Voltz
Senior Member
Then why will Eglinton run at the same speed as the BD, when there is only 11 stations (11 journey segments) from Brentcliffe (due north of Pape) to Keele, when there are 15 stations on the BD for the same distance; especially as the SRT has faster acceleration than the subway (and the LRT should match the SRT?) Shouldn't the operating speed be faster than 30 km/hr?
Let's look at it this way. The station spacing for the 11 stations on the 9.5 km from Brentcliffe to Keele averages 860 metres. The station spacing for the 3 stations on the 2.4 km from Ellesmere to McCowan is 800 metres. Yet for that distance the SRT takes 4 minutes averaging 36 km/hr compared to 30 km/hr on Eglinton (and I have to think with that curve between Ellesemere and Midland, and the way it crawls from Scarborough Centre to McCowan, that the SRT isn't exactly at it's best!).
Why is the planned speed for Eglinton much slower than the SRT, when the stations average further apart?
It seems to me the predicted travel time from Brentcliffe to Keele should be closer to 14 minutes than 19 minutes.
I do agree the estimated speed for eglinton seems a little low, maybe they are arbitrarily limiting the maximum speed on the simulations? As long as the LRT vehicles can cruise at 70 km/h then I would not worry about it.
The SRT is such a short trip that a small drop in speed would be more than offset by any one of the following, the extension, decrease in headway that would happen, or even a subway extension.