allabootmatt
Senior Member
Here (in Oxford) it was about 5cm--enough to convince me to take the bus instead of my bike, but otherwise life went on...
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Now that the DRL is back on the table, I wonder if Transit City will get modified or what the best way it can be changed to incorporate the DRL's added capabilities and capacities.
Could the DRL be an LRT? That way, the entire Don Mills line can go south towards downtown.
I think even Steve Munro has said that the projected demand necessitates it be subway and not LRT.
like this ??Well, parts of the TC should definitely be reconsidered in light of a DRL (though i'm still suspicious the DRL is actually "back on the table") such as the Don Mills line. As Steve Munro has pointed out, the Don Mills line from a bit south of Eglinton to Pape will have to be subway grade LRT. It would make more sense to scrap the portion of the Don Mills LRT south of Eglinton and build it as subway.
From there, I can't help but feel the "subway grade LRT" portion of the Eglinton Line (Leaside-Weston) might as well be subway, for mostly the same reasons. Negligible cost differences and strong networking possibilities. And from there, the Jane LRT, through it's "subway grade LRT" segments, might as well be done as subway to Dundas West. The current plans have a 30km 'loop' of grade separated transit in these 4 projects. It makes no sense to have the two halves of the route as incompatible modes, and there should be no significant cost difference between building 30km of subway and 15km of subway and 15km of underground streetcar.
Let's not be too hard on the English. It's quite pointless to waste money being regularly prepared for a once in a decade or two occurrence. The comments about their snow handling capabilities are also quite hypocritical when one considers what impact a foot of snow would have on Vancouver or Toronto. It may not be life threatening in a Canadian city but it would not be business as usual either. If we got walloped proportionally, we'd probably call in the Army again.
The only place that does strike me as one that should have been better prepared is Heathrow. Airlines pay big bucks for snow and ice control (SNIC). They must seriously be peeved at Heathrow's services.
Let's not be too hard on the English. It's quite pointless to waste money being regularly prepared for a once in a decade or two occurrence. The comments about their snow handling capabilities are also quite hypocritical when one considers what impact a foot of snow would have on Vancouver or Toronto. It may not be life threatening in a Canadian city but it would not be business as usual either. If we got walloped proportionally, we'd probably call in the Army again.
The only place that does strike me as one that should have been better prepared is Heathrow. Airlines pay big bucks for snow and ice control (SNIC). They must seriously be peeved at Heathrow's services.
-Double-ended vehicles - no loops
-POP, or a ticket booth at the station
-Stops spaced farther apart
-Traffic signal priority
-Headway-based operation would also help immensely, with the "next vehicle signs"
-Obviously has its own lanes
-Preferably no left turns anywhere on the street it's running on, but there's a way around that (*cough cough* transit signal priority)