(10-19-2018, 01:50 PM)Pheidippides Wrote: I’m not sure if the heavy rail standards apply to LRT at all or to LRT on heavy rail track, but the standards are here:
https://www.tc.gcca/media/documents/rail...df#page=46
It seems a bit complicated.
Thanks for hunting all of that info down for us!
(10-19-2018, 01:50 PM)Pheidippides Wrote: I think that recent video of 511 at Hayward showed the arms and lights activated a good 1min 15sec beforehand, but hopefully that gets tightened up; imagine a 1min plus of forewarning every 4min.
I would say that anything observed with 511 (or even within it's vicinity, i.e. as another LRV goes past in the opposite direction) doesn't count right now as they are only just in the early stages of testing the integration of its 'specialized equipment' with the rest of the system. From what I've heard on the radio there are signal crews and flaggers working the crossings wherever 511's been out.
What you see with 505 to 509 in the absence of 511 would be more representative of the way the crossings are tuned right now.
...K