reaperexpress
Senior Member
There is general agreement that the St. Clair and Spadina "LRT" lines are not shining examples of LRT design. They are notoriously slow, largely due to poor transit priority and inherently obstructive vehicular left turns.
We were told that Transit City would be a large improvement upon that design, but personally, I don't see it. Based on the following animation from VivaNext, the future rapidways don't offer any improvements either:
[video=youtube;ko4s0JpQPRM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ko4s0JpQPRM[/video]
Given that so much of the planned transit in the GTA is situated in the median of roads, it is imperative that we improve on the design used on Spadina and St. Clair, rather than rehashing it in larger iterations.
I've heard numerous suggestions to improve the design of median LRT or BRT, ranging from modified light cycles all the way to grade separation. This is the thread for those ideas.
We were told that Transit City would be a large improvement upon that design, but personally, I don't see it. Based on the following animation from VivaNext, the future rapidways don't offer any improvements either:
[video=youtube;ko4s0JpQPRM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ko4s0JpQPRM[/video]
Given that so much of the planned transit in the GTA is situated in the median of roads, it is imperative that we improve on the design used on Spadina and St. Clair, rather than rehashing it in larger iterations.
I've heard numerous suggestions to improve the design of median LRT or BRT, ranging from modified light cycles all the way to grade separation. This is the thread for those ideas.