go nowhere for private motorized vehicles, you mean?
Actually, half streets and avenues that go nowhere more accurately describes our suburban areas. Downtown still has a grid pattern, so if you can't use 102 Street, 103 or 104 works.
Ambulances, police and fire can use the low floor LRT RoW to move around if needed. Busses either neve drove in those RoWs or were replaced by the LRT, I don't see your point here.
Most streets downtown are prioritized for private vehicles. In fact, most streets in the entire city are prioritized for them. We closed a handful for that kind of traffic, or reduced their volume, but the sense of entitlement in thinking that cars > everything else is baffling.
No, you just need to get over the fact that your mode of transportation no longer holds absolute priority over all others.
There are very few streets that are not prioritized for automobiles.
It's amazing that we've only taken some teeny tiny baby steps towards making transportation modes more equitable, yet people somehow mistake it as oppression
It is kinda of the same logic we have heard from big business owners for well over a century. They feel "oppressed" and "mistreated" when people who they see as less important start receiving any sort of improved treatment (not even equitable, just some improvement). Whenever I hear arguments saying that "they're taking away our rights to own vehicles" kind of bs, it feels the same as "how are we going to operate of children can't work factories" or "we're all gonna go under if employees can only work X hours a week/day", or "we'll be broke if we have to pay a minimum wage"... It is the same logic, just different circumstances.
That beautiful street facing infill... Who needs windows!
Is there a reason why it’s going so slow? There is no way it was designed to go 20 km/h along the whole alignment
From what I've read, apparently both this and Eglinton have conditional signal priority. The LRT line has full signal priority built in, it's just not enabled.