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Given that a lot of Via's current signalling was built after 2008, I don't imagine there's much equipment at end of life yet, so L1 might still a more economical option for them. Also since they still need to maintain access for CN using lineside signals. Though if they run fast/frequent enough...

We discussed that at length earlier in this thread

So you would rather the bus stop be removed? The current policy is to only have bus stops in places they can be safely accessed from both sides of the street, so either they make it safe for pedestrians to cross or they remove the bus stop and thereby prevent anyone in the neighbourhood from...

I google "[intersection name] traffic signal site:toronto.ca"

The report is here: https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2023/ey/bgrd/backgroundfile-234440.pdf The main rationale is that there's otherwise no safe way to cross the street to access the bus stops (it was previously 825 metres between pedestrian crossings, which is extremely long). I can't find...

Do you know if the survey is still open? I'd like to point out to them that the train screens at Union are severely misleading. Under the column "To" they wrote the name of the line, not the place the train is going to. For example, the screens say "to Kitchener" on trains that are not going to...

Not only that, when they upgraded the crossings, they installed new crossing signals directly where the second track used to be - even though Metrolinx had already decided to (re-)double track the line through Guelph at that point. So now some of the hardest work on that segment is to relocate...

For me the biggest frustration on the Kitchener line is the lack of movement on the west half of the Guelph siding. Breslau is complete, Acton sounds like it's going to be underway shortly (and it seems pretty simple given that there was already a siding there before), so the Guelph siding is...

Well yeah it was called the King Street Pilot for a reason. It was just a pilot project. We did a quick cheap test using mostly paint and signs to confirm that removing through motor traffic from King Street isn't the end of the world. The test confirmed that hypothesis. The total car trips in...

Because your claim was this: Your claim was not that the designers were faced with political factors that forced them to adopt a heavily suboptimal design, your claim was that the designers lacked the creativity to come up with the idea of a transit mall or a ROW. That claim is objectively...

That's nice but it's not what you described a second ago:

Draw me a cross section of what you want at a platform. Streetmix is a quick tool for drawing cross sections. For the record, when I was on the design team I was pushing for the intermittent transit mall option, not the half-assed design we got.

This comment is what happens when someone who hasn't put any serious thought into the design thinks they're creative.

Yes it has been proposed countless times since the 1950's and it has never made sense because it would undermine the attractiveness of streetcar service by separating the eastbound and westbound stops. It's far more effective for transit to operate on a street where traffic operations are...

Yes but only a small proportion of the total expense of adding a new signalling system. However, if their trains are already ETCS-equipped then that would certainly encourage them to select ETCS if they're looking for a new system, not just to avoid of the cost of maintaining two sets of onboard...

Oh right! I forgot about that happening through the flyover project. Yeah that's the kind of thing I was trying to display by adding the crossover status in. There's a similar situation on the Stouffville line where the track from Kennedy to Highland Creek is complete but can't be used since...

A black sign with a white right turn arrow - the sign we are talking about - is a lane designation sign. It designates the right lane as right turn only. There is no time of day when taxis are allowed to proceed straight from the right turn lane.

Yes I'm well aware of how Fallowfield operates, in fact I made these diagrams illustrating the operation for an earlier discussion on UT. I didn't think it was necessary to go into every possible detail when simply discussing the places where trains are constrained to a single track. Ah...

Train 41 is clearly visible in both the pre- and post-pandemic timetables that I posted, but it didn't/doesn't stop at Napanee or Trenton.

Why would the taxi rule prevent you from putting a Right Turn Lane sign on the right turn lane? Taxis can never go straight from the right turn lane, only buses and bicycles can. I think the main thing preventing you from hanging a Transit Lane sign over the transit lane is that the streetcar...