junctionist
Senior Member
It makes a good first impression, but I hope that what they decide to get is dominated by the red/black combination like the CLRVs.
One of the reasons that I call for less stops particularly on streetcar routes is to increase the possibility that you could do something similar to what Berlin does here.Another consideration will be the greater distance back that motorists have to give for these new streetcars. In Berlin, there is a line drawn on the road with a traffic light that automatically goes to red once a streetcar pulls up to a stop. This gives passengers loading and unloading from the five doors a very clear berth of the road. Of course, the Toronto Transit Cynic (TTC!) in me is morosely predicting that nothing like this would happen here, given that signal priority systems have not been enabled on any streetcar routes in this city have never been enabled, despite having been designed for that purpose.
But if there are less stops, people will have to walk farther to get to their stop, and going shopping in the empty fields at Jane and Eglinton will become considerably less attractive by streetcar.
The Jane LRT would have a stop/station at Weston Road, which will have Emmett at its south end. However, since Eglinton would probably be built before Jane, a transfer to a Jane northbound bus may have to be done.
Does anyone know the grade of the the inclines on Jane and Eglinton? I think that the several hills, valleys, and railway bridge in the Mt. Dennis (Jane, Weston, and Eglinton) area maybe tunneled through so that the steep inclines would not have to navigated.
There is a preferred grade incline of 5% for the new LRVs. The steepest current grade incline is at Bathurst Street and Davenport, which is 8%.
Ideally these new TC lines don't have to adhere to 'straight' formulae and the Jane stop can actually be veered upto Jane/Weston instead of in the midsts of Eglinton Flats park. At least then a sizable local density, proximity to Weston Village and West Park Medical can be achieved.
Yet European cities have stop placement every 0.5km to 1km apart.Now we have an almost fanatical light rail dogma, except it's one that seems bent on ignoring many of the positives of 'European-style' systems, which Adam Giambrone keeps telling us is what we're in fact getting.
Not on downtown, mixed traffic lines. The central Prague streetcar network is a lot like Toronto. It's in the outlying areas that they get faster with stops farther apart.Yet European cities have stop placement every 0.5km to 1km apart.