William HamiltonWe have an opening date! How *much* of it actually opens is anyone’s guess.
#Toronto #TTC #EglintonCrosstown #ServiceWorthWaitingFor
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/eglinton-lrt-opening-date-9.7072012
Spotted on the Wellesley subway platform this morning: the #TTC #FinchWest light rail line is apparently on the brink of launching revenue service. #Toronto #ServiceWorthWaitingFor
Spotted on the platform at Finch subway station on the #TTC: a subway map with the Finch West and #EglintonCrosstown marked on it…though they twist the knife just a little bit by greying out the station stops between Eglinton and Cedarvale-slash-Eglinton-West.
#Toronto comedian Jacob Balshin spent $600 on a mariachi band on Wednesday to stage a quinceañera for the guaranteed-to-open-before-the-Big-Crunch-at-the-end-of-the-universe #EglintonCrosstown light metro line.
#TTC #Metrolinx #ServiceWorthWaitingFor
https://nowtoronto.com/news/resident-throws-eglinton-lrt-birthday-party/
Place your bets, folks! Which event will happen first?
#BadNewsBlueJays win the World Series
#EglintonCrosstown opens for revenue service
Poll ended at .
“What the hell am I looking at? When does this happen in the movie?”
“‘Now’. You’re looking at ‘now’, sir. Everything that happens now is happening ‘now’.”
“What happened to ‘then’?”
“We passed ‘then’.”
“When?”
“Just now. We're at ‘now’, now.”
“Go back to ‘then’!”
“When?”
“Now!”
“Now?”
“Now!”
“I can’t.”
“Why?”
“We missed it.”
“When?”
“Just now.”
“When will ‘then’ be ‘now’?”
“Soon.”
“*How soon?*”
#Toronto #TTC #Metrolinx #EglintonCrosstown #Spaceballs #ServiceWorthWaitingFor
Priceless dialogue here between the CP24 anchor and the reporter doing the stand-up on this Eglinton Crosstown story, in which we learn that #Toronto’s much-delayed light metro line has at long last begun its final thirty-day revenue service demonstration:
“Arda, is it really happening?”
“I — I *think* so. I don’t know. We’ll see.”
Eglinton LRT to begin 30-day revenue service demonstration phase
“What’s happening? Where is this in the movie?”
“Now, sir. What’s happening, now, is happening *now*.”
“What happened to *then*?”
“We passed it.”
“When?”
“Just now.”
“Now?”
“Now!”
“Why?”
“We missed it.”
“When?”
“Just now.”
“When will *then* be *now*?”
“Soon.”
“*How* *soon*?”
#Spaceballs #Toronto #TTC #Metrolinx #EglintonCrosstown #ServiceWorthWaitingFor
Anybody *else* thinking of Lucy spotting the football for a kick attempt by Charlie Brown?
#Toronto #TTC #Metrolinx #ServiceWorthWaitingFor
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/eglinton-crosstown-delayes-ttc-board-1.7587574
Bad news, commuters: the Eglinton Crosstown LRT may be delayed again | CBC News
At Thursday’s TTC Board meeting, Coun. Josh Matlow asked outgoing TTC interim CEO Greg Percy if the long-delayed light rail transit line would be ready to open this September. Percy said 'September is a reach', but this fall is plausible.