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CBC
5 days ago
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- CBC
TTC backs away from platform edge door pilot project at Dundas station
Social Sharing The TTC is backing away from a pilot project that would see platform doors installed at Dundas station next year, saying it will instead ask a committee to consider the measure as part of its 2026 budget priorities. Platform edge doors are barriers and doors separating platforms from train tracks. When a train stops at a station, the doors open, allowing riders inside, and prevent people, animals and objects from falling onto the tracks. The TTC has been studying platform edge doors for years. The capital cost of a platform edge door system for Lines 1, 2 and 4 is estimated at $4.1 billion, according to a report that went to the TTC board at a meeting on Monday. The report says the average costs of the doors for two platforms at one station would be $44 million to $55 million. "Platform Edge Doors (PEDs) improve subway safety and service by preventing track access, thus reducing injuries, fatalities, staff trauma, and service disruptions," the report says. The board decided its strategic planning committee should look at the idea of platform edge doors and the estimated cost as part of next year's budget submission. WATCH | Breaking the silence about subway suicide: Breaking the silence about subway suicide 6 years ago Duration 13:27 At the meeting, the TTC board also decided that it will direct staff to look at the costs and benefits of "technically feasible options" to detect or discourage what the TTC calls "track-level intrusions" at subway stations. TTC spokesperson Stuart Green said intrusions are incidents in which "people are involved at track level and there's a delay to service, whether it be someone jumping down to retrieve a lost item or someone suffering a mental health episode." Doors 'very expensive undertaking,' chair says Coun. Jamaal Myers, chair of the board, moved a motion to delete a staff recommendation to launch the pilot project, saying platform edge doors would be a "very expensive undertaking at this point." Myers said there may be a less expensive option to the doors and the board needs more information. "As chair, I get the emails, probably once every couple of weeks, of priority one, of someone who has [died by] suicide on the tracks. Obviously, it's very tragic for their family and whoever has done it. But it's also incredibly traumatic for the employees who are driving the trains at this time," Myers said. "We do have an obligation to move forward with this and to make a decision and to see where this fits in the priorities of the TTC." According to the report, the pilot project would have helped to identify challenges in implementing the doors, including cost, risks, timing, constraints and feedback. "In addition, this will validate operations and maintenance impacts and generate public interest and support before planning and budgeting for the remaining stations across the system," the report says. 'I don't want this to be sidelined,' councillor says Coun. Josh Matlow, a board member, said during the debate that referring the item back to committee means the board is delaying a decision on the platform edge doors. "I get that we need to set priorities and we struggle between them, but I don't want this to die. I don't want this to just disappear. I don't want this to be sidelined. I don't want this to be studied into non-existence. And I fear that that's where we're going if we're just sending this off to a committee," Matlow said. Matlow said he would have liked the TTC to proceed with a pilot project at a station. "I'd like it to eventually roll out to many more where the data demonstrates that we are having the most issues with trespassing," he added.
CBC
05-06-2025
- Business
- CBC
Former New York, London transit exec tapped to lead Toronto Transit Commission
The incoming CEO of the Toronto Transit Commission says he hopes to leverage his experience working for two of the largest transit agencies in the world to make the TTC the most reliable transit system in North America. Mandeep Lali was announced as the TTC's pick to be the new CEO at a news conference in Scarborough Thursday. "My vision for the TTC is to be world class — world class in safety, reliability, affordability and accessibility," Lali said Thursday. "Those are all basics of which are fundamentals of a great transportation system." Lali was previously an executive at New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), serving as executive vice-president and chief operating officer of subways for the largest transit agency in North America. Prior to that, he spent over a 13 years at Transport for London. He'll be taking over the role from Rick Leary, who retired at the end of August last year. Lali was tapped to take the helm of the city's transit commission after an extensive international search that lasted close to nine months, said TTC board chair Jamaal Myers at Thursday's news conference. "When we asked him what his goal for the TTC was, he said, without missing a beat, to make the TTC the most reliable transit system in North America," Myers said. "As a lifelong TTC rider this was music to my ears. It's what every Torontonian wants to hear."
