06-18-2020, 07:27 PM
(06-17-2020, 10:02 AM)midriser Wrote:(06-17-2020, 08:08 AM)ert86 Wrote: Was there am accident that caused a backup up or were they testing 8min headways yesterday. I saw one downtown go by south with another due in 8, I barely missed that one but there were two more after that both 8 min apart.
According to GRT's twitter account they were testing ATP and the previously planned 8 minute headways. Judging by the fact that you were seeing 8 minute gaps, it seems at least the headway part was going ok.
https://twitter.com/grt_row/status/12725...19360?s=21
This would be the second time ATP has been tested during revenue operations, a few weeks ago was the first. There's a reply to the above tweet from a user who has previously identified himself as an LRV operator, and according to him the last test didn't go very well. Hopefully they were more successful this time, as it has been a long wait to get ATP up and running. Four days shy of one year in operation and LRVs are still limited to 50 km/h!
I have to say...the entire launch of light rail transit in Waterloo Region was pretty bad. Businesses lost money from construction, the trains were years late, ATP is nowhere to be seen anytime soon, people kept crashing into the vehicles because we ran it like a streetcar in the downtown/uptowns. It is not as bad as the LRT in Ottawa, where the malfunctions lead to massive logistical failures and thousands of people unable to get anywhere (granted, Ottawa has nearly 1'000'000 people), but the roll-out of everything was a bit messy.