ADob said:
Honestly how is it that the European cities and North American cities that have low floor LRTs or trams can manage this but we cannot? How? I am stumped.
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They have years and years of it being in use. This is fairly new...to us Edmontonians.

Not excusing the bad drivers, just saying some people take time to adapt.
 
From the bunker:
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It will be so nice to see construction happening to be able to connect the current value line with the West Valley Line. As always I really do hope that the construction at any intersection that is remaining, especially very busy intersections that might be left to be completed, will be done in the expedited way that they did intersections this past year. I wonder if sections of the eastbound roadway will be opened in this next month or so on 104th Avenue?
 
Saw a car stop an entire full double loaded Valley Line train speeding east from Churchill station the other day when it tried to drive down the tracks to short-cut around a red light. My favourite part was when the car driver honked aggressively at the train, as if it was the train that was in the way.

Le sigh.
 
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thommyjo said:
I think the compromise of the valley line is that we want a tram centrally, and an LRT/light metro in the suburbs. I wonder if the compromise is doing crossing arms in the suburbs? And if that increases speeds, awesome. But keeping the central areas without arms feels important too.
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The ION LRT in Kitchener-Waterloo is crossing gate-free in the central area but outside the downtown it has crossing arms. That system uses the identical LRVs as the Valley Line SE.

Some of the lines on Portland's MAX are the same: no gates downtown, crossing gates at major intersections in outlying areas.
 
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