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[ijmorlan]

Yeah, exactly. But a baby can crawl faster than the LRT takes to move most of the route. It was built to make developers and the region rich, not actually move people around at rapid speeds, lessen traffic congestion, benefit the environment etc...lol. They are selling the naming rights to the main train station for our region ffs because they don't have the money to justify this shit to the greater public. It's got to be the worst rapid transit system in all of North America built in the last 20 years, all things considered, unless you're a condo developer. I know most of this forum disagrees with me since you like to see big buildings, bike lanes and such stuff, but that's really the anthesis of urban planning.

There are plenty of US LRT and streetcar projects that are less well-conceived than ours. Closer to home, the Sheppard subway and the Vaughan subway extension in and near Toronto (already built), not to mention the upcoming Scarborough subway extension and burial of the west extension of the Eglinton LRT, are all much worse value for the money and more poorly considered than Ion.

It is true that the LRT does not move as fast as it should. In particular, it is slower than one would expect given the design as built. I don’t know what can be done about this: are they following some inflexible rules/regulations, or do they just need to get rid of somebody paranoid from management, or something else?

i don’t know what liking big buildings and bike lanes has to do with this. Good urban planning can involve big buildings, small buildings, and everything in between; and good urban planning definitely involves good bike infrastructure. Maybe you could say that good urban planning involves well planned transit? But Ion for the most part is that, with some exceptions; the big issue of excessively slow speeds is primarily an operational problem.