05-04-2021, 12:14 PM
(05-04-2021, 11:54 AM)neonjoe Wrote: The only on road section along the route that is 60km/h is King North by Conestoga mall and Northfield. The distance is approx 1.3km so 2.6km/both ways.
2.6 mins if going the speed limit or 3.1 mins if going 50km/h its pretty insignificant.
Courtland I would consider off road but I do think it crawls far slower than 70km/h (or even 50km/h)
As was mentioned turns are very slow but I feel that the biggest time waste is the signal signal timing. I see the LRVs waiting for lights so often in the urban sections, specifically near stops. If this could be eliminated so that the schedule wasn't so conservative around them and there was true signal priority a fair bit could be cut off the trip time. They should be running it with a frequent schedule rather than trying to keep schedule adherence. If the vehicles were frequent enough they just would have to look at avoiding bunching rather than scheduled time adherence.
Yes, I'm not expecting this to save minutes here, but the idea that the train, in the middle of a road of traffic going 70-90km/h (with a limit of 60km/h) is restricted to 50km/h is the kind of idiotic insanity that our engineers have implemented.
Courtland it appears that there are physical problems that are justifying the absurdly low limit, and those are being corrected. The same is not true on Northfield, it's just a normal expectation that the LRT will be 20-40% slower than driving for no reason.
You are right that signal timing should be improved. AFAIK the trains only get priority when they are behind schedule, which is absurd.