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You seriously think the number of floors is a meaningful impediment to a propulsion method? You can fit any power source in any number of levels if you want. And besides, two seconds of googling turned up this...

These are 8am on Monday. It's scheduled for 18 minutes. Line 2 is also faster on sundays, you'd need to update that as well if you want to use Sunday times

Interestingly even the underground segment of the line is surprisingly slow. Between Keele and Yonge it's slower than the Bloor subway, despite having fewer stops. For context, 21 km/h is slower than the Waterloo LRT, which doesn't have a single grade separation and goes through dozens of...

It doesn't get enforced. Once someone enters the subway portion of the system there's no way of getting caught for fare evasion, since there are no fare checks on the subway. It's similar to how they created huge holes in the pay-as-you-enter zone when they converted streetcars to...

Sort of... They will email current timing cards to anyone who asks for it, but they charge $131.55 for the privilege. toronto.ca/services-payments/streets-parking-transportation/traffic-management/traffic-signals-street-signs/request-signal-timing-information Responding to a signal timing...

This is pretty much the only good solution for situations where we need to allow cars to turn left from the streetcar tracks, such as at Bathurst and Adelaide. In the longer term it would be better to spread the tracks to create a left turn lane off the tracks, but in the meantime we could...

That's not a problem with extended green, that's a problem with the red clearance intervals (ultimately caused by terrible track switches). If you give streetcars 4 seconds of all-red clearance (7 seconds total intergreen) but it actually takes 27 seconds to cross the intersection then you can't...

That video is an excerpt of a larger video I haven't finished yet. There will also be a section on Green/Walk extensions, which are much more common than Green/Don't Walk extensions. For example Walk extensions are programmed at Spadina & Nassau: At the intersections along Spadina with lots of...

Thank you for these detailed observations! This is great context for what has been accomplished (and what has not yet been accomplished) Phase rotation makes the streetcar phase start earlier, but it also makes the streetcar phase end earlier, which could increase delay for a streetcar coming...

The schedule is set based on the slowest streetcars (i.e. the late ones). If you speed up the slowest streetcars, your schedule automatically gets shortened as part of the schedule review process.

All the City has publicly stated so far is that they are imminently implementing phase rotation on Spadina at Dundas, College and King, followed by rollouts across Spadina, Finch W and Eglinton E. Which is obviously good news, but it's not enough on its own to produce the level of priority that...

The schedules are created by observing the travel times and setting the schedule to an above-average time. If you set the schedule to the average time, half the streetcars will be late. The reason the schedules are so long currently is that the travel times are very inconsistent. Improving TSP...

Please read the City of Toronto Lane Width Guideline for more information.

The white bar signals are for turning left or right. They have nothing to do with rotating the phases to proceed straight earlier.

The City policy is already to narrow lanes as part of road work so there's no point in advocating for it