05-04-2022, 12:11 AM
(05-03-2022, 09:24 PM)ac3r Wrote: 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.
King St. northbound at Allen also. Northbound road traffic typically (always?) gets the green before the LRT gets its signal, even if the LRT has completed its station stop.
Also, and this doesn’t currently affect LRT operations, but the excessive time during which certain crossing signals are activated is a reason or excuse not to increase frequency. I don’t see any reason why the system can’t operate on 5 minute headways, except that a few places like the corner of Erb and Caroline would not function under current safety paranoia operational practices. With improvements in crucial locations it should be able to run at even higher frequencies. After all, it’s not a problem for a road carrying many vehicles every minute to cross another road; so it shouldn’t be a problem for an LRT line carrying, say, just one vehicle every minute to cross a road.