A regional public transit service in Toronto, Canada that provides provisional and municipal trains to the general public has been expanding its services for more than 40 years. As the regional public transit service for the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area, routes are extending to communities across the Greater Golden Horseshoe. This particular regional public transit service now carries 65 million passengers a year.<\/p>\n
Since May 1967, the transit\u2019s evolution has gone from a single line along the shoreline of Lake Ontario to an extensive network of trains and bus routes. The transit estimates that since its services began, more than a billion riders have used their services. As the transit continues to expand to cover downtown Toronto and other urban areas, it\u2019s manufacturing and maintenance facilities must also expand to make future growth possible.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s\u2019 why, in 2013, the Transit reached out to a local Spanco dealer, Toronto Electric, to inquire about maximizing the use of their facilities and improving productivity in maintenance. In one of their Willowbrook maintenance facilities, workers were in desperate need of a proper material handling solution for train maintenance. A year later, the transit service invested in four Spanco Freestanding Articulating Jib Cranes to increase maintenance efficiency, and improve productivity and worker safety. The articulating jib arms are used at the front of the trains to reach between cars and move heavy electrical cables in and out of place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-1573","case_study","type-case_study","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n