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For mid block no left turn intersections, I am baffled that they would have a road across the track in the first place. Perhaps blocking these with bollards would be a possible solution? I mean it's not like there is even a question of motorists to placate at locations like that.
It’s also assuming linear progress (at least I think it is). A lot of projects don’t tend to have this? But I could be wrong - maybe linear progress the case in construction and other physical projects.
I'm having problems thinking of a no left-turn regular intersection along there. Is there an example where cars are doing this?
Vic Park west to south and Credit Union Road west to south are both no left's
I don't buy it. Maybe over-capacity was an exaggeration from my disdain of this whole bungled project, but with 35,000+ proposed new residential dwellings along a 2 kilometre stretch from Victoria park to Birchmont, coupled with the redundant stops and a lack of true signal priority, I expect the eastern portion of the line to be near, or at capacity very quickly once all development is finished. Also Steeles and Bathurst is a very poor comparison here in my opinion. Would hardly call 25-30 buildings around 10-16 storeys tall "packed with high rises", especially when being compared to golden miles proposed development of more than 75 35+ storey towers. That 2 kilometre stretch is going to be just as dense as North York. But I'm not gonna argue about this any longer. The whole under capacity/over capacity argument is just beating a dead horse at this point. We'll really just have to wait and see the reality of the matter once it opens.
Thanks.
Is there an LRT line being built in the city that won't reach capacity fairly quickly after opening? Maybe Finch?
That seems unlikely to me. The 2031 AM peak ridership per direction per rider was only modelled to be 3,000 at Victoria Park. And that did account for densification. With 600 on a train, that's a train every 12 minutes. Even if you assume the capacity on the surface sections is only every 4 minutes, that's 15 trains an hour - capacity of 9,000. Probably higher, as I think you can both run a train every 4 minutes, and with more than 500 people.
No there isn't.
Which mathematically would reduce demand, and increase capacity.
Reducing speed does reduce capacity. If a train doubles its average speed then it can make a trip twice as often, doubling its capacity. That's an oversimplified example but the principle applies in the real world. An on-street LRT that doesn't have to wait at red lights will get to the end of the line faster and will be able to start coming back sooner, increasing the number of people it can carry in a day. The subway and GO trains have so much capacity not only because of the size of the trains, but also because they're fast.
C train does stop at red lights in the downtown core, it’s a major flaw in their system. If I recall it was planned to eventually become a tunneled section when the lrt was originally conceived. But as with most pre-metro systems, the upgrade to full grade separation never really happens.
For vehicle. The constraint is the line, not a given vehicle. The situation you describe is simply mitigated by adding additional vehicles.
