12-22-2021, 04:40 PM
(12-22-2021, 03:36 PM)plam Wrote: I was riding around the LRT today and looking at my GPS to tell the speed again. The track design between Mill and Block Line is really terrible. I should time how long it takes to go through 15km/h section. Going north, heading into Mill, the train can't even quite reach 70km/h before it has to slow down again for the stop. Unfortunately, I think that the solution right there involves money and land expropriation (or road narrowing), not more realistic safety standards.
The other thing is that I was having a bad time with it being cold outside and my fingers therefore being cold and trying to operate the easyGO recharging machine.
The Traynor crossing seems fine, though it really was a production to get it done.
Having to shift to Courtland through Hayward is an issue of property acquisition.
The issue of the insane 400m 15 km/h straightaway leading up to Hayward is an issue of engineering insanity that nobody will talk about.
Like, a *"speed up loop" is as believable an explanation as any.
*speed up loop being a trick where programmers inserted a loop that did nothing but wasted time in a program, so later they could remove it and "improve" the performance of the software.