Towered
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Probably after the construction on the Dundas Street bridge over the Humber River is completed first.
It's been finished for a few weeks now.
Probably after the construction on the Dundas Street bridge over the Humber River is completed first.
I give it a ""C"" as noted above, but poor designing and spacing of poles play a big part both at the intersections. Then having 2 too many stops does not help.
Not having the Oakwood Loop in place and the screw up at Gunns puts it at ""D"".
A D grade? Really?
I think when the original poster asked for a grade he was talking about the operation of the line, not the co-ordination of construction or necessarily even the design of the avenue.
I still believe the TTC should be managing these lines on headways rather that schedules.
My only complaint is with the lack of signal priority. All of the bunching, speed, and frequency issues come back to this. People seem to be suggesting there is some priority in use, but I haven't found that to be the case at all. I'm pretty sure the strings of greens you've coasted through were by pure coincidence. Going to all the trouble and expense of building a ROW and not providing full signal management is unacceptable. This is not Spadina, there are no intersecting high-capacity routes that would be interrupted here. There is no excuse.
Apart from that I have no complaints whatsoever.
I didn't really use the line pre-ROW...for those giving the new operation a failing grade, how do you feel it compares to the old 512?
Spring 2010 according to the city's website, probably around late March-April? The city has decided not to continue construction into the winter as concrete poured in the winter deteriorates faster. The only thing really left to construct is Gunns loop. They should have Oakwood loop open around the same time, I wouldn't see why not.
Having it's own set of raised tracks does not a right of way make.
If you want to get technical about it, that's exactly what makes something a right-of-way.
But I'll toss in my agreement that there are too many stops, too many intersections, and there should be some form of signal priority.
But I agree with you that it is completely unacceptable for any ROWs to be in operation without full signal priority.