf, i dont get how this system works
i registered on the waitlist 8 mins after 1pm
but new spots opened up some time after it was sold out? shouldnt the people on the waitlist get in first before any new spots open?

am i suppose to just go there and hope there's a spot open if i'm on the waitlist?

People's shopping cart's timed out. This is how all ticketed events work. You don't get automatically upgraded if you buy 5th row tickets to a concert and someone who got in faster then you and had 3rd row tickets in their cart backs out and doesn't buy.

A undisclosed percentage of each theatre is reserved for waiting list people. How many wait list spots did they sell vs how many reserved for wait list seats are there? Unknown.

How many of the reserved seat people just booked and have no intention to show up because it was online and free? Unknown.

How early will you have to get in line to get a seat? Unknown.

 

[dluu13]

They are. The buses still print magnetic strip fares which don't have the tap functionality to open the skytrain gates. There was literally a worker behind the gates and she told me I had to buy another fare instead of just letting me through. Ridiculous.

Rough. Back in December, they had the magnetic strip still being dispensed at the skytrain stations, although the gates were still open. The tap cards were available at different machines though. I wonder what the delay is for getting them onto buses. I'm all for phasing out the old stuff though, so hopefully they get this sorted out.

Although I bought my compass card, I mostly used my dad's old style monthly pass to get around around Christmas so I actually never had a chance to try out the new gates properly. I'm actually looking forward to the next time I go back so I can try it out and see if it works.

 

[shadowkat]

Yay, got one. Thank you, Krae. Unofficial TO-GAF meet-up!?

We'll need an official one soon too. Tomorrow is June!

 

[Renewed]

*checks E3 Experience @ Scotiabank tickets* "Sold Out" ayyy qq

My computer at home was out all day because of an unexpected WX update (ffs...). At least it wasn't stupidly hot.

Oh right meetups. I can put some thought into a post-E3 meetup unless someone else would like to.

 

[Kuro Madoushi]

We'll need an official one soon too. Tomorrow is June!

The SIX...th meet up this year!

*checks E3 Experience @ Scotiabank tickets* "Sold Out" ayyy qq

My computer at home was out all day because of an unexpected WX update (ffs...). At least it wasn't stupidly hot.

Oh right meetups. I can put some thought into a post-E3 meetup unless someone else would like to.

Kinda regret not trying to get tix now....

 

[Renewed]

About to put up the meetup thread (thanks Kuro for the title). I wanna have it the following Friday/Saturday after E3 but I wanna be nice and give people flexibility if they have things to do. So I'll do the vote thing like last time (you pick all the days you're down for or w.e)

Thread's up, enjoy my non-existent sense of humour

 

[mr.rager]

Some of you already know that i'm heading to Japan for a year but it was officially made official today! Picked up my visa this afternoon! Hasn't really hit me yet but i'm sure the closer it gets to the date it will lol.

 

[Renewed]

Some of you already know that i'm heading to Japan for a year but it was officially made official today! Picked up my visa this afternoon! Hasn't really hit me yet but i'm sure the closer it gets to the date it will lol.

Ooo congrats! I hope you enjoy your time there

 

[dluu13]

Some of you already know that i'm heading to Japan for a year but it was officially made official today! Picked up my visa this afternoon! Hasn't really hit me yet but i'm sure the closer it gets to the date it will lol.

Are you going there for work?

 

[Kuro Madoushi]

Some of you already know that i'm heading to Japan for a year but it was officially made official today! Picked up my visa this afternoon! Hasn't really hit me yet but i'm sure the closer it gets to the date it will lol.

Send me lots of Japanese snacks...!

 

[shadowkat]

Some of you already know that i'm heading to Japan for a year but it was officially made official today! Picked up my visa this afternoon! Hasn't really hit me yet but i'm sure the closer it gets to the date it will lol.

Congrats

 

[mr.rager]

Ooo congrats! I hope you enjoy your time there

Thanks man!

Are you going there for work?

Kind of. I got a working holiday visa so I can go with for a year, I mostly went cause my girlfriend moved back there lol. I'll most likely be teaching English tho.

Send me lots of Japanese snacks...!

Whatever you want bro, I'll hook it up.

Congrats

Thanks Kat!

:Edit:

Btw is anyones internet down? I lost my internet connection last night and it hasn't come back yet. I'm with Rogers.

