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Both the dedicated ROWs on Spadina and St. Clair were recently closed for months, and they weren't doing full-scale track replacement (or much in the way of track replacement at all, as far as I could see walking alongside).
A bit harsh! This config allows for a 50% increase in capacity without any construction work at the stations. Simply add a 3rd car to the otherwise 2-car train.
At that point it might as well go one more stop (2.5 km) to Viscount station.
Spadina was closed because of work at the station right? But not necessarily because the track was bad
Among other maintenance projects.
The signaling system is vehicle agnostic. It's all hardware modules that are plugged into various equipment racks in the vehicle. The integration with the train control system software is the equivalent of programming hardware driver software for your computer. It's all about programming software that tells the train control system how to interpret the inputs from the signaling system modules and what to do when it receives those inputs (e.g. how to respond to a change in signal-permitted speed and how much deceleration/acceleration force is appropriate, how to handle the changeover from ATC-enabled to ATP-only, and how to manage driver vigilance checks, etc.) All that is immensely complicated code to perfect, but a lot of the code around that is reusable in other vehicles by swapping out the vehicle-specific system calls and APIs).
I don't think left turns should have been allowed anywhere on the above ground part of the Crosstown. Cars turning left will delay the trains/trams and encourage the city to give signal preference to vehicular traffic in order to clear the backlog of cars waiting to turn. Instead all cars should be forced to either go straight or turn right. Just like at Kingston Rd. and Midland, where if you're EB on Kingston and want to go north onto Midland you must first turn right Kelsonia Ave. and then onto Midland so that you cross Kington Rd. directly, see map https://maps.app.goo.gl/FrNWKjMeVtuQLh2q8
I wouldn't be against closing a few more left turns (Hakimi, Sinnott, Rosemount, Ionview) and leaving only the big ones open for lefts, but Kennedy to Wynford is a long distance to ban all left turns, and that would probably cause lots of crashes and/or traffic on streets not designed to handle them.
In my idea you can still turn left onto Eglinton east or westbound, and you can still go proceed NB from EB (or SB from WB) Eglinton at all the intersections between Kennedy and Wynford, only that you must turn right first onto a (intentionally designed) side road, from where you can make your left turn without disrupting cross traffic and trains on Eglinton.
Keep in mind though eastbound and westbound trains will not always arrive at the same time to an intersection.
Without any specific knowledge, I'd think that means trial running has finally started.
Screens have been live for a while now (past couple months actually). Sometimes they are accurate, other times they arent and depict times where vehicles dont actually arrive at the stop.
