[jordanmkasla2009]

[Citation Needed]

The supervisors I spoke to said that they were only running slow because the operators haven’t had nearly enough time to acclimate to the trains and that they plan to reduce the runtime gradually over time. ATP was also in full working order and was slowing down trains to maintain safe spacing

 

[Admiral Beez]

That way I always check if an LRT, or even a bus, I'm on is going to slow is to look out the window at the cars. If the cars are passing the LRT/Bus, it's going too slow.

How can it be possible a LRT on a ROW to be slower than vehicular traffic? Just make the signals give priority to the LRT and it should fly past any cars.

 

[sunnyraytoronto]

How can it be possible a LRT on a ROW to be slower than vehicular traffic? Just make the signals give priority to the LRT and it should fly past any cars.

Shhh,… this is Toronto,… Mayor Olivia Chow will reduce vehicular speed limit on Finch Ave West down to 10km/hr,.. so LRT can be faster than vehicular traffic

 

[goodcitywhenfinished]

Overall impression after riding back and forth from Humber: this line is a massive failure. I don’t think I have ever been more disappointed in this city/province. It’s so, so bad on every level.

Furthermore I do not see a future among Chow, Bradford, or a Tory redux (lol) where surface running transit is given signal priority. Getting red paint on Bathurst cost enormous amounts of political capital.

Days like this I seriously consider moving to Vancouver or Montreal

 

[denfromoakvillemilton]

Yikes...

What is the chance of an extension to Yonge or Don Mills? Or the Airport?

 

[FW36]

So based in comments best case secanrio LRT travel time from one end to another is about 35- 45 minutes, and when busy about 50+ minutes. It honestly is disappointing. It's an easy fix potentially but I really don't think Toronto will respond. I hope for the good of transit users toronto gives the LRT priority or else I think the project will be seen as a white elephant.

 

[Steve X]

Given the wide and uneven headways, one can expect it’ll take an hour from Finch West to Humber College. Yeah they should just call it 536 and celebrate it like the Cherry extension.

 

[Ward8]

This line is the death kneel for LRT in this city. With such crap speeds the public will turn against LRT in this form and I don’t see any more being built. We might as well just build BRT and save billions.

I think Line 5 may take that prize. As for saving billions.... Our inability to affordably build transit extents to BRT as well.

 

[Allandale25]

TTC has started up their web site for the Etobicoke—Finch West LRT.

So far they only have a PDF for the study area map.

I find the map interesting for in that the line could have its west end terminal at the Humber College north campus, my old college. A few years or decades late for me.

It's now open!

 

[unrealestate]

What a depressing first day of service. Embarrassingly slow operating speeds, waiting several mins at red lights. What's the point of RSD if they need to torture riders by crawling along to be cautious? Province / city are run by idiots

 

[6ixGod]

Lots of YouTube live streams for Line 6 opening. Enjoy.

 

[6ixGod]

 

[Bordercollie]

But trains are still stuck at red lights. That is not going to change.

I was thinking. Would it be possible to allow the LRT to have a green light before the advance green? This would save 25 seconds x 16 stops. The bus can go at the same time as the advance green so it has more signal priority than the LRT.

We spent how many billions of dollars for a train that travels slower than a bike. The bike even gets signal priority over the LRT.

 

[Monarch Butterfly]

The single-occupant SUV turning left MUST get priority ahead of the up to 400 people onboard the light rail train because it might be driven by a VIP. Especially if that SUV is driven by an Ontario MPP and is in government. Saw what happened with the speed cameras, have to do as your overseers proclaim.

 

[McGillicuddy]

It feels like 99% of passengers are having a lovely time riding the shiny new train, and UrbanToronto's there like this.