 

[The Elite]

The Rocket now on the Bloor-Danforth line.

There is a huge delay at Yonge though and there was one at Dundas West.

Edit: Apparently The Rocket trains were just a one time thing since they couldn't get the regular subways out from Greenwood station to the west end.

 

[Lexxism]

Any reason why the rocket is not being used in bloor-danforth line?

 

[The Elite]

Any reason why the rocket is not being used in bloor-danforth line?

I keep hearing that it's due to the stations being too narrow to support it but I think that's just speculation. There was clearly no problem this morning. It ran just fine.

I don't know.

 

[Kave_Man]

Wow what a mess downtown.

One of my coworkers came back from vacation today, she usually gets in at 8:30, it's now 10am and she's nowhere to be seen. She sent us a few texts to say she's still stuck trying to get up here.

 

[Kuro Madoushi]

Wow what a mess downtown.

One of my coworkers came back from vacation today, she usually gets in at 8:30, it's now 10am and she's nowhere to be seen. She sent us a few texts to say she's still stuck trying to get up here.

Must be coming from the East then with the subway being down for a fire investigation.

TTC WORLD CLASS

Spoiler

delays

 

[The Elite]

Surprised more people didn't get off at Spadina when going west. I guess a lot of them were going past Yonge.

 

[Brinbe]

Good ole shuttle buses lol. Thank the lawd I don't have to make a daily morning commute. That shit sounds nightmarish.

At least we have this to look forward to?
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2016/05/31/preferred-route-of-downtown-relief-line-revealed.html

It'll be nice when we get it in about 20(0) years.

 

[Kave_Man]

Still waiting for that line to York U.

 

[Kuro Madoushi]

Still waiting for that line to York U.

Your grandkids will be able to talk about it coming and their grandkids may see it break ground.

 

[BigJonsson]

Your grandkids will be able to talk about it coming and their grandkids may see it break ground.

You gonna speed up the aging process or something?

 

[shadowkat]

Still waiting for that line to York U.

Keep waiting.

Your grandkids will be able to talk about it coming and their grandkids may see it break ground.

No lie, my uncle went to York and they were talking about it then. He graduated in the early 70s.

 

[Dr Campino]

Just wanted to remind folks that I do still have that TFC ticket for tonight available. It'll be against Montreal, should be a good time.

 

[Kuro Madoushi]

Keep waiting.




No lie, my uncle went to York and they were talking about it then. He graduated in the early 70s.

The 1870s?

 

[shadowkat]

The 1870s?

1970s you jerk. He was there when it was still new.

 

[Anony]

i was in the eglinton/yonge area and they seem to be building tracks for the LRT or whatever thery're going to have there
that's something right?

 

[EvilMario]

i was in the eglinton/yonge area and they seem to be building tracks for the LRT or whatever thery're going to have there
that's something right?

Yes. Eglinton LRT will be a massive improvement for transit in the city and of course, specifically for the communities in those areas. People complained non-stop about the shit show that was St Clair during the ROW construction, but it improved everything there for transit so much. Eglinton will be far beyond that.

 

[Kuro Madoushi]

1970s you jerk. He was there when it was still new.

LOL

I'm not exaggerating when I say 2070 and it may finally be done. They were talking about all this crap back when I was at UofT 15 years ago. Public transit should never have been politicized here...

 

[Anony]

Yes. Eglinton LRT will be a massive improvement for transit in the city and of course, specifically for the communities in those areas. People complained non-stop about the shit show that was St Clair during the ROW construction, but it improved everything there for transit so much. Eglinton will be far beyond that.

it's good for the local residents, but it's just going to be worse for the yonge line
there needs to be more lines going to into the downtown core from uptown
every expansion we're doing forces more pressure on the yonge line

i just dont get why they didnt expand the sheppard line to downsview, that's the easiest thing they could have done

also, i saw on the eglinton LRT line map that they're expanding something (another LRT i think) from somewhere past fairview mall (don mills station i guess) to scarb RT (midland station i think)
the system doesn't seem integrated with don mills station, from the map, it looks like it's some distance past fairview mall

 

[Junior Mint]

I always found it crazy that to go from Sheppard to Yorkdale I have to take a 30 minute subway trip south and then 30 minutes back up

 

[Quick]

I always found it crazy that to go from Sheppard to Yorkdale I have to take a 30 minute subway trip south and then 30 minutes back up

I was going to laugh at you for going all the way down to Union and back up, but I realized that definitely takes over 30 minutes, so I'm assuming you cut across on the Bloor-Danforth line via Bloor-Yonge station.

