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It's mainly the city's wish to have a smaller footprint. The platforms are much bulkier and unaesthetic when you use high floor vehicles. However low floor vehicles are harder and more expensive to maintain. Ottawa was an idiot to go with low floor with a complete grade separated line. Not to...

It's Eglinton that is posed 50 but allows the LRVs to go 60. Finch West is posted 60.

After the reconstruction of that famous KQQR intersection and extending the ROW to reduce streetcar delays, they felt the road should be reduced to 40 km/h. So after all that effect to speed up streetcars, they create another way to slow it right back down.

That 40 km/h limit is absurd. There's barely any pedestrian traffic, even on a hot summer day. Clearly there to just slow down streetcars.

Once they complete that direct passage at Dundas West to Bloor GO, it’s an alternative way to get around the city. You’re right, I doubt people will travel like that. Perhaps if it’s Mount Dennis to the Golden Miles shopping area, line 5 will still be better, especially if you’re carrying a...

At least Ford got it right for his riding. Riders won’t be subjected to crawling streetcars moving at 10 km/h average.

It’s more amusing that they use wear and tear as an excuse. The vehicles were designed for this. Low floor vehicles supposedly incurs more too.

I been saying that they need to grade separate the Kingston Rd, Lawrence and morningside intersection. Remove some left turns and use two stage crossing. Figure out how to implement transit priority before building.

It indeed came installed and never reconfigured. Those TYSSE leds were simply covered up on the pre-TYSSE maps and never turned on so no one would know they were there unless told.

What's worse is the judges will side with the dumbasses doing illegal things citing ttc being "professionals" should take more duty of care. Which is why doors close slower now. Buses accelerate slower now. All of this crap to keep potential Darwin Award winners alive and continue to pass on...

I highly doubt that will solve the problem. TTC being fear that cars will randomly getting in its way would issue a notice to all bus drivers in the middle of the BRT roadway to slow down well ahead of the intersection before proceeding. The LRT line is decided for trains to cruise at full...

The ionic thing is this city did install a two stage crossing at Eglinton and Solane. So they know it exists. I don’t know how long it will take for them to install it for every intersection and how difficult it is to install it for crossings without a station platform. First, they’ll have to...

Can’t as in TO can’t implement it without giving excuses.

Finch is much wider than the roads the ION runs on. So pedestrian must be given enough time to cross the road which is around 40 seconds. You can’t cut that short and let a train through. They’ll have to change it to two stage crossing if they want to work around TSP and preemption. It’s much...

You can look up Houston and watch how efficient their system ran for 2 decades. I do have to say left turning traffic does complicate things. It would be better if the tracks are on its own corridor like ION than in the middle of a major roadway.

They pretend they weren’t living under a rock and have an excuse to not involve TSP with a saying it’s not used here. Idiots

The model is probably way off as it was modelling traffic in 2000s which is significantly less. The model was definitely for shorter trains too. They assume it’ll start with one car with the length of the current streetcars and eventually ramp up to two cars. The current streetcars also don’t...

If they ever expand, certainly they can do that. However since they operate to profit, this would require a lot more international students which isn't happening anymore. Davisville and Rosedale (the other one I forgot) are covered directly but wind/snow blows sideways, snow sometimes ends up...

You tell that to Calgary, they built some stations like that too. Oh yeah, there is Davisville Station too.

They aren't even embarrassed. They went straight to the blame game and called out the control system limiting their speed. Rail lines was setup to fail if the modern TTC operates them. We can see from historical videos that TTC operated a much faster streetcar and subway system than the crap...