Finch West Line 6 LRT

[2323]

Finch Ouest?

I presume it's translating "Finch West" as a street name and not as Finch + the direction west.

 

[McGillicuddy]

I've always been confused over the French translations.

Finch Ouest?

If they start translating station names, we end up with delights such as:

• Parc de la Reine
• Musée
• Moulin ancien
• UTM (which, confusingly, would be nowhere near UTM)
• Rue principale
• Village des pionniers
• Château-François
• Haut-parc
• Quai de la Reine
• And, of course, Dupont

In practice, they get left in English, for the same reason that Air Canada won't sell you a ticket to Nouvelle-York.

 

[Steve X]

I presume it's translating "Finch West" as a street name and not as Finch + the direction west.

It is the destination Finch West (Station).

 

[Racer_77]

Has the TTC posted anything saying that they're opening Dec 7, or ar they being given the lodestone by Metrolinx?

No updates from the TTC, not sure what they plan to do here.

 

[anb]

At this point do the TTC themselves even know that they’re opening on December 7?

 

[Kyle Campbell]

I've always been confused over the French translations.

Finch Ouest?

It's actually better to use the common local name for the station.

In Ottawa there's only one station with a bilingual name, Parliament/Parlement. All the others remain in their default language used by the locals, like "Mooney's Bay","Tunney's Pasture" "Lycée Claudel", "Place d'Orléans" etc.

 

[jmi22]

Your claim that the LRT doesn't stand a chance to beat the LRT appears to be egregiously false

The LRT won't beat the LRT.....?

 

[nfitz]

The LRT won't beat the LRT.....?

Second LRT = Bus

Ooh, dodging the questions, with a language flame ...

 

[felix123]

Traffic was light, but really disappointing the LRT doesn't stand a chance of out competing private vehicle travel times on Finch itself. Light rail was never going to be able to compete in terms of regional travel with private vehicles using 400 series highways, but "losing the race" on the LRT's own corridor should really prompt some introspection if such modes are worth the billions going forward. Even on the subways worst day's, the chances of them losing a 1-1 race along Bloor, Yonge or Danforth against a car on the same street is one in a million.

This will definitely be an improvement for existing riders (excluding the objectively worse weather protection offered by the LRT stations) but by no means should we expect an uptick in "choice riders" taking transit, a goal which subways undoubtedly accomplish.

I notice this in the videos too. The LRT will have a long straightaway (in its own ROW, of course) yet it's still being passed by the majority of cars that are sharing a lane. Line 5 seems to be even worse.

You can go to Berlin and see the dedicated ROW trams there easily outcompete road traffic in terms of speed, so it's not as if we can't do it here too.

 

[jmi22]

Second LRT = Bus

Ooh, dodging the questions, with a language flame ...

I'm not sure what argument you are chasing, in the post you initially responded to I was comparing the travel times of private vehicles along Finch to the LRT.

"Traffic was light, but really disappointing the LRT doesn't stand a chance of out competing private vehicle travel times on Finch itself. "

I promise you would feel so much less angst should you dedicate a whole 90 seconds to watching a stretch of the video where drum118 (in his car) comes up alongside a LRT, and quickly passes it in light-moderate traffic over a series of about 3 intersections, before permanently leaving it behind.

 

[nfitz]

I'm not sure what argument you are chasing, in the post you initially responded to I was comparing the travel times of private vehicles along Finch to the LRT.

"Traffic was light, but really disappointing the LRT doesn't stand a chance of out competing private vehicle travel times on Finch itself. "

Ah - my apologies. Though it's the bus it needs to beat to grow ridership.

Recall that the premise of the line back in 2007 wasn't so much current travel speeds, but increased future congestion if they didn't do something, with "A Place to Grow". The whole idea is that by diverting more travel to transit, that the congestion won't be as bad.

That said, when I checked the travel times for bus at PM peak, it showed up to an hour driving time (which I assume means the bus will also be late). I suspect the LRT will be much more predictable.

 

[Metroscapes]

If they start translating station names, we end up with delights such as:

• Parc de la Reine
• Musée
• Moulin ancien
• UTM (which, confusingly, would be nowhere near UTM)
• Rue principale
• Village des pionniers
• Château-François
• Haut-parc
• Quai de la Reine
• And, of course, Dupont

In practice, they get left in English, for the same reason that Air Canada won't sell you a ticket to Nouvelle-York.

This is fun, you should make (or partner with someone to make) a proposed translated TTC map.

 

[JasonParis]

As an aside, Line 6 should just be Finch. We don't call Line 4 Sheppard East.

 

[denfromoakvillemilton]

Excited!

 

[Mihairokov]

It's actually better to use the common local name for the station.

In Ottawa there's only one station with a bilingual name, Parliament/Parlement. All the others remain in their default language used by the locals, like "Mooney's Bay","Tunney's Pasture" "Lycée Claudel", "Place d'Orléans" etc.

You left out the best one