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PL1 said:
Wild that people used to be able to get personal details from license plates!
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This should read licence plates. :)

Perhaps if they could reinstate it, then people wouldn't drive as badly as they do now.

I remember when they used to staple the polling list to the phone poles! I never realised how Italian the one neighbourhood I lived in was, until I saw that.
 
AHK said:
Regarding license plate / vehicle registration data - it had previously not been considered to be personal protected information. I believe there was a $5 service charge for every license plate query. The incident which triggered the change took place in Ottawa. A male driver saw an attractive woman in the car next to him at a traffic light, asked her name, which she declined to provide. He noted her license plate, paid the query fee and got her personal information, and used it to contact her. She complained to the provincial government.
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For what possible reason was this information publicly accessible to begin with!? That is absolutely nuts.
 
T3G said:
For what possible reason was this information publicly accessible to begin with!? That is absolutely nuts.
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Different times, that's all. The City Directory and Phone Book were also available and had just about everybody in them, often listing marital status and data such as occupation and homeowner/renter.

How many people want their cell phone number in a phone book today?

- Paul
 
Bojaxs said:
I'm finding it really underwhelming how slow these trains are moving. I seriously hope these are just testing speed. These don't look anywhere as fast as the C-Trains in Calgary.
https://twitter.com/x/status/1789504532239573117

EDIT: I'm not Ramsey Kilani. I just agree with his sentiment.
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It's almost definitely going to run slowly, based on the test videos. My guess is that it'll be run like the streetcar, and even with the ROW, the operator will still randomly hit the brakes every so often lest the LRT exceed 22 km/h.
 
That would be the average speed with all the traffic lights and dwell time considered.

Also, I see some quotes with a 28 km/h avg speed, not sure what it is now. Finch West might have an average speed of 20-21 km.
 
chrisw said:
That would be the average speed with all the traffic lights and dwell time considered.

Also, I see some quotes with a 28 km/h avg speed, not sure what it is now. Finch West might have an average speed of 20-21 km.
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I'm not sure I'm believing what I'm reading. The posted speed limit for these streets is between 50-60km/h. But you're telling me none of these trains will exceed 30km/h? Is that correct or am I misreading something?
 
They are, after all, testing.... maybe the point of the exercise is simply the number of vehicles on a controlled headway rather than full speed operation?

When I have been out that way, I have certainly observed single tramsets running at respectable speeds.

Maybe there is more to come.

- Paul
 
felix123 said:
It's almost definitely going to run slowly, based on the test videos. My guess is that it'll be run like the streetcar, and even with the ROW, the operator will still randomly hit the brakes every so often lest the LRT exceed 22 km/h.
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Looks a lot faster than 22 km/hr in that video above. I doubt the average would even be as low as 22 km/hr between Leslie and Kennedy. And probably similar to the subway over the whole line, hitting the low 30s.
 
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