[Amare]

But isn't the context piece that the trip will be 60% faster than today's status quo? Getting back to something I posted earlier, I don't see why the situation can't be improved if in the first few months of operation they can determine giving more priority would improve the situation. Of course it would take advocacy and probably local City Councillors to push City staff to allow for it. I also don't see why a Councillor couldn't introduce a motion between now and opening day to change the situation.

Yes the trip times will be 60% faster compared to bus travel that we have along the corridor. That in itself is a huge benefit, no one is disputing that.

The problem we're all raising is that the city is refusing to activite transit priority, that would actuallly make that 60% figure attainable. Not implementing signal priority will surely that reduce that figure by a fairy significant margin. There's nothing stopping the city from implenting it after the LRT opened, but with the city thinks: "if it ain't broke, why fix it" mentality would ensue, ultimately ensuring that transit priority would never be implemented in any of our lifetimes.

 

[W. K. Lis]

The Queensway could have been a "rapid transit line" by now, IF they had put in "real" transit priority AND transit specific traffic signals. Unfortunately, they STILL require the 100+ passengers in the streetcars to go slow through the intersections, or wait while the 3 or 4 single-occupant motor vehicles to make their left turns ahead of them. When the right-of-way was originally built in the 1950's, they had nearside stops at the traffic lights. Today, they have farside stop, but they end up waiting about a minute or more until they get a green light to move to the other side at the intersections.

 

[Allandale25]

Yes the trip times will be 60% faster compared to bus travel that we have along the corridor. That in itself is a huge benefit, no one is disputing that.

The problem we're all raising is that the city is refusing to activite transit priority, that would actually make that 60% figure attainable. Not implementing signal priority will surely that reduce that figure by a fairy significant margin. There's nothing stopping the city from implenting it after the LRT opened, but with the city thinks: "if it ain't broke, why fix it" mentality would ensue, ultimately ensuring that transit priority would never be implemented in any of our lifetimes.

I wonder if one of the pro-Transit City/LRT Councillors, like Perks, Carroll (any others left), or some who battled Ford (Layton, Cressy, Matlow), will introduce a motion to ask for a staff report on this or direct staff to give more priority.

 

[drum118]

April 25
Lot more up on site

 

[daptive]

I really shouldn't judge before it's done, and I like to stay positive... but this shelter looks identical to the PetroCanada behind it.

 

[Coolstar]

April 25
Lot more up on site

I see Metrolinx still hasn't settled the lawsuits with the MBTA, TransLink and Pittsburgh. Still no T logo yet.

 

[drum118]

I see Metrolinx still hasn't settled the lawsuits with the MBTA, TransLink and Pittsburgh. Still no T logo yet.

I have seen a number of bus stops with the T at the top, but not in a position to get a shot of them.

Metrolinx only knows how to copy someone else work and can't think outside the box

 

[drum118]

I really shouldn't judge before it's done, and I like to stay positive... but this shelter looks identical to the PetroCanada behind it.

LOL..............That funny, as I never noticed when I was shooting the site and goes in hand to my comment above this posting

 

[crs1026]

I really shouldn't judge before it's done, and I like to stay positive... but this shelter looks identical to the PetroCanada behind it.

Just great.... with this city’s luck we will have motorists getting stuck on the tracks after they mistake the shelter for the gas pumps...

Queens Quay all over again ;-)

- Paul

 

[Voltz]

Took some photos yesterday around Don Mills & Eglinton



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From this picture it looks like the outside area of the bus platform is fairly narrow, barely a few feet from the curb to the wall, I can see the area getting crowded.

 

[Streety McCarface]

Yes the trip times will be 60% faster compared to bus travel that we have along the corridor. That in itself is a huge benefit, no one is disputing that.

60% faster across the entire corridor is for everything, including the underground section — the section where the road is narrowest, the section where most passengers use the Eglinton routes, the section with the most traffic congestion, the section with all the lights, and the section that will run with advanced signaling.

If the average speed of a bus in this city (including stops and traffic) is 15 km/h, then a 60% increase equates to a 24 km/h average speed — 4 km/h less than what they claimed initially. By way of comparison, Line 2 is scheduled to have average speeds of 32 km/h, and it has stop spacing very similar to that of the crosstown. If we go by actual potential runtimes, then the average speed is 35-36 km/h. So how is it that a line with better signaling and less ridership (the crosstown) be 33% slower?

If we assume the underground section (>11.5 km of 19 km) has the same train speeds as line 2 (32 km/h), then that means that the surface section would have an average speed of 11.75 km/h — That's abysmal. It's even worse than the bus despite having fewer stops than the bus.

 

[Richard White]

April 25
Lot more up on site

The whole eastern end is coming along remarkably well. I live in the east end and can finally see this nearing completion. I mentioned to my folks that we are likely to see track installation completed by the end of the summer.

 

[sixrings]

This surface section construction seems to go pretty fast. But let's go underground in the West instead and finish it by 2040

 

[sche]

April 25
Lot more up on site

This is a really minor detail, but I really hate how none of the signage matches the rest of the system. Like, why are there arrows on all the stations in the strip maps? Why is the font different? Why are we using chevrons instead of arrows for the direction of the trains? Can ML seriously not make the line fit in with everything that already exists and have some design consistency? It doesn’t even match GO’s maps.

 

[Coolstar]

This surface section construction seems to go pretty fast. But let's go underground in the West instead and finish it by 2040

But now that the crosstown doesn't have signal priority it might be better off grade-separated in the west.