[rbt]

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.

They're the exact same people who rolled out and monitor (generally favourably) the King pilot, which is not a TTC project, so it's hard to argue they're strictly pro-car and anti-streetcar.

 

[Amare]

They're the exact same people who rolled out and monitor (generally favourably) the King pilot, which is not a TTC project, so it's hard to argue they're strictly pro-car and anti-streetcar.

Who Toronto Transportation Services? They didnt roll it out, it was City Planning that did. However, they do monitor the signals and they have to abide by the parameters of the pilot project.

In other words, they are being forced (either willingly or unwillingly) to make the signal timing as friendly as possible for streetcars.

 

[TransitBart]

That's gonna be funny to see when the ION opens, and we see automobile gods everyone poop their pants

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

 

[thettctransitfanatic]

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

Crap. Now, people it should be obvious I was having a sacrastic moment here.

 

[John Bisan]

That would be the concourse level visible in the photo, the tunnels would be under the concrete.

Where’s the tunnels in this picture??

that's the station main entrance not the station box, that's outside Eglinton (next to Mac.) the didn't start excavating for section box yet

 

[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.