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TheTigerMaster said:
Obviously it's too early to make any proclamations about performance without signalling in place, but I must say that speed and performance does look very solid in this early stage of testing.
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Yes, performance looks much better with an increased playback speed. It's all part of how Metrolinx is bringing faster transit options to the GTA.
 
^I have been replaying that video with an eye on the autos - it seems that the lrv keeps pace with the road vehicles, sometimes the lrv pulls ahead at lights but the traffic catches up at the next light. My impression is the overall velocity has potential, depending on the. dwell at stops and lights.

- Paul
 
crs1026 said:
I have been replaying that video with an eye on the autos - it seems that the lrv keeps pace with the road vehicles
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At what timestamp? I feel like mid-block the cars are still whipping by when you would expect both to be at the same speed, there is one small stretch where it seems the vehicle guess the same speed but with the lane restrictions the cars are facing it is hard to know if that is congestion, and only when the light is unfavorable to the cars does it catch up and even then that only occurs rarely. This LRT may be able to go 60km/h but I don't feel this is showing that yet and if it is they need to put some speed traps here for the cars.
 
Don't read too much into that video.

It was shot back at the end of May from one of the cars being moved from the offloading location to where they are being stored in the tunnels between Laird and Leslie. It was given a police escort to ensure that no one was going to try and turn left across it. The ROW signals were not activated as yet nor were the signals for the interlockings, although they've started activating those over the past week or so.

They still haven't released video from the few runs that they did run shortly after delivery, and they aren't likely to make any performance runs - testing everything, at full speed - anytime soon.

Dan
 
I couldn't get photos, as I was driving............but crews were laying sod in the ROW yesterday between Warden and Birchmount. Lots of it.

I don't know if this is more testing, or if they've made up their minds, but they were doing a good 200M stretch anyways.

They had a watertruck driving by it spraying all the new grass down.
 
Today, looking southwest at Black Creek Drive and Eglinton Avenue West...
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W. K. Lis said:
The Toronto Botanical Garden is at Lawrence & Leslie. They should expand the gardens southward to the Sunnybrook Park stop at Leslie on Line 5.

See link.

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In respect of what most Botannical Gardens are known for, I don't think there's a case for that.

Wilket Creek Park, the area in question, is entirely natural but for the Bike Path.

I wouldn't want to see that become 'curated' gardens.

I'm all for expanding TBG, but the logical spot is the Church/school property to the south along Leslie; after which one could examine expansion on the Bridle Path side, though that's some seriously expensive real estate.
 
Northern Light said:
In respect of what most Botannical Gardens are known for, I don't think there's a case for that.

Wilket Creek Park, the area in question, is entirely natural but for the Bike Path.

I wouldn't want to see that become 'curated' gardens.

I'm all for expanding TBG, but the logical spot is the Church/school property to the south along Leslie; after which one could examine expansion on the Bridle Path side, though that's some seriously expensive real estate.
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Doesn't need to be "curated". Could be "wild" flowers, shrubs, grasses, and trees in a more natural setting along a path.
 
W. K. Lis said:
Doesn't need to be "curated". Could be "wild" flowers, shrubs, grasses, and trees in a more natural setting along a path.
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That's what is there now? (unless you mean the portion along the Sunnybrook Road itself.)
 
According to the "expansion" plan, it is centred on its current location at Lawrence & Leslie. See link.


TORONTO BOTANICAL GARDEN + EDWARDS GARDENS MASTER PLAN​

The master plan has been developed from extensive consultation between partners and stakeholders as well as the public. This consultation resulted in the following unifying vision: An internationally recognized botanical garden within the City of Toronto.
The “Big Moves” of the master plan include:
1. Connecting the western and eastern tablelands, through an enhanced accessible trail infrastructure.
2. Expanding the amenities and programs on both the eastern and western tablelands to take advantage of existing activities, features, vistas, and future opportunities.
3. Providing a grand gateway entrance, visible from the street and connecting the pedestrian and vehicular entrances to the site.
4. Respecting sensitive natural features and processes, and regulations relating to floodplains, slopes, ravines and Environmentally Significant Areas. Enhancing and restoring degraded areas within the Wilket Creek floodplain.
5. Creating safe circulation for the public by considering maintenance vehicles and the required access needed for operations, as well as separated cycling access through a garden bypass trail to which connects to the ravine valley multi-use trail system.
6. Creating a separate area for maintenance on the southwestern edge of the site, so these functions can be relocated from where they are currently, surrounding the event space and are intermingled with display gardens.
7. Increasing parking.
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Note that #7 is "Increasing parking". Zero about connecting with Line 5 at Sunnybrook Park. The car is still "king".
 
Toronto (and Ontario) should be looking at how to make its attractions more accessible to the public transit users. The Toronto Botanical Gardens is one bad example. Other examples are the Toronto Zoo and Ontario Place. At least, the Ontario Science Centre will be improved, except for its own safari from the station to the entrance, for about ten years when the Ontario Line is completed.
 
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