05-03-2022, 09:24 PM
(05-03-2022, 07:45 PM)Bytor Wrote: Frankly, given the Region's known hostility to pedestrian and cycle traffic in engineering designs of intersections, bike lanes and crosswalks, plus an unwillingness to do the necessary and obvious things to grow bus ridership, and combine that with sever ION operation head-scratchers, like why does the LRT have to pull away from Queen Station only to stop and wait for the light to change instead of having the light change synchronised to it can just leave and go through right away, I don't see the Region setting shorter headways even If and when stage 2 is built.
Yeah that drives me crazy. It does it in a few other places as well at times. This morning I was going northbound and as we pulled out of Frederick Station, we moved for about 3 seconds then stopped while the traffic moving on Weber went by. I believe it happens around Borden Station as well (though I'm not sure if this is all the time, I don't pay enough attention), both north and southbound. That a rapid transit system serving 630k people legitimately has to stop at red lights and does not have true signal priority that can let it roll through intersections without delay is ridiculous.