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Andy Byford and Brad Ross did the ice bucket challenge!

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St. Clair Transit Signal Priority

The signal priority on St. Clair is not working in so many locations that the TTC must adjust schedules to provide more running time for the streetcars. Up to 8 minutes of additional round-trip time will be added to the schedules, and headways will be widened to accommodate this.

This is a perfect example of how capital spending — provision of a transit right-of-way — can be sabotaged by operational decisions, in this case by a separate agency — City Transportation Services — regarding the priority of keeping TSP working.
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City of Toronto Transportation Services has been standing in the way of signal priority for years. It's about time the TTC started making noise about this issue. Its outrageous that streetcars with 100+ people on them have to wait to cross an intersection that often nobody uses.
 
TheTigerMaster said:
http://stevemunro.ca/?p=10172

City of Toronto Transportation Services has been standing in the way of signal priority for years. It's about time the TTC started making noise about this issue. Its outrageous that streetcars with 100+ people on them have to wait to cross an intersection that often nobody uses.
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Especially with LRT coming. Are we honestly going to accept having this problem on the Crosstown?

St. Clair & Spadina need full signal priority at every intersection, except in extreme cases where headways get very tight. City Council needs to order Transportation Service to shut up and do it.
 
1overcosc said:
Especially with LRT coming. Are we honestly going to accept having this problem on the Crosstown?

St. Clair & Spadina need full signal priority at every intersection, except in extreme cases where headways get very tight. City Council needs to order Transportation Service to shut up and do it.
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Eglinton at-grade is not comparable at all to St Clair or Spadina, and to be honest, I don't even think signal priority will be needed on Eglinton east for it to go pretty fast.

The reason is that many of the intersections on Eglinton East give Eglinton the green light 90% of the time. They are often intersections with very minor roads or entrances into big box shopping centre parking lots, so Eglinton being a major road gets green most of the time. You can easily see this if you drive on Eglinton late at night when there's no traffic (to simulate an LRT since it will have it's own lane).
 
ehlow said:
Eglinton at-grade is not comparable at all to St Clair or Spadina, and to be honest, I don't even think signal priority will be needed on Eglinton east for it to go pretty fast.

The reason is that many of the intersections on Eglinton East give Eglinton the green light 90% of the time. They are often intersections with very minor roads or entrances into big box shopping centre parking lots, so Eglinton being a major road gets green most of the time. You can easily see this if you drive on Eglinton late at night when there's no traffic (to simulate an LRT since it will have it's own lane).
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Why do I always see the streetcars on the Queensway right-of-way, with stops generally far apart, having to wait at red lights before they can reach the far-side stops? I don't see transit priority along there. The Transportation Department could use the Queensway right-of-way as a test route. Experiment along the Queensway, do your work to make transit priority work there.
 
I don't see that a lot of experimentation is required as proof of concept, but if Transportation Services simply needs convincing, yes, The Queensway would be the perfect place for them to perform these mysterious experiments!

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If you think we have it bad for Signal Priority, Boston Sliver line is even worse to the point traffic block the buses even when the buses get a green. Big signs are posted to tell drivers not to block the busway, but they do.

Even the Tide LRT has no Signal Priority and the same for Boston Green Line. Those videos are on line

Boston
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http://youtu.be/91OhS4GKY6E

How they put the poles up
http://youtu.be/9GD0ecbaY6U

How they dewire the buses
http://youtu.be/hnCkXheM-Es
 
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