It's called average speed.
Congratulations on completely missing my point.
The point is that if best practices aren't followed on a mode of transport - ANY mode of transport - delays and inefficiencies arise. When poor operational practices result in an LRT line running slower than it could, you're all out here clamouring to have subways subways subways built everywhere instead, but when the same thing happens on the subway, you're all weirdly silent.
Call a spade a spade - admit that the GTA is no better at subway or bus operations than LRTs - or admit that you're letting your own bias against LRT colour your own perception and arguments. The double standards here are ASTONISHING. World class cities don't have oodles of slow zones that take months to remove, that weren't discovered until an entire line was shut down due to deferred maintenance.
The fact that they've bungled the Finch implementation, and will no doubt do the same on Eglinton, is not a compelling argument to have subways on those corridors instead. It's a compelling argument to criticize the implementation and push for better practices, including traffic priority and higher allowed speeds. Especially Finch, which is perfectly suited for an LRT - if you told a European that you were proposing to build a subway on that corridor instead, they'd laugh in your face.
Also, even the slow zones have a higher average speed than any LRT, streetcar, or bus route.
What a load of bunk! Have you ever ridden a bus in the suburbs? Or an LRT in Europe? With the sole exception of the Yorkdale-Lawrence West slow zone, all of the reduced speed zones have a maximum speed between 15 and 25 km/h, which buses and European LRTs
routinely go faster than. Perhaps people would take your argument more seriously if you didn't make shit up in order to back your argument up.
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