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

Repaving and lane marking installation east of Don Mills to Wynford has just started. This also includes the shitty painted bike lanes too!

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Not even buffered or protected under the DVP. Where it could desperately use protection in the dark.
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Oh boy, can't wait for a right hook. Why didn't they just make the raised bike lanes parallel with the sidewalk? Eglinton has the largest freaking right of ways in the city.
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Remember, these are actually the better, "buffered" bike lanes. Buffered shitty bike lane. Can't imagine how narrow the bike lane will be east of Victoria Park.

I'm still angry that Metrolinx had 11 years to refine the design on the bike lanes, yet lazily painted these lanes. This was an amazing opportunity to make Eglinton a perfect and safe bikable crosstown route like bloor, but is now unsafe and disjointed.
 
Seems like no one wants to pay to rebuild the overpass to accommodate a better bike lane. Alternative they can just screw traffic, narrow the roadway to one lane each direction and let everyone jam on the ramps. Probably not a good idea either.

Personally I believe the only high quality bike lanes are the ones that's grade separated from highway traffic ramps. Something no one is interested in investing in.
 
H4F33Z said:
Repaving and lane marking installation east of Don Mills to Wynford has just started. This also includes the shitty painted bike lanes too!

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Not even buffered or protected under the DVP. Where it could desperately use protection in the dark.
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Oh boy, can't wait for a right hook. Why didn't they just make the raised bike lanes parallel with the sidewalk? Eglinton has the largest freaking right of ways in the city.
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Remember, these are actually the better, "buffered" bike lanes. Buffered shitty bike lane. Can't imagine how narrow the bike lane will be east of Victoria Park.

I'm still angry that Metrolinx had 11 years to refine the design on the bike lanes, yet lazily painted these lanes. This was an amazing opportunity to make Eglinton a perfect and safe bikable crosstown route like bloor, but is now unsafe and disjointed.
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Dude, it's 2021. I cannot believe we are still building bike infrastructure like this.

Even as a regular car driver I much prefer driving on streets with physically separated bike lanes. It keeps the cars where the cars should be, the cyclists where they should be, and I can drive without ever worrying about a cyclist accidentally coming in my lane or vice versa. We gotta do better than this.
 
^Being generous, It did look like the roof is still wide open to the elements, so a certain amount of rainwater probably got in during some of the recent storms.

However, sure looked like there was seepage down the walls at track level. A bit troubling.

Dust abatement?

- Paul
 
I believe these lanes were specced back in 2012 or 2013 - bike lane design standards were way worse back then.

The Finch LRT has far better specced bike lanes, including a tunnel around the 400 interchange, as it was tendered later and could have more modern design standards applied.

You see the same thing with the Viva BRT projects - the initial lanes on Highway 7 in Markham haver fairly poor painted lanes but the more recent portions like in Thornhill have curb separated cycle tracks.
 
W. K. Lis said:
What's the speed limit for motorists along Eglinton Avenue? 50 km/h? 60 km/h? The traffic lanes look like they are DESIGNED for speeders doing 100+ km/h.
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unless you put roundabouts and speed bumps every 200m every straight road has people speeding very fast in the dead of night...
 
W. K. Lis said:
Instead of "speed bumps", use "raised crosswalks".

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Big concern for that is long term viability with heavy traffic and buses. This is good for quiet neighbourhoods but not feasible long term for a major artery road like Eglinton. Guarantee there will be refurbs of those every 5 years due to heavy usage and buses forming depressions over time when they drive over them
 
cplchanb said:
Big concern for that is long term viability with heavy traffic and buses. This is good for quiet neighbourhoods but not feasible long term for a major artery road like Eglinton. Guarantee there will be refurbs of those every 5 years due to heavy usage and buses forming depressions over time when they drive over them
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Use concrete instead of asphalt at crosswalks.
 
Voltz said:


I don't think I've seen this posted here yet.
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Obviously it's too early to make any proclamations about performance without signalling in place, but I must say that speed and performance does look very solid in this early stage of testing. It's nothing like the early days of ION testing, where LRVs were running very slow. It's plainly evident that this performance significantly better than the existing bus network.

Now we wait to see how the signal priority will perform. I wonder when we'll see testing of it.
 
TheTigerMaster said:
Obviously it's too early to make any proclamations about performance without signalling in place, but I must say that speed and performance does look very solid in this early stage of testing. It's nothing like the early days of ION testing, where LRVs were running very slow. It's plainly evident that this performance significantly better than the existing bus network.

Now we wait to see how the signal priority will perform. I wonder when we'll see testing of it.
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For Toronto's Transportation Department, that means the single-occupant vehicle turning left gets priority.
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From link.
 
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