Allandale25
Senior Member
^ Certainly a concern, but will it not be fairly easy to adjust the signal infrastructure a few months after it opens if they are having on-time performance issues?
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Steve X
Senior Member
I smell the Eglinton Streetcar arriving!
Decent timing can cut down on red time. This of course requires skills beyond what TO transportation is capable of.
Coolstar
Senior Member
Now it's a glorified streetcar.
kamira51
Active Member
duffo
Active Member
the biggest difficulty lies in determining who 'they' are, and if the 'they' who are willing to pay for signal upgrades is the same 'they' who is contractually on the hook for underperformance (...who is the same 'they' who has authority to allow new/innovative signalization strategies).
point being, even if CTSM wants to upgrade, you need to get TTC, Mx and the city to agree AND figure out who's gonna pay. I don't see this happening!
Monarch Butterfly
Superstar
Toronto's Transportation (Roads) Department is the major cause of the public transit roadblocks for improvements. Must not anger their automobile gods.
From link.
TheTigerMaster
Superstar
Please someone tell me that Ben Spurr has made a mistake here.
Even by Toronto's standards, this is utterly bizarre.
TheTigerMaster
Superstar
This isn't a monumental task. The TTC/City have employed transit priority at various locations elsewhere on the transit network.
This could be bureaucratic squabbling. Or perhaps they couldn't figure out how to effectively implement signal priority? We really need more answers, this is unacceptable.
TheTigerMaster
Superstar
Okay, so it turns out that saying the line "won't operate with transit priority" might be a bit misleading. See this thread by transit planner @larrylarry on Twitter.
I hope he's right on this.
https://twitter.com/larrylarry/status/1448004603639894019?s=20
JSF-1
Active Member
"Invisibility is a feature, especially when transit priority can be controversial."
This really just sums it all up doesn't it.
This really just sums it all up doesn't it.
Coolstar
Senior Member
Allandale25
Senior Member
drum118
Superstar
Yes he has, as its longer than 50 Seconds. If you add the extra 10 seconds that I have seen for the LRV's that have to stop sooner than traffic, it will be even longer than what the car gods are telling him how long it will be between light changes.
If he is going by what the car gods are say and doesn't know about the extra 10 seconds, he maybe right. I have never time that it takes between light changes.
ARG1
Senior Member
This is news to you? We've been talking about this for years now...
While the engineer that responded to him says there will be soft TSP, Metrolinx hasn't reaffirmed what he has said and all signs point to there no TSP at all.
44 North
Senior Member
So there really is less priority than streetcars and buses have on the TTC network today? Somehow I doubt that. It will likely be similar/better.