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From: howard@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Howard Lem)
Date: Fri, 17-Mar-89 11:57:09 EST
Message-ID: <1989Mar17.115709.22644@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
Organization: University of Toronto Computing Services
Newsgroups: tor.general
Subject: Re: TTC Subway fault-tolerance
References: <810@mv03.ecf.toronto.edu>
Reply-To: howard@gpu.utcs.UUCP (Howard Lem)
Distribution: tor
Keywords: TTC, Subway, delay, fault,turn-around

In article <810@mv03.ecf.toronto.edu> hiraki@ecf.toronto.edu (Lester Hiraki) writes:
>Perhaps some people were inconvenienced by the subway problem on Wednesday,
>March 15.  Although the problem was near Davisville, there was no service
>between Lawrence and Union.  I know that there are gurus out there who
>will agree that there is a switch-over thing (=x=) just
>south of St. Clair Stn.  Why not to have turned back the
>trains there instead of at Union?
>
Trying to remember my TTC riding days; isn't there a switch over near Bloor?
My guess is that it has something to do with the way the TTC setup their
power grid.  The section that was shutdown included all of the original
subway line (except for Union station.)  Maybe they did not / could not split
there power grid on the original line.  
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