Congratulations on completely missing my point.
Congratulations on being vague and ambiguous on what your point was.
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.
World class cities do not have slow zones everywhere. But the GTA is no better at subway operations than buses and LRTs? What planet are you living on. TTC might not be the best at subway operations, but there's hardly one that comes 15 minutes later followed by 5 coming right behind each other. Subway service is pretty regular and still relatively good and reliable despite the slow zones.
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.
I have not once said that it would be a good idea to put a subway there. Nice try with your assumptions. I'd rather have a bus lane or a busway instead so that $3.5 Billion isn't squandered on rail transit that stops at traffic lights and runs at a slow average speed. And I'd rather build one subway line where it's needed than two LRT lines. And if you're gonna pull that "are you seriously for less transit" argument, then I could use the same argument, considering you can build a lot more buses on their own right of way for the price of one LRT with very similar benefits and nowhere near the cost. As for pushing for better practices, how's that worked out for Spadina? Or St. Clair? Have they gotten faster over the years? Have they improved service? You seem to be of the impression of building something that
maybe just
maybe might one day be improved, even though the city has a bad track record at implementation. With the hope of "Golly gee, maybe, just maybe,
this time, they will do better" even after years and years they have refused to do so with 510 and 512 which were initially marketed as LRTs and are still similar to what was built on Finch. We both know that the speed is crappy and it's highly unlikely that much will change. We've seen the abysmally slow 510 and 512 for decades without meaningful improvements, yet we have people like you advocating for more of the same at about half the cost of a subway (in reference to technologies only, not saying to build a subway on Finch). I'd rather build transit that will be a noticeable improvement and incentivize people to get off their cars. A 13.5 km/h fancy streetcar is unlikely to do that.
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.
I meant to say most buses/streetcars/LRTs in Toronto. European LRTs have signal priority, stops further apart usually, and are often grade separated. As I said above, you can achieve the same outcomes with a rapid busway for a fraction of the cost. And most people here
do take me seriously, as I've had a lot of positive reaction to my posts and good conversations in private. You are just saying whatever shit comes to your mind to discredit my posts which, which is just plain disingenuous.
