(09-06-2021, 12:45 PM)ijmorlan Wrote: That being said, it’s OK if a certain amount of traffic has to wait for a bus once in a while. If they want to reduce delays to non-transit traffic, they should fix some of the signals on the LRT system where pedestrian and/or motor traffic is held even when there is no conflict with the LRT (King/Conestogo, King/Northfield, Erb/Caroline, King/Allen, King/Moore, King/Francis, Charles/Victoria, Charles/Benton, Duke/Frederick, Charles/Borden, Charles/Ottawa, Ottawa/Mill; wow, more than I realized when I started typing this). It’s just a pure deadweight loss, with no benefit to transit whatsoever.
This would be helpful. It drives me crazy when I'm on the LRT and it stops for absolutely no reason. It's like...did you people even try? It's a mess.
They still haven't got the train to speed up at Hayward Ave either, even though they said at some point that they think they could make some adjustments to speed it up. The thing slows down to something like 15 to 5 km/h to make those turns and it holds up traffic on Hayward Ave for at least 2+ minutes straight. I don't really get why...it can't be the grade of the hill because it's not that steep. The turns are sharp, but the LRV should be able to make them at a faster speed than that. Like, Phase 2 has elevated sections with much steeper grades and the train will easily be able to ride on them without slowing down so much.
Looks like we derailed the thread a bit however.