[ack]

Not in doubt. The people in charge of the Traffic Lights here are VERY pro car and anti-streetcar. They do everything within their power to sabotage the signal priority here.

I wouldn't necessarily call them pro-car either, just that they have a very narrow view of what people expect from traffic lights. For example along the St. Clair line, if there's a car waiting to turn left into a side street, the lights invariably first give traffic from the side street a green, even if no one was requesting it, just in case someone shows up at the last moment, sees the main street getting a yellow and charges into the intersection "knowing" they'll get a green first.

 

[robmausser]

Did you mean crap or shit? I hope they are not 4 years old.

Yes when someone defecates in their pants its much more grown up and mature to call it shit instead of poop.

 

[Allandale25]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1100458489388908544

 

[thettctransitfanatic]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1100458489388908544

It's looking good

 

[Aplus23]

They said mining should be completed by late 2019

 

[reteequa]

Anyone think they would let a student down there to take photos for a project? if so who should I contact?

 

[TheTigerMaster]

Check out @CrosstownTO on Twitter. They have contact info there

 

[mrgrieves]

Ok so just visited ION, they had very much fully functioning signal priority. Are people here still in doubt?

what do you mean? the signals were prioritizing buses?

 

[Leo_Chan]

what do you mean? the signals were prioritizing buses?

They are currently testing the trains along the whole route, with drastically reduced frequencies of course, and I think @Reecemartin drove around and check out all the intersections where trains had gates and at regular intersections where signals stay green or change from red to green in prediction for them.

 

[KevinT]

what do you mean? the signals were prioritizing buses?

https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threa...-victoria-transit-terminal.19202/post-1419203

The train passed us in no time and I realized two very important things:

1. It did not radio for permission to proceed through the Cameron crossover, it just went.
2. It had sailed through every traffic light we observed on Ottawa and Charles without ever having to stop and wait.

If the LRV hadn't done a quick stop/go at each station we'd never have been able to keep up to it by car, its luck with the lights remained uncanny.

 

[Allandale25]

https://www.facebook.com/122390824522148/posts/2094896703938207

 

[Aplus23]

So what stations to what stations currently have track work done ?

 

[smallspy]

So what stations to what stations currently have track work done ?

Very few. Tracks are installed at Mount Dennis Station - that can be seen from the road alongside - but it hasn't been tied in to the mainline tracks to the east. Keelesdale, Caledonia and Fairbank should all be fairly far along structurally, and may have rails installed through them. But there's been no photo evidence of this, so I couldn't say if they have actually been installed yet.

Oakwood is still a muddy cavern, and so it will be some time before it will be ready for rails to be installed.

Dan

 

[Kyle Campbell]

Random thought that had popped into my head that I was wondering. Will the Crosstown have the doors open automatically at stations like the subway, or will it be button operated like Calgary, Edmonton, and Ottawa?

I know people weren't thrilled in Toronto when they tried it on the new streetcars, but it's normal elsewhere.

 

[robmausser]

Random thought that had popped into my head that I was wondering. Will the Crosstown have the doors open automatically at stations like the subway, or will it be button operated like Calgary, Edmonton, and Ottawa?

I know people weren't thrilled in Toronto when they tried it on the new streetcars, but it's normal elsewhere.

The LRT reports from what feels like .... oh wait it is over 10 years ago... stated that the stops would operate like subway stops. The LRTs will stop even if not requested to and all doors will open.