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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...

When is your anecdotal experience from? Because if it's post-pandemic, then the commuter train service hasn't existed, which would entirely explain why people aren't commuting on the train.

Fallowfield doesn't matter because trains serve the station from both tracks and it's single track between there and Brockville regardless. Trenton Junction is actually on the north track, not the southern one, which is a big nuisance. The old train 48 needed to be on the south track at Port...

Napanee and Trenton are definitely the least used stations between Kingston and Toronto, if only because hardly any trains stop there. But unless you're proposing to actually close down those stations, at least one train needs to stop at them. So the question is which train would be most useful...

I've consolidated the new Ottawa-Toronto timetable including the new train 641: The stopping pattern of 641 seems strange. The intent is presumably to provide a commuter service to Toronto similar to the pre-pandemic train 651 (shown in green below), yet it skips some of the potential...

The HFR proposal has the Via mainline remaining north of the CPKC line at all times, avoiding the need to have any grade separation at all. As long as the HFR option remains on the table, a flyover wouldn't be an attractive solution since it could become superfluous in the future.

Again, for the third time, I never said that you need a lineside signal at each block. I simply said that omitting a lineside signal doesn't make a big difference to the cost of a block because the big expense is the track detection. The cost of maintaing all that detection equipment is commonly...

I'm well aware that L2 doesn't require lineside signals. Those are just for the non-equipped trains. My point is that unlike Level 3, you still need physical blocks and thus physical detection for each block regardless of whether you install a signal. Obviously the block layout will be...