Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!dptcdc!ncrcan!ontenv!soley
From: soley@ontenv.UUCP (Norman S. Soley)
Newsgroups: tor.general
Subject: Re: TTC Subway fault-tolerance
Keywords: TTC, Subway, delay, fault,turn-around
Message-ID: <446@ontenv.UUCP>
Date: 20 Mar 89 01:27:33 GMT
References: <810@mv03.ecf.toronto.edu>
Distribution: tor
Organization: Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Toronto
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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?

Wednesdays problem made it necessary to shut off power to the rails, I'm
pretty sure the power is "zoned" but likely Davisville and St. Clair
are in the same zone. There are certianly other reasons too. A better
question would be why the trains couldn't turn at Bloor instead of
Union.
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