05-13-2021, 01:50 PM
(05-13-2021, 11:08 AM)Bytor Wrote: I would echo people who want better signal integration/priority.
For example, when the trams pull away from the stations, it's shouldn't just be a few feet and then to wait for the lights. The signals should change just as the dwell time is ending and the tram should just pull away into full acceleration for that segment.
The LRT doesn’t even get the first signal necessarily. I often drive north on King St. and it actually annoys me that I can be waiting at Allen St. for the green light while the LRT is waiting also, having just finished serving the stop. Then my light turns green first. I mean, I’m happy to be getting home a few seconds earlier, but really it makes no sense to give me the light first: the LRT should go first, then me.
Flip side is that at several locations both directions of motor vehicle traffic stop for the LRT even though it only blocks one direction of traffic. This is true at King/Allen, King/railway overpass, and Charles/Benton at least. All of these locations should be upgraded so that a single LRV only stops one direction of motor vehicle traffic. Of course if LRVs come in both directions at the same time then the way it works now is fine.
So improvements in signalling could significantly speed up the LRT while having only a tiny effect on motor vehicles, or maybe even no net effect.