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Finch West Line 6 LRT

Monarch Butterfly said:
TTC has started up their web site for the Etobicoke—Finch West LRT.

So far they only have a PDF for the study area map.

I find the map interesting for in that the line could have its west end terminal at the Humber College north campus, my old college. A few years or decades late for me.
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It's now open!

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hw621 said:
But trains are still stuck at red lights. That is not going to change.
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I was thinking. Would it be possible to allow the LRT to have a green light before the advance green? This would save 25 seconds x 16 stops. The bus can go at the same time as the advance green so it has more signal priority than the LRT.

We spent how many billions of dollars for a train that travels slower than a bike. The bike even gets signal priority over the LRT.
 
The single-occupant SUV turning left MUST get priority ahead of the up to 400 people onboard the light rail train because it might be driven by a VIP. Especially if that SUV is driven by an Ontario MPP and is in government. Saw what happened with the speed cameras, have to do as your overseers proclaim.
 
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The thing that irks me about all of this, is that we have various clowns (both political and within the TTC) who have been out for the past couple days clapping their hands like sea otters as if this is a monumental achievement that billions were spent to open one of the slowest "rapid transit" projects in the world.

But these same clowns are the ones who will do absolutely nothing to ensure the operations of the line actually function to it's maximum ability, and will continue to inhibit operations by continuing to institute idiotic policies.

I'd love for someone to do a study on the ratio of $ spent/travel speed of transit projects in the world. This one would rank in the top 10% i'm sure.

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Source: CityNews story(LRT)
 
Amare said:
The thing that irks me about all of this, is that we have various clowns (both political and within the TTC) who have been out for the past couple days clapping their hands like sea otters as if this is a monumental achievement.
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It is a monumental achievement. Something can be a monumental achievement and unsatisfactory in important ways.
 
FW36 said:
So based in comments best case secanrio LRT travel time from one end to another is about 35- 45 minutes, and when busy about 50+ minutes. It honestly is disappointing. It's an easy fix potentially but I really don't think Toronto will respond. I hope for the good of transit users toronto gives the LRT priority or else I think the project will be seen as a white elephant.
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I spoke with one out of a group of TTC instructors on a westbound train from Finch West. He went out of his way to tell me that the average trip time for a Finch West to Humber College or vice-versa is 51-52 minutes. He said the low end is 46 minutes only if they get lucky at the traffic lights. I was initially talking to other patrons about hearing of a 50-55 minute trip time when he interrupted to tell us the actual average trip time.

A TTC supervisor on the platform at Finch West later told me the one-way trips end-to-end were 50 minutes+ because of safety reasons; they wanted reliability and "didn't want the train to derail". Shades of O-Train Line 1?

Lastly, a gentleman in a navy blue and neon green high-vis coat, who overheard my conversation with the supervisor, told me that Black & McDonald was the contractor in charge of the signals. He more or less confirmed that transit signal priority was not much of a priority right now and exasperatingly said that Black & McDonald were very slow at getting stuff done. I assume this navy blue neo green coat guy was from one of the Mosaic Transit Group companies as he wore no TTC ID or identifying marks on his coat.

All in all, absolutely shambolic speeds. And to think there were people saying 46 minutes was an overestimate, when it was actually an underestimate.

Remember, Metrolinx said 38 minutes at most. This clownery is emblematic of many things, including but not limited to: underfunding of transportation and the decline of meritocracy.

Two links, same document saying 33-34 minutes and 38 minutes:
 
I took a ride this morning - Gregg Lintern was on the train and we happened to chat for a bit which was a nice surprise.

The ride from Humber College to Finch West took 50 minutes. The train never exceeded 45km/h and rarely exceeded 30km/h. Gregg reported it took over an hour for him to go from Finch West to Humber College.

It was insanely, painfully slow. And it can’t just be blamed on signal priority - that was actually a relatively minor issue. The TTC is simply operating it insanely cautiously. On the downhill stretch from Kipling to Islington it never exceeded 40km/h - 20 under the speed limit on a dead straight stretch of tracks with no signals and no stops, downhill!


It’s great to see a new line open, but the TTC better wise up and actually start operating the line properly or this will be a complete failure.
 
innsertnamehere said:
I took a ride this morning - Gregg Lintern was on the train and we happened to chat for a bit which was a nice surprise.

The ride from Humber College to Finch West took 50 minutes. The train never exceeded 45km/h and rarely exceeded 30km/h. Gregg reported it took over an hour for him to go from Finch West to Humber College.

It was insanely, painfully slow. And it can’t just be blamed on signal priority - that was actually a relatively minor issue. The TTC is simply operating it insanely cautiously. On the downhill stretch from Kipling to Islington it never exceeded 40km/h - 20 under the speed limit on a dead straight stretch of tracks with no signals and no stops, downhill!


It’s great to see a new line open, but the TTC better wise up and actually start operating the line properly or this will be a complete failure.
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The 10km/h to Humber College from Hwy 27 is an absolute killer. I don’t understand why it was designed this way or is being run this way.
 
I watched an entire video from end to end and I just have one question...........would it help if everyone got out and pushed? Transit priority would help but there are just so many flaws one knows hardly where to start.

Waiting for cars to turn left? No signal priority? 10km/hour speed limit in the tunnels? Every 6 minutes in rush hour? and all this backed up by the fact that there are 2 many stations with some being just a couple blocks apart. A painted bus lane would be superior to this for $50 million. What a horrifying waste of money made worse by the fact that it's coming to an Eglinton Line near you.
 
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