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Bordercollie said:
That's not true. It allows buses to travel without being impeded by traffic or traffic lights. Just because people don't park to use the system doesn't mean it's useless.
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Notice I mentioned for speed they’re great but for adding passengers I’d call them a dismal failure.

The nearby Dixie GO station is packed to the last row so people are happy to get out of their cars if trips are faster and transfers are minimized!
 
6ixGod said:
It does not need to take four months. That’s the problem: LRT defenders have completely normalised mediocrity.

“Oh, the entire line is shut down because of snow? That’s fine, it’s not as if cold weather is a known condition here.”
“Oh, the trains are running at a crawl? No problem, wouldn’t want the LRT getting a speeding ticket.”
“Oh, another speed restriction? Safety first. The priority is clearly protecting the rails from the trains.”
“Oh, signal issues again? Understandable. We only had a decade to plan this.”
“Oh, testing takes months? Of course. This is cutting-edge 19th-century technology.”
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You're reminding me of someone I know. He reads minds, and knows exactly what every car driver or truck driver or cyclist or pedestrian or politician in Toronto thinks, word for word. And it's always something nobody would ever say. :)
 
People forget that during the Boxing Day snowstorm, there were 200+ automobile collisions just in Toronto from the snow. Collisions that were "reported", not counted the unreported ones.
 
6ixGod said:
It does not need to take four months. That’s the problem: LRT defenders have completely normalised mediocrity.

“Oh, the entire line is shut down because of snow? That’s fine, it’s not as if cold weather is a known condition here.”
“Oh, the trains are running at a crawl? No problem, wouldn’t want the LRT getting a speeding ticket.”
“Oh, another speed restriction? Safety first. The priority is clearly protecting the rails from the trains.”
“Oh, signal issues again? Understandable. We only had a decade to plan this.”
“Oh, testing takes months? Of course. This is cutting-edge 19th-century technology.”
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Literally no one on here has ever written ANYTHING that remotely resembles this.

It is a mystery to me that you are able to get away with so much trolling. Go away.
 
T3G said:
What is the basis for declaring the Mississauga transitway to be a success? Sure, it's useful as a bypass, but as far as I can tell that's where it ends.

The speeds are artificially low (the buses on the part in Mississauga definitely don't come anywhere close to reaching their top speeds, not with the inane amount of schedule padding, and especially on the Metrolinx owned section, where they so rigidly demand that the 20 km/h speed limit be followed in the area around Renforth station that the TTC actually swapped the division that dispatches the 112 so they could send out buses with geoblocked speed limiters on them, which shows that low speeds are a product of living in a nanny state and not an inherent feature of the mode of transit), most of the stations are located in the middle of nowhere and are thus total ghost towns (especially Dixie, Cawthra, Tomken, and Central Parkway), even the stations that are near something useful are still far enough away that getting to them is a pain in the ass, exiting the transitway via a left turn, thanks to a lack of TSP, takes just as long as it does on the Finch LRT, and the costs of the project, by the end, more than doubled, proving that cost overruns are not a feature of LRT as some people on here are claiming.

I would think the lesson here is that Ontarians just really, really suck at transit, no matter the mode.

N.B. Viva and ZUM also suck.
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OK I have insight on mississauga transit way as I work along the line. I would say as a frequent user it is a success. Buses could run more frequent but Buses are packed. Stations get decent usage from people working in nearby employment areas, buses usually fly at 50 km per hour or sometimes faster. That only section that is slow is renforth station mostly from the amount of buses that pull in and out of the station. I would say that it could be improved by adding bus routes the feed into transitway, but overall it is successful.
 
FW36 said:
OK I have insight on mississauga transit way as I work along the line. I would say as a frequent user it is a success. Buses could run more frequent but Buses are packed. Stations get decent usage from people working in nearby employment areas, buses usually fly at 50 km per hour or sometimes faster. That only section that is slow is renforth station mostly from the amount of buses that pull in and out of the station. I would say that it could be improved by adding bus routes the feed into transitway, but overall it is successful.
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It's fine until you experience other cities Transitway such as Ottawa and Brisbane. The busways in those cities absolutely flew at like 80 or even 90km/h between stops, not the 50km/h in Mississauga. As much as I didn't want to say it, what Mississauga got was basically the "Ottawa Transitway at Home"
 
UntitledCyclist said:
I don't know if this is your YouTube, but "Transmania" is a quite a channel name... maybe I'll get a tuque!
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I wonder why Urban Toronto doesn't have a merch page. If a bunch of us were to turn up at a ribbon cutting event, we'd be able to spot each other. It could turn into a party!
(Then again, it could also turn into a brawl...)
 
A 6264 said:
I wonder why Urban Toronto doesn't have a merch page. If a bunch of us were to turn up at a ribbon cutting event, we'd be able to spot each other. It could turn into a party!
(Then again, it could also turn into a brawl...)
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It'll most likely descend into fighting between the pro-LRT crowd, and the pro-subway crowd.
 
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