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According to TTCHelps, introducing TSP at intersections will reduce the total end to end travel time down to... 46 minutes.

They should just make it uni-directional, Canada bound trips only.

I'm sorry... when did this happen? I wasn't aware that the alignment has been chosen already, and even though I do think sparks is better, I thought it was open and shut to go down Wellington.

Gonna play Devil's Advocate for a bit. If we are to treat the whole downloading process at face value, it was done so because those roads were no longer considered to be important, so its kinda useless to make the argument of "it used to be highway" since there's a "reason" why its no longer a...

It would be an interesting loophole to just increase the scheduled times for the train so that TSP is always on.

There are a bunch of off street segments whether in tunnels, viaducts, or just running the line off to the side like this: This is the problem with doing direct comparisons with "Light Rail" systems. Each line is so different whilst running in different environments that direct comparisons are...

I'll be nice and say that the section between Mt Olive and Rowntree Mills isn't that bad. At least the trains can reach 60km/h on this section.

It's literally there in the article I quoted: This is what Metrolinx was promising back in 2009 during the peak of the Transit City craze. Keep in mind at that this was still when the line was planned to run all the way to Finch Station, so that 46m accounts for that.

At the very least it needs more passing lanes.

Honestly I wouldn't necessarily use that as a measure, especially in Toronto. The reality is that most people drive above speed limit in this city, so even in the most optimal conditions cars will be faster simply because trams/busses have to obey posted speed limit. This could be rectified by...

TSP is frankly not even the top of this line's concerns. The train simply shouldn't be crawling at 20km/h between stations (not at intersections), and it especially shouldn't be running at 10km/h in the curved tunnel under H27/Finch. The operations here are just beyond inexcusable for a finished...

I checked a few stop pairings in Prague (and I focused on the straight ones). Again it seems to hover around 17-19km/h. Better than Finch West, but its far from amazing. I haven't seen anything that reaches the promised 22km/h speeds on Finch West.

And here comes the copium train. Fact of the matter is the speeds that were being sold were optimistic to begin with. Marco Chitti made an article going over this a few days ago and points out that trams similar in style to Finch West struggle to hit the 20km/h average speed and typically fall...

No shot, guy was probably stating the official planned speeds.

I'm hearing reports that the transfer lights on the TR were disabled for all lines, I guess to be consistent with the lack of lights on Lines 5/6. Or maybe it was broken.

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I was at Stevenson and nobody distributed tokens. Is this grounds for a lawsuit 😂 Update 8:23, still nobody here Update 8:49, we give up

Precisely. And also, the Ontario Line is a completely different beast from Yonge and BD. The latter are cut and cover sub-surface subways where the platforms are 1-2 set of steps away from street level. They're extremely easy to access and waste little time. The Ontario Line meanwhile will be a...

Ideally yes, but in practice there's a reason why we don't put physical barriers on HOV lanes - if someone is driving egregiously slowly on HOV lanes (like 85) it's probably fine. The worst case scenarios are people (I've seen this happen many times) who drive like 90, then speed up to like 120...

First, Huntsville is a weird choice considering that he's literally building the Northlander which will serve Huntsville. Second, Doug also heavily deregulated the coach bus market that has lead to the current status quo of improved inter city busses to many cities and prices that are a lot...