drum118
Superstar
Shot before the grass was put down
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cplchanb
Senior Member
Big concern for that is long term viability with heavy traffic and buses. This is good for quiet neighbourhoods but not feasible long term for a major artery road like Eglinton. Guarantee there will be refurbs of those every 5 years due to heavy usage and buses forming depressions over time when they drive over them
W. K. Lis
Superstar
Use concrete instead of asphalt at crosswalks.
TheTigerMaster
Superstar
Obviously it's too early to make any proclamations about performance without signalling in place, but I must say that speed and performance does look very solid in this early stage of testing. It's nothing like the early days of ION testing, where LRVs were running very slow. It's plainly evident that this performance significantly better than the existing bus network.
Now we wait to see how the signal priority will perform. I wonder when we'll see testing of it.
EnviroTO
Senior Member
Yes, performance looks much better with an increased playback speed. It's all part of how Metrolinx is bringing faster transit options to the GTA.
crs1026
Superstar
^I have been replaying that video with an eye on the autos - it seems that the lrv keeps pace with the road vehicles, sometimes the lrv pulls ahead at lights but the traffic catches up at the next light. My impression is the overall velocity has potential, depending on the. dwell at stops and lights.
- Paul
- Paul
EnviroTO
Senior Member
At what timestamp? I feel like mid-block the cars are still whipping by when you would expect both to be at the same speed, there is one small stretch where it seems the vehicle guess the same speed but with the lane restrictions the cars are facing it is hard to know if that is congestion, and only when the light is unfavorable to the cars does it catch up and even then that only occurs rarely. This LRT may be able to go 60km/h but I don't feel this is showing that yet and if it is they need to put some speed traps here for the cars.
smallspy
Senior Member
Don't read too much into that video.
It was shot back at the end of May from one of the cars being moved from the offloading location to where they are being stored in the tunnels between Laird and Leslie. It was given a police escort to ensure that no one was going to try and turn left across it. The ROW signals were not activated as yet nor were the signals for the interlockings, although they've started activating those over the past week or so.
They still haven't released video from the few runs that they did run shortly after delivery, and they aren't likely to make any performance runs - testing everything, at full speed - anytime soon.
Dan
It was shot back at the end of May from one of the cars being moved from the offloading location to where they are being stored in the tunnels between Laird and Leslie. It was given a police escort to ensure that no one was going to try and turn left across it. The ROW signals were not activated as yet nor were the signals for the interlockings, although they've started activating those over the past week or so.
They still haven't released video from the few runs that they did run shortly after delivery, and they aren't likely to make any performance runs - testing everything, at full speed - anytime soon.
Dan
Northern Light
Superstar
I couldn't get photos, as I was driving............but crews were laying sod in the ROW yesterday between Warden and Birchmount. Lots of it.
I don't know if this is more testing, or if they've made up their minds, but they were doing a good 200M stretch anyways.
They had a watertruck driving by it spraying all the new grass down.
I don't know if this is more testing, or if they've made up their minds, but they were doing a good 200M stretch anyways.
They had a watertruck driving by it spraying all the new grass down.
sacred
Active Member
Still too much parkingToday, looking southwest at Black Creek Drive and Eglinton Avenue West...
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Proposed...
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Tuck
Active Member
A dozen reasons why its a bad idea, but I'd have loved for them to leave it that way.
W. K. Lis
Superstar
Northern Light
Superstar
The Toronto Botanical Garden is at Lawrence & Leslie. They should expand the gardens southward to the Sunnybrook Park stop at Leslie on Line 5.
See link.
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In respect of what most Botannical Gardens are known for, I don't think there's a case for that.
Wilket Creek Park, the area in question, is entirely natural but for the Bike Path.
I wouldn't want to see that become 'curated' gardens.
I'm all for expanding TBG, but the logical spot is the Church/school property to the south along Leslie; after which one could examine expansion on the Bridle Path side, though that's some seriously expensive real estate.