 

[Eleuin]

??? You can take the 84 to downsview or the 96/165 from york mills to Wilson and yorkdale is right there

 

[EvilMario]

it's good for the local residents, but it's just going to be worse for the yonge line
there needs to be more lines going to into the downtown core from uptown
every expansion we're doing forces more pressure on the yonge line

i just dont get why they didnt expand the sheppard line to downsview, that's the easiest thing they could have done

also, i saw on the eglinton LRT line map that they're expanding something (another LRT i think) from somewhere past fairview mall (don mills station i guess) to scarb RT (midland station i think)
the system doesn't seem integrated with don mills station, from the map, it looks like it's some distance past fairview mall

Yonge line would continue to suffer with, or without the LRT. There will definitely be a ridership increase from people along Eglinton that may have otherwise taken a bus down to Bloor line, or boarded somewhere else, but a lot of the traffic on the LRT->YUS will have already been there via buses in their area.

The real issue will be 20 years from now as development continues in the area, already some good density along Eglinton, but made more attractive now. It would happen either way. Yonge line reaching maximum capacity shouldn't stop projects like this though, but relief line needs to have yesterday. Or 20 years ago.

I always found it crazy that to go from Sheppard to Yorkdale I have to take a 30 minute subway trip south and then 30 minutes back up

As others have said, all the major streets will have buses running East and West, which will likely always be faster than taking the subway down, transferring twice and going back up.

 

[KnightHart]

I always found it crazy that to go from Sheppard to Yorkdale I have to take a 30 minute subway trip south and then 30 minutes back up

It's usually better to take the streetcar/bus across east-west vice-versa stations than to go the whole loop around.

 

[Renewed]

Have people actually gone the full loop? I would be mildly surprised.

Bless my work being relatively close, once I get a bike it's smooth sailing.

 

[Kuro Madoushi]

I hope your mind is blown, Junior.

 

[Junior Mint]

Somehow I never even considered taking a bus lol.

 

[ProfessorMoran]

Yes. Eglinton LRT will be a massive improvement for transit in the city and of course, specifically for the communities in those areas. People complained non-stop about the shit show that was St Clair during the ROW construction, but it improved everything there for transit so much. Eglinton will be far beyond that.

As someone living in that community, there's already the Yonge line and it's faster to take the Eglinton bus to Yonge than to wait for a subway train at Bayview station (this is what my wife who's the one commuting downtown everyday is telling me). From Yonge and Eglinton to Leaside a lot of us drive, it's a relatively affluent area, much more so than St. Clair outside of Moore Park. You can go from Vic Park to Yonge without a subway stop and the locals couldn't care less. I'm not against a subway line on Eglinton but I'm not a huge fan of the station.

 

[Kave_Man]

What do you guys think is the most opulent areas in Toronto?

 

[Kuro Madoushi]

What do you guys think is the most opulent areas in Toronto?

Bridal path for living? Yorkville for shopping?

 

[Blackhead]

Bridal path for living? Yorkville for shopping?

And for food?

 

[capitalCORN]

And for food?

Food is good all over. Just depends on what you're looking for.

 

[shadowkat]

What do you guys think is the most opulent areas in Toronto?

Bridal Path. Probably Rosedale.

 

[Kuro Madoushi]

And for food?

Well...

Food is good all over. Just depends on what you're looking for.

Pretty much.

I wouldn't say there's a concentrated area of good stuff; you'd have to pick a cuisine and there'd be restaurants for them. I will say I liked having areas dedicated to one type of food though; the ramen area in Seoul was pretty neat and Tokyo has a bunch of them.

Bridal Path. Probably Rosedale.

Yuuuup

Goddamn. So bad at Overwatch...got 4 TO gaffers a least tonight but I think I ended up playing too much at the end.

 

[shadowkat]

Goddamn. So bad at Overwatch...got 4 TO gaffers a least tonight but I think I ended up playing too much at the end.

Tonight was the first time I've felt legitimately frustrated with it. Felt like I couldn't do anything. Kept dying, can't aim for shit. UGH. I had to stop.