max
Active Member
If the contact wire gets struck by lightning while the LRT is going 88 mph, they can go back put money on Finch opening first...and also the Cubs.
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Tyler Friesen
New Member
I didn't think to compare them against the cars, but they seemed to be moving at a pace that felt..... normal. Like, they definitely weren't crawling. Although, I did notice one get stuck behind a couple lights in a row (I wanna say this was around the Tobermory and Jane stops?), so combined with the far-side platforms, there was a good couple minutes where I felt like I was getting pretty close to it again after it had passed me a few minutes earlier. But then the next light turned green and it sailed off into the sunset, never to be seen again. So yeah, they didn't seem to be blazing fast, but this was no Spadina streetcar either
hw621
Senior Member
So again they are stuck behind red lights, no signal priority.
anb
Active Member
Unfortunately yes, saw an LRT in both directions at Westmore and they had to wait for the left turn signal to turn red before their own signal light turned green. Also their light turns red much more earlier than the general traffic lights so these small instances can cause delays for the entire line at times. If there's no signal priority, then what makes this any more different than the Viva bus lanes in York Region?
goodcitywhenfinished
Active Member
ssiguy2
Senior Member
What will be the speed limit for these LRTs? Will they have a higher one than the cars?
jordanmkasla2009
Active Member
Line 6 will have a speed limit of 60 km/h.
hw621
Senior Member
ssiguy2
Senior Member
So this "rapid transit" is going to warp out at 60km/hr, have to wait for red lights, and have too many stations. All this for just $1.5 billion.......what a deal.
Torontonians are going to be awfully disappointed when they find out that they have put up with endless construction for a system that won't be any faster than an express bus with limited stops and que-jumping lanes at intersections.
Torontonians are going to be awfully disappointed when they find out that they have put up with endless construction for a system that won't be any faster than an express bus with limited stops and que-jumping lanes at intersections.
reinventingthewheel
Senior Member
This project has always been about increasing capacity. Rush hour bus headways on Finch could not be reduced further.
Steve X
Senior Member
The main goal as stated many years ago is not to build an express train (which they could have done on the hydro corridor just north of Finch) but a surface (easy to access) line to help riders connect between different destinations along Finch Ave West and promote midrise development along the corridor. Many riders don't actually travel from Finch to downtown. This forum however is obsess with subways and long distance commutes, which doesn't fit in the agenda of many users on this corridor.
The Eglinton East LRT and all former Transit City lines also share this design. The city could improve it with better transit priority though.
felix123
Active Member
robmausser
Senior Member
The density of Finch really doesn't warrant anything better, sorry. Subways, subways, subways is over with the death of Rob Ford. It turned out he had enough Subway to eat at home anyways.
The public there will absolutely be glad to have a higher capacity transit system than the currently always overfull buses.
Also, if we wanted, an LRT could never ever wait for a red light. It's literally as easy as reprogramming the transit priority system. Everything is ready to go. The only thing stopping it are the boomers at city hall that run Toronto Transportation.
nfitz
Superstar
I hate to say something positive about Doug Ford, but he's initiated more subway than I ever expected to see built in my lifetime.
evandyk
Senior Member
The last estimate they gave us was $2.5B and that was in 2023.