Finch West Line 6 LRT

[robmausser]

Wouldn't it have been better to put the bike lanes on the other side of the trees and beside the pedestrian sidewalk?

I believe that there has to be some kind of space for emergency stopping for cars on a road like Finch. So you'd have to have a curb for cars, the trees, the bike lane, some median between the bike lane and sidewalk for pedestrian safety. And by that point you dont have room.

 

[KevinT]

Wouldn't it have been better to put the bike lanes on the other side of the trees and beside the pedestrian sidewalk?

Agreed.

Hopefully they won't do it like the streetscape 'improvements' in uptown Waterloo. There they used roll curbs between the road and the bike lanes (so the bike lanes could be plowed by the road plows they said), and drivers keep using them as street parking. It doesn't help that downtown Kitchener specifically started using roll curbs to separate their street parking from the road a few years earlier. :-(

Ideally these Finch bike lanes would be separated from the road by standard 15 cm curbs, but the diagram doesn't give me much hope.

 

[KevinT]

Hopefully they won't do it like the streetscape 'improvements' in uptown Waterloo. There they used roll curbs between the road and the bike lanes (so the bike lanes could be plowed by the road plows they said), and drivers keep using them as street parking. It doesn't help that downtown Kitchener specifically started using roll curbs to separate their street parking from the road a few years earlier. :-(

Ha, Waterloo is doing a bit of an about-face on that:

TheRecord.com, Waterloo Region considering changes to uptown cycling lanes

In a letter circulated to area residents and businesses earlier this month, senior project manager Eric Saunderson said the region's Feb. 19 planning and works committee meeting will consider a plan to add additional signage in the area, paint more road markings in the bike lanes, and install flexible posts known as bollards to deter vehicles from parking or stopping in the lanes.

 

[Edllguy]

Surprised there hasn't been any announcements about the Finch West LRT project in general.


There's also the Public Realm Amount funding that goes toward infrastructure enhancements along the Finch Corridor, nothing announced...wonder what the delay is?


https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2016/ex/bgrd/backgroundfile-90775.pdf

 

[Allandale25]

 

[SaugeenJunction]

Wut? Not sure what that is and why it's only six seconds long... maybe for ad boards at Union?

 

[thettctransitfanatic]

I'll give it a watch.

 

[nfitz]

Surprised there hasn't been any announcements about the Finch West LRT project in general.

They seem to me to be never-ending announcements, which isn't surprising as construction ramps up. See https://twitter.com/FinchWestLRT/

Their current pinned tweet seemed particularly significant.

Was there some particular announcement you were expecting?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1092847535931211776

 

[WislaHD]

I think it will become increasingly obvious as the Spring progresses that we will actually be getting an LRT on Finch.

 

[adrianaliu]

real shame that viva and ion will have much better stops with shelters and such with a quarter of the ridership

 

[thettctransitfanatic]

real shame that viva and ion will have much better stops with shelters and such with a quarter of the ridership

Of course. FWLRT is short for the route it is. It would have gone east of Finch West Station over to Finch, but the Libs cut funding.

 

[hw621]

Of course. FWLRT is short for the route it is. It would have gone east of Finch West Station over to Finch, but the Libs cut funding.

It should have done that at the first place.

 

[WislaHD]

To be frank if the LRT routes are successful, and I imagine they will be. I think seeing them extended quickly would be likely given it shouldn't take too long to construct. Though if they were smart they'd extend Finch underground to Finch Station and create another line similar to Eglinton to the north.

Have you looked at the stretch of Finch between Keele and Yonge Street by Google satellite imagery by any chance? Aside from a cluster near Bathurst, it is not very dense, contains employment lands, and a ravine.

 

[Neutrino]

Have you looked at the stretch of Finch between Keele and Yonge Street by Google satellite imagery by any chance? Aside from a cluster near Bathurst, it is not very dense, contains employment lands, and a ravine.

And yet the Finch bus in that area is overflowing. In Toronto, density is not a good predictor of ridership.

 

[nfitz]

real shame that viva and ion will have much better stops with shelters and such with a quarter of the ridership

Seems fair - If only one-quarter of the ridership, they'll need better shelters, as service would be less frequent!

If both long waits and little shelter, would probably have less riders!