3 hours ago
(02-25-2026, 10:49 PM)plam Wrote:(02-25-2026, 09:51 PM)ijmorlan Wrote: Similarly in other areas the article confirms my suspicions that the system is being operated absurdly cautiously, the equivalent of setting a strict 40km/h speed limit on roads like Hespeler or Weber.And yet there is the 30km/h speed limit on residential roads. I actually agree with them, but also, yes, it does feel slow. (I was driving around campgrounds recently, though, and sometimes when they post 5km/h limits, that's just completely unreasonable.)
I think that the next step is for people to engage with their Regional Councillors about this article and get conversations going.
I don’t mind the 30km/h limit on residential streets. I’m talking about the kind of major road where that would make no sense. It makes even less sense for an LRT in the middle lanes of a wide road. The LRT obviously should have a maximum speed maybe 10km/h higher than whatever speed the rest of the traffic normally does. So if the limit is 50km/h, implying typical traffic speeds of 60km/h, that suggests the LRT should be limited to 70km/h.