Metro Vancouver Transit Discussion - Page 769

MIPS · #**15361** Posted **Sep 12, 2016, 5:04 AM**

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OMG everything about this train is amazingly huge aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.

VancouverOfTheFuture · #**15362** Posted **Sep 12, 2016, 7:22 AM**

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uh is something wrong with that "waterfront" display? it shouldn't be that burnt out already.

aberdeen5698 · #**15363** Posted **Sep 12, 2016, 3:27 PM**

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Originally Posted by VancouverOfTheFuture

uh is something wrong with that "waterfront" display? it shouldn't be that burnt out already.

The LED displays illuminate one row at a time, scanning through the rows too rapidly to be seen by the naked eye. But when you take a photo at a high shutter speed it reveals that not all the LEDs are always on at the same time. The same has always been true of the LED signs on the Mark II cars as well as the Canada Line cars.

SFUVancouver · #**15364** Posted **Sep 12, 2016, 5:00 PM**

Another interesting artifact of taking digital photography of fast-moving/refreshing object is propellers:

Source

Kisai · #**15365** Posted **Sep 12, 2016, 8:02 PM**

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Originally Posted by SFUVancouver

Another interesting artifact of taking digital photography of fast-moving/refreshing object is propellers:

Source

That's the rolling shutter effect, and it's why CMOS cameras are considered inferior for video (jello-effect.) CCD cameras have Global shutters, but are pretty much out of production for all but scientific and specialty cameras. They are more expensive (eg $12,000-70,000) and require a lot more power. All pre-HDTV camcorders used to be CCD however, it's just the way the market went.

Hence this is why the vast majority of security cameras are not HD but can see in the dark, they are CCD cameras.

Gordon · #**15366** Posted **Sep 12, 2016, 8:09 PM**

It would be nice if Translink would upgrade the platform LED signs so they are brighter as well as giving real time arrival information.

MIPS · #**15367** Posted **Sep 12, 2016, 11:19 PM**

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It would be nice if Translink would upgrade the platform LED signs so they are brighter as well as giving real time arrival information.

I mentioned before I liked the older LED signs but that one above....if we upgraded to those (but half the height, so none of that space filled with 222's) I'd be more than willing to see the signage switched. That color display is just pretty.

xd_1771 · #**15368** Posted **Sep 13, 2016, 2:54 PM**

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Saw this in the TRAMS Facebook group today. This was seen at Lougheed Station. A sign of things to come?

OK that's even better than some of the next train displays I've seen in Japan
Really happy to see multi-coloured LED displays come to SkyTrain! Props, props!

WarrenC12 · #**15369** Posted **Sep 13, 2016, 3:09 PM**

That is really nice. Thanks for the post!

Would help for days like today too...

nname · #**15370** Posted **Sep 13, 2016, 6:11 PM**

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Originally Posted by xd_1771

OK that's even better than some of the next train displays I've seen in Japan
Really happy to see multi-coloured LED displays come to SkyTrain! Props, props!

That's the display at station entrance. The display at platform level is smaller (4 lines) and single colored (orange).

red-paladin · #**15371** Posted **Sep 13, 2016, 7:01 PM**

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Originally Posted by nname

That's the display at station entrance. The display at platform level is smaller (4 lines) and single colored (orange).

Ah, that's the one seen on the third platform at Lougheed!

MIPS · #**15372** Posted **Sep 14, 2016, 5:25 AM**

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That's the display at station entrance. The display at platform level is smaller (4 lines) and single colored (orange).

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AverageJoe · #**15373** Posted **Sep 14, 2016, 8:07 AM**

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Originally Posted by nname

That's the display at station entrance. The display at platform level is smaller (4 lines) and single colored (orange).

Would they be similar to the Canada Line platform signs?

Large Cat · #**15374** Posted **Sep 14, 2016, 4:30 PM**

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Originally Posted by AverageJoe

Saw this in the TRAMS Facebook group today. This was seen at Lougheed Station. A sign of things to come?

We need these at every Expo and Millennium Line station! It's just basic stuff!

Kisai · #**15375** Posted **Sep 15, 2016, 9:38 PM**

For those of you who don't watch the news. September 13th there was a roughly 2 hour and 42 minute outage between Broadway and Metrotown station on the Expo line.

Global news was okay, but was trying to bring back the "Chaos" from last year.
CTV on the other hand seems like they had already decided the age of the system was to blame.... for rail grinding?

Global BC
http://globalnews.ca/news/2936782/skytrain-delays-for-commuters-this-morning/

CTV
http://bc.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=947392#950487

If the videos disappear at some point (searchability of news video tends to be difficult when sites are redesigned,) I also put them in context here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onGSkZWIjis

Kisai · #**15376** Posted **Sep 16, 2016, 8:05 PM**

Mayors at Translink announcing tax hikes
https://www.periscope.tv/w/1LyxBDQVwoYGN

I don't have the entire context for this

Translink just posted http://tenyearvision.translink.ca/ to twitter

Smooth · #**15377** Posted **Sep 16, 2016, 8:14 PM**

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Originally Posted by Kisai

Mayors at Translink announcing tax hikes
https://www.periscope.tv/w/1LyxBDQVwoYGN

I don't have the entire context for this

Someone should tell Kevin Desmond what the correct length for a tie is.

go_leafs_go02 · #**15378** Posted **Sep 16, 2016, 8:15 PM**

http://tenyearvision.translink.ca/

Here's the first phase. Mostly bus service increases and a few new projects.

WarrenC12 · #**15379** Posted **Sep 16, 2016, 8:34 PM**

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Originally Posted by Kisai

Mayors at Translink announcing tax hikes
https://www.periscope.tv/w/1LyxBDQVwoYGN

I don't have the entire context for this

Translink just posted http://tenyearvision.translink.ca/ to twitter

This is to fund their portion of "phase 1 improvements".

I read about a 10 cent fare increase and a $3 property tax increase. I would imagine the $3 is an average.

Sheba · #**15380** Posted **Sep 16, 2016, 9:02 PM**

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* Annual transit fare increase of 5 to 10 cents, so fares don't fall behind inflation.

* Annual property tax increase of about $3 per household.

* New region-wide fee on development activity to be introduced by 2020.

* Mobility pricing to be introduced in 2021-2022.

http://tenyearvision.translink.ca/plan/#FairAndBalancedFunding