General Road and Highway Discussion

[KevinL]

Lane reductions are now in place on Ottawa, just west of Westmount. Not sure how far it reaches, likely to Fischer-Hallman.

[ZEBuilder]

Lane reductions are now in place on Ottawa, just west of Westmount. Not sure how far it reaches, likely to Fischer-Hallman.

It goes all the way to Fischer-Hallman, there was also some lane restrictions through the Fischer-Hallman/Ottawa intersection yesterday.

[Acitta]

"There's no reason [buses] need to be a thing of the past." — Eric Miller (@civmin). Why is it so hard to get around Ontario? Tonight on TVO at 8/11pm.

[plam]

"There's no reason [buses] need to be a thing of the past." — Eric Miller (@civmin). Why is it so hard to get around Ontario? Tonight on TVO at 8/11pm.

I certainly don't have the answer, and especially not for northern Ontario, but I certainly would prefer means of transport that are not buses for inter-city travel (which is the topic of this discussion).

[nms]

Isn't GO Transit rolling out more bus routes beyond the edges of the rail network? Procurement takes time.

[bravado]

For the transport nerds out there:

Region expands real-time data collection to all signalized intersections
The aim is to help guide how roads, transit, and pedestrian and cycling facilities will improve through 2041

https://www.cambridgetoday.ca/local-news...ns-9117659

[nms]

The monitoring devices are typically on poles that look like shepherd's hooks attached to a signal pole. A sign, "Traffic surveillance device" is also attached to the pole.

[cherrypark]

Nice to see Miovision expanding its use locally. Inspiring company.

[ijmorlan]

The monitoring devices are typically on poles that look like shepherd's hooks attached to a signal pole.  A sign, "Traffic surveillance device" is also attached to the pole.

What actually are they? They look exactly like cameras to my non-expert eye (but of course what I’m actually seeing is the outer dome which covers the device itself).

[bravado]

Based on the press release it sounds like cameras that better detect different types of vehicles/road users to collect data like that - but not new timing or detection sensors for the signals themselves.

[taylortbb]

Yes, they are cameras, feed into a computer vision system for automated counts. The emergence of cheap high quality computer vision systems has resulted in a lot of sensors now being implemented as a camera + computer vision. Just like happened with computers, specialized hardware is expensive, and using software + standardized hardware is much cheaper. They call them sensors to distinguish them from things that actually record visually useful video for surveillance.