GameOnBrad
Active Member
On line one. Electronic displays were updated...
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Finch West Line 6 LRT
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Jac.
New Member
They really should look into revamping the map in the near future because trying to look at this from the perspective of a newcomer, this is very visually overwhelming and messy.
hw621
Senior Member
Nothing more of a Welcome to Toronto than this...
2323
New Member
Likely it will get to a point where it is just the line map of the train you are on, like the ones we see on Line 6 trains. And then, a regional diagram (Metrolinx's is actually very good) could be posted somewhere else along the train.
abovegrade
Active Member
how is this overwhelming?
lrt's friend
Active Member
So true. The trains on both lines are still too slow and station dwell times are too long.
If trip times are too long, it wears on passengers over time. In Ottawa, I still marvel about how slow trains are near Hurdman.
With common trains, it would be interesting to compare Ottawa Line 1 with Finch Line 6.
JasonParis
Moderator
Line 5 and Line 6 don't flash at their interchanges, unfortunately.
JasonParis
Moderator
My Instagram Stories from Sunday's opening are here. I rode it late-morning for what it's worth...
https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/18087968410792858/
https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/18087968410792858/
GameOnBrad
Active Member
There is a very easy and clean solution to fixing the line 1 electronic displays but it would take some reworking. I always found it funny how large the lights were. They could easily just create a new board with lights 50% smaller and it would easily solve the clutter.
That said, they could just make it a digital display instead that zooms out to the whole map when stopped at a station and zooms in while moving between stations. Think like a PnP TV.
That said, they could just make it a digital display instead that zooms out to the whole map when stopped at a station and zooms in while moving between stations. Think like a PnP TV.
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Kyle Campbell
Senior Member
So of the existing light rail lines in Ontario
Ottawa's Line 1 using the same Citadis vehicle as Finch travels 12.5 km in 25-29 minutes. It used to do under 24 before all the slow zones
Ottawa's Line 2, which is considered slow, travels 19km in 36-40 minutes
Line 4 makes it 4km run in 9 min.
Of course those are grade separated.
Ion also travels 19km, in about 40-45 minutes
Finch plods along at 11km in an hour. That's absymal. Even if it shrinks to 45 minutes, its still the slowest line in the province
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hw621
Senior Member
It's completely normal when the TTC is operating it...
Midtown Urbanist
Superstar
And they may as well add St Clair and Spadina LRTs in
kalis0490
New Member
According to this document the projected travel time from Fairway to Downtown Cambridge is 29 minutes, which given a distance of 17 km, means a projected travel speed of 34km/h - as fast as B-D (line 2) (and thrice as fast as Finch West).
the reason for not going straight from Preston to Galt is because the true goal is to redevelop and turn hespeler rd into the new cambridge city downtown. Heres a great article explaining the hespeler rd vision: https://www.cambridgetoday.ca/local...tage-to-reshape-key-parts-of-the-city-6214764
urbanclient
Active Member
Phase 2 ION going 34 km/h would not only be faster than Line 2 TTC's actual speeds*, it would also be faster than Line 2 TTC scheduled speeds (28.5 to 32.4 km/h).
*which are always slower than scheduled speeds.
Service Summaries:
Transit Planning
The TTC has two major objectives in planning its transit services: to maximize mobility within the City of Toronto; to ensure that transit services are efficient and cost-effective.
www.ttc.ca
dowlingm
Senior Member
Stuart Green “misspoke” so the CBC article has a correction and the headline no longer mentions 10 minutes
That said, clearly the rage about the LRT’s speed broke containment beyond transit forums and Bluesky