07-11-2023, 12:18 AM
(07-10-2023, 02:11 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: 3) The side running segments, the trains go extremely slowly here, often 30km/h. This is because of the safety risk to pedestrians who are nearby. FWIW I would trade some low impact fencing (or shrubbery) here in order to improve the margins of safety so that the trains can go faster on these segments...of course that would take some space, which we should take from drivers...except that ship has sailed.
If this is OK:
https://goo.gl/maps/N8kVSHrAXLD4NrADA
… then there is no reason for an LRT limit below maybe 65km/h immediately adjacent to a sidewalk. An LRT lane has vehicles driven by trained operators at the specified speed that do not deviate from their planned path and come once every few minutes; a regular traffic lane has vehicles driven by whatever random idiots passed a driving test at whatever speed they feel like that occasionally mount the curb and come several per minute.
Now of course the example I gave is not OK, but I don’t think it’s that unreasonable to expect our transportation engineers to show some sign of consistency.