p5connex
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I am still amazed by the fact that this city doesn't time the lights around the city. Its ludicrous and just causes more traffic and congestion problems.
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I am still amazed by the fact that this city doesn't time the lights around the city. Its ludicrous and just causes more traffic and congestion problems. 5
??? The City (and Metro) have been timing lights since at least the 1970s. Not sure why you'd say that. You only have to drive around the same area regularly, to see the patterns.I am still amazed by the fact that this city doesn't time the lights around the city. Its ludicrous and just causes more traffic and congestion problems.
I just drove from Front and Spadina to Bloor and Spadina without a single red light!!!
Does Toronto publish when/which streets have timed traffic lights? NYC drivers have an instinctive knowledge of which N-S street is timed.
Would prioritizing certain streets and informing drivers work well in the core (along with informing drivers)? For example, University and Jarvis going north in the morning, Bay and Yonge going South (Lakeshore all the way to Bloor). Spadina & Bathurst would have streetcar priority so it could not be car prioritized. And of course Bloor and Lakeshore (timed to get you to/from Yonge St in each direction).
Signal prioritization of E-W streetcars would have to be addressed. But they move so slowly in the core, I'm not sure if it would help. Keeping N-S cars from blocking the streetcars due to traffic jams & red lights may help the streetcars move faster.
was there not talk last year at city hall to synchronize traffic lights across the city? anyone know how this is progressing?
for a city with such serious congestion issues this seems like a relatively "easy win".
The short answer is this was done decades ago. The mayor and councillors pushing it didn't realize traffic flows in 4 directions within Toronto (North, South, East, and West). It does not have a predominant traffic pattern of everybody into the middle in the morning, then the reverse in the evening. You can only synchronize for 1 of those 4 directions at the expense of the other 3.