(05-03-2021, 05:24 PM)tomh009 Wrote:(05-03-2021, 04:16 PM)ac3r Wrote: That all means nothing when the LRT makes turns at a snails pace. There's almost no point along the network that it manages to make it 800 meters before it has to slow down for something - a pedestrian crossing, a street, a turn or stop at a red light like it's a car (lol). It was a great project if you're a developer looking to cash in on selling condos "near the LRT" but that's about it. It takes me more time to use the LRT than the route 8 bus to get from Fairway Sation/Hidden Valley to downtown. It's rapid transit in concept, but in execution it's a joke.
The point is you can speed it up by adjusting the rules, or by tunneling, or by elevating it. Two of those three will cost hundreds of millions. The third one does not.
Yeah, exactly. But a baby can crawl faster than the LRT takes to move most of the route. It was built to make developers and the region rich, not actually move people around at rapid speeds, lessen traffic congestion, benefit the environment etc...lol. They are selling the naming rights to the main train station for our region ffs because they don't have the money to justify this shit to the greater public. It's got to be the worst rapid transit system in all of North America built in the last 20 years, all things considered, unless you're a condo developer. I know most of this forum disagrees with me since you like to see big buildings, bike lanes and such stuff, but that's really the anthesis of urban planning.