CBC
14-05-2025
- Science
- CBC
Dundas Subway Station will be renamed 'TMU Station'
The Toronto Transit Commission Board has unanimously voted to rename Dundas Subway Station to TMU Station. The move is part of a research partnership between the TTC and Toronto Metropolitan University.
CTV News
13-05-2025
- Business
- CTV News
TTC considering name change for Dundas Station. Here's what the new name could be
A popular subway station in downtown Toronto could get a name change when the TTC board holds it's monthly meeting on Wednesday. A report proposes that Dundas Station, at Yonge and Dundas streets, be renamed 'TMU Station,' to reflect 'the evolution of both the local neighbourhood and [Toronto Metropolitan University].' In the report, the TTC's Chief Strategy and Customer Experience Officer also said the name change will align Dundas Station with the transit system's current practice of naming stations after institutions and destinations, citing York, Museum, Queen's Park, and Osgoode stations as examples. 'The area around Dundas Station has changed dramatically with the rapid growth of TMU, and the TTC station has become fully integrated with the TMU campus and student life,' it reads. Further, the report notes that the university has presented the TTC with an offer that would cover the cost of the renaming and 'create an opportunity for ongoing collaboration with the university.' Additionally, it calls the station renaming 'time-sensitive' and 'unique,' pointing to the upcoming roll-out of 'customer information changes' for the new Line 6 Finch West LRT route, saying that the renaming could be aligned with those changes. 'Should the Board approve the recommendations below, work would begin immediately,' the report reads. 'In addition, there is ongoing work to renew Dundas Station that can be leveraged for a potential renaming of the station. Delaying this decision would result in incrementally higher costs in the future.' In late 2023, Toronto City Council approved renaming Yonge-Dundas Square to Sankofa Square after numerous studies of academic research found that Henry Dundas – the square's namesake – was involved in delaying the abolition of the Transatlantic slave trade. The Jane/Dundas Public Library was renamed the Daniel G. Hill Branch as part of those efforts, and the Dundas West Station is also on the list of 'Dundas-linked city assets' waiting for a name change.
CTV News
13-05-2025
- Business
- CTV News
TTC considering name change for Dundas Station. Here's what the new name could be
A popular subway station in downtown Toronto could get a name change when the TTC board holds it's monthly meeting on Wednesday. A report proposes that Dundas Station, at Yonge and Dundas streets, be renamed 'TMU Station,' to reflect 'the evolution of both the local neighbourhood and [Toronto Metropolitan University].' In the report, the TTC's Chief Strategy and Customer Experience Officer also said the name change will align Dundas Station with the transit system's current practice of naming stations after institutions and destinations, citing York, Museum, Queen's Park, and Osgoode stations as examples. 'The area around Dundas Station has changed dramatically with the rapid growth of TMU, and the TTC station has become fully integrated with the TMU campus and student life,' it reads. Further, the report notes that the university has presented the TTC with an offer that would cover the cost of the renaming and 'create an opportunity for ongoing collaboration with the university.' Additionally, it calls the station renaming 'time-sensitive' and 'unique,' pointing to the upcoming roll-out of 'customer information changes' for the new Line 6 Finch West LRT route, saying that the renaming could be aligned with those changes. 'Should the Board approve the recommendations below, work would begin immediately,' the report reads. 'In addition, there is ongoing work to renew Dundas Station that can be leveraged for a potential renaming of the station. Delaying this decision would result in incrementally higher costs in the future.' In late 2023, Toronto City Council approved renaming Yonge-Dundas Square to Sankofa Square after numerous studies of academic research found that Henry Dundas – the square's namesake – was involved in delaying the abolition of the Transatlantic slave trade. The Jane/Dundas Public Library was renamed the Daniel G. Hill Branch as part of those efforts, and the Dundas West Station is also on the list of 'Dundas-linked city assets' waiting for a name change.
