rfid
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Just wanted to get some opinion about running Toronto more like New York City. I have driven on New York area roads and taken the NYC subway and I made some observations.
The roads seem to flow fairly well in NYC. Drivers are, let me say, "assertive". They use their horn appropriately and drive decisively. There are lanes for buses, emergency vehicles marked on the road. Every other avenue or street seems to alternate between one way direction and the other way. Some roads are double-decked. I was wondering what the advantages or reason for this is as I've never seen that done here, other than minimally along the Gardiner with Lake Shore underneath. What if you added more lanes on top of an existing roadway (perhaps like if the 401 express lanes were on top of rather than beside each other)?
As for the subway, the system is vast and works. It's not the nicest looking thing, but it gets you where you need to go. The trains are less frequent as interlining is pretty much standard. By that, I mean subway lines are just infrastructure and routes run on various lines. So for instance, all of the N, R, and Q "routes" use either of the Broadway line's express or local tracks, but diverge to either Astoria or Queens Blvd. lines at the north end of the route.
If Toronto took a more incremental approach to building subway infrastructure, aka the few kms/year method discussed many times, it could perhaps offer a manageable way to expand the network. So for instance, Yonge, University, and Bloor-Danforth are the trunk lines. Off Yonge, you have the Sheppard line slowly adding to the network. Rather than appearing to be a stub (much like a short line like Astoria), it is a route that continues off the Yonge line. So, a route 4 train could use both the inftrastructure of the Yonge and Sheppard lines. I guess one reason against this is that Sheppard was never intended to be a stub.
One opinion I am looking for is whether express tracks are and should they be considered for new lines such as Eglinton?
Funny how Toronto was once referred to as New York City run by the Swiss. It seems like they took a lesson and are advancing and now it is Toronto's turn to look at how they run things to see what we can learn as we grow into what I hope will be the best metropolitan area on Earth!
The roads seem to flow fairly well in NYC. Drivers are, let me say, "assertive". They use their horn appropriately and drive decisively. There are lanes for buses, emergency vehicles marked on the road. Every other avenue or street seems to alternate between one way direction and the other way. Some roads are double-decked. I was wondering what the advantages or reason for this is as I've never seen that done here, other than minimally along the Gardiner with Lake Shore underneath. What if you added more lanes on top of an existing roadway (perhaps like if the 401 express lanes were on top of rather than beside each other)?
As for the subway, the system is vast and works. It's not the nicest looking thing, but it gets you where you need to go. The trains are less frequent as interlining is pretty much standard. By that, I mean subway lines are just infrastructure and routes run on various lines. So for instance, all of the N, R, and Q "routes" use either of the Broadway line's express or local tracks, but diverge to either Astoria or Queens Blvd. lines at the north end of the route.
If Toronto took a more incremental approach to building subway infrastructure, aka the few kms/year method discussed many times, it could perhaps offer a manageable way to expand the network. So for instance, Yonge, University, and Bloor-Danforth are the trunk lines. Off Yonge, you have the Sheppard line slowly adding to the network. Rather than appearing to be a stub (much like a short line like Astoria), it is a route that continues off the Yonge line. So, a route 4 train could use both the inftrastructure of the Yonge and Sheppard lines. I guess one reason against this is that Sheppard was never intended to be a stub.
One opinion I am looking for is whether express tracks are and should they be considered for new lines such as Eglinton?
Funny how Toronto was once referred to as New York City run by the Swiss. It seems like they took a lesson and are advancing and now it is Toronto's turn to look at how they run things to see what we can learn as we grow into what I hope will be the best metropolitan area on Earth!