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RE: General Road and Highway Discussion - KevinL - 06-11-2024
Lane reductions are now in place on Ottawa, just west of Westmount. Not sure how far it reaches, likely to Fischer-Hallman.
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RE: General Road and Highway Discussion - ZEBuilder - 06-11-2024
(06-11-2024, 12:23 PM)KevinL Wrote: Lane reductions are now in place on Ottawa, just west of Westmount. Not sure how far it reaches, likely to Fischer-Hallman.
It goes all the way to Fischer-Hallman, there was also some lane restrictions through the Fischer-Hallman/Ottawa intersection yesterday.
RE: General Road and Highway Discussion - Acitta - 06-11-2024
"There's no reason [buses] need to be a thing of the past." — Eric Miller (@civmin). Why is it so hard to get around Ontario? Tonight on TVO at 8/11pm.
RE: General Road and Highway Discussion - plam - 06-11-2024
(06-11-2024, 07:59 PM)Acitta Wrote: "There's no reason [buses] need to be a thing of the past." — Eric Miller (@civmin). Why is it so hard to get around Ontario? Tonight on TVO at 8/11pm.
I certainly don't have the answer, and especially not for northern Ontario, but I certainly would prefer means of transport that are not buses for inter-city travel (which is the topic of this discussion).
RE: General Road and Highway Discussion - nms - 06-12-2024
Isn't GO Transit rolling out more bus routes beyond the edges of the rail network? Procurement takes time.
RE: General Road and Highway Discussion - bravado - 06-21-2024
For the transport nerds out there:
Region expands real-time data collection to all signalized intersections
The aim is to help guide how roads, transit, and pedestrian and cycling facilities will improve through 2041
https://www.cambridgetoday.ca/local-news/region-expands-real-time-data-collection-to-all-signalized-intersections-9117659
RE: General Road and Highway Discussion - nms - 06-22-2024
The monitoring devices are typically on poles that look like shepherd's hooks attached to a signal pole. A sign, "Traffic surveillance device" is also attached to the pole.
RE: General Road and Highway Discussion - cherrypark - 06-25-2024
Nice to see Miovision expanding its use locally. Inspiring company.
RE: General Road and Highway Discussion - ijmorlan - 06-25-2024
(06-22-2024, 08:40 AM)nms Wrote: The monitoring devices are typically on poles that look like shepherd's hooks attached to a signal pole. A sign, "Traffic surveillance device" is also attached to the pole.
What actually are they? They look exactly like cameras to my non-expert eye (but of course what I’m actually seeing is the outer dome which covers the device itself).
RE: General Road and Highway Discussion - bravado - 06-25-2024
Based on the press release it sounds like cameras that better detect different types of vehicles/road users to collect data like that - but not new timing or detection sensors for the signals themselves.
RE: General Road and Highway Discussion - taylortbb - 06-26-2024
Yes, they are cameras, feed into a computer vision system for automated counts. The emergence of cheap high quality computer vision systems has resulted in a lot of sensors now being implemented as a camera + computer vision. Just like happened with computers, specialized hardware is expensive, and using software + standardized hardware is much cheaper. They call them sensors to distinguish them from things that actually record visually useful video for surveillance.