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Toronto Eglinton Line 5 | ?m | ?s | Metrolinx | Arcadis

north-of-anything said:
The main problem I see with shutting down Eglinton would be that in a lot of places, there really aren't a lot of alternative routes. Between Laird and Pharmacy, there are few to no parallel streets that can absorb any traffic, unless you go far out of your way. The most viable alternative for crossing the Don River would probably be Millwood Road and O'Connor Drive. In these times, the capacity is there, but I don't think Metrolinx likes the idea of redirecting people that far away.
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well to be fair we are under virtual lockdown orders except for essential errands. Whoever is driving when theyre not supposed to is at their own peril at this time so hopefully metrolinx will do the sensible thing and GZF to cars over the potential of clawing back prgress
 
^Just read an article about Florida’s Brightline which stated that their contractors have been able to add labour this month, because other construction in the state is curtailed by COVID, so people are available. Yeah, I know, Florida.... but I wonder if that is happening in Toronto.

- Paul
 
Allandale25 said:
I hadn't heard they are changing station name from Cedarville to "Allen Rd & Eglinton". Has that already be posted here before?
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They mention Cedarvale at 2:10 in the video. But I mean it's still a better than Cedarvale so I'm fine with the name change.
WislaHD said:
Anecdotal, but today there has been a noticeable uptick on workers and trucks on Eglinton, like higher than pre-COVID-19 levels.
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Perhaps they are taking advantage of traffic levels to help speed up construction across the line.
 
^ Yeah they mention Cedarvale and mention the name change and display the text, then say Cedarvale again. Same. New name is better.
 
I went on the Metrolinx engage site for a look around and something caught my eye on the surface section.
www.metrolinxengage.com

Eglinton Crosstown LRT - Events

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www.metrolinxengage.com

"In regards to transit signal priority along the surface portion, there will be limited signal priority permitted by the City of Toronto. The limited priority for the Eglinton Crosstown is an ability to call for an extended greens for the through movements going east/west where trains are running behind schedule.
However, in general, light rail vehicles will follow the road signals — stopping at reds, waiting for the advance turns to finish and then proceeding on green."

Turns out there's limited to no signal priority on the surface section.
 
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Coolstar said:
I went on the Metrolinx engage site for a look around and something caught my eye on the surface section.

"In regards to transit signal priority along the surface portion, there will be limited signal priority permitted by the City of Toronto. The limited priority for the Eglinton Crosstown is an ability to call for an extended greens for the through movements going east/west where trains are running behind schedule.
However, in general, light rail vehicles will follow the road signals — stopping at reds, waiting for the advance turns to finish and then proceeding on green."

Turns out there's limited to no signal priority on the surface section.
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Translation: Don't blame Doug Ford for wanting to put transit underground. Blame the City, who can't get their stuff together.

- Paul
 
Typical City of Toronto planning: no imagination, never change the status quo.

It doesn't surprise me whatsoever, like I said before; it's completely up to Toronto Transportation Services as to whether there will be signal priority activated on the corridor or not. If we had a somewhat visionary mayor, he/she would easily force their hand to make them activate it. But seeing as we have Tory in charge, dont hold your breath on it.

1st step of cripping the LRT has now been almost officially achieved. The next step: having the TTC cripple service by implementing their asinine stop and proceed procedure at switches, and slowing trains to 10km/r at all signalized intersections.
 
Coolstar said:
I went on the Metrolinx engage site for a look around and something caught my eye on the surface section.
www.metrolinxengage.com

Eglinton Crosstown LRT - Events

View upcoming/past events related to the Eglinton Crosstown LRT
www.metrolinxengage.com

"In regards to transit signal priority along the surface portion, there will be limited signal priority permitted by the City of Toronto. The limited priority for the Eglinton Crosstown is an ability to call for an extended greens for the through movements going east/west where trains are running behind schedule.
However, in general, light rail vehicles will follow the road signals — stopping at reds, waiting for the advance turns to finish and then proceeding on green."

Turns out there's limited to no signal priority on the surface section.
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Could they upgrade this in the future to give it more priority?
 
^I wonder how literally to take this description. It would be relatively complicated to evaluate vehicle by vehicle which are on schedule and which are not. And what is the threshold for "behind schedule"....ten seconds? Two minutes? Maybe the intent was simply to convey that priority is not granted to each and every vehicle, but the actual mechanics may have been glossed over.

To my non-technical mind, it would be simpler to grant or not grant priority based on a defined headway. If it has been more than x minutes since the last transit vehicle, grant priority to the next approaching vehicle. Then reset the clock. That way, there is no need to correlate any vehicle to a specific schedule.

By my count using Google Maps, there are 15 stoplights between the Brentcliffe portal and the Kennedy portal. Over that many intersections, priority signalling will make a considerable difference to velocity.

TTC's behaviour to date gives one little confidence that they will emphasise speed on this run. It will be much simpler to just pad headways to allow for traffic light delays. That would be a huge betrayal of Crosstown's potential. I sure hope that the various Transit influencers and media types rake Tory over the coals for letting this stand.

- Paul
 
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