Toronto Crosstown LRT | ?m | ?s | Metrolinx | Arcadis

[Johnny Au]

These are streets best used to bypass the Bayview-Eglinton intersection:

Broadway
Sutherland
Soudan

These are streets best used to bypass the Eglinton-Allen interchange and the Bathurst-Eglinton intersection:

Marlee
Roselawn/Elm Ridge or Old Forest Hill (thanks to the bridge over Bathurst)
Chaplin
Vaughan/Claxton/Burton/Kilbarry

 

[Allandale25]

First guideway pour next week according to this tweet:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1088906361063309313

 

[SaugeenJunction]

I cannot wait for Toronto's first "real" at-grade LRT segment to take shape!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1089918529665679360

 

[raptor]

I cannot wait for Toronto's first "real" at-grade LRT segment to take shape!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1089918529665679360

You might want to head to Spadina or St. Clair

 

[micheal_can]

I cannot wait for Toronto's first "real" at-grade LRT segment to take shape!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1089918529665679360

You might want to head to Spadina or St. Clair

I cannot understand the difference between the 2. Besides track gauge, they are virtually identical.

 

[hw621]

I cannot understand the difference between the 2. Besides track gauge, they are virtually identical.

Fingers crossed that Eglinton gets properly operating signal priority - frankly that will be the only distinction.

 

[SaugeenJunction]

You might want to head to Spadina or St. Clair

I cannot understand the difference between the 2. Besides track gauge, they are virtually identical.

I personally call Spadina, Waterfront, and St. Clair "streetcars with dedicated RoWs" - it is the short stop spacing and lack of traffic priority that makes me resist calling them true LRTs. These factors really put Line 5 and Line 6 on another level.

 

[micheal_can]

Fingers crossed that Eglinton gets properly operating signal priority - frankly that will be the only distinction.

And so, if they don't have signal priority, it is just a streetcar line with a different gauge track and cars?

 

[hw621]

And so, if they don't have signal priority, it is just a streetcar line with a different gauge track and cars?

Technically I would think so...

 

[Allandale25]

And so, if they don't have signal priority, it is just a streetcar line with a different gauge track and cars?

How do we know Eglinton won't have some form of signal priority? Has this been confirmed somewhere?

 

[micheal_can]

How do we know Eglinton won't have some form of signal priority? Has this been confirmed somewhere?

How do we know it will?
Seriously, there has been no real thing to point to it that I have seen.

 

[jordanmkasla2009]

http://thecrosstown.ca/sites/default/files/cts_newsletter_winter2018_final.pdf

LRVs travel on a dedicated right-of-way and have priority signaling at intersections.

 

[Allandale25]

^ Thanks Jordan!

 

[hw621]

http://thecrosstown.ca/sites/default/files/cts_newsletter_winter2018_final.pdf

I know they promoted it, but I will believe it when I see it.

 

[rbt]

I personally call Spadina, Waterfront, and St. Clair "streetcars with dedicated RoWs" - it is the short stop spacing and lack of traffic priority that makes me resist calling them true LRTs. These factors really put Line 5 and Line 6 on another level.

I assume your R in LRT is Rapid rather than Rail?

That's a fair interpretation, particularly considering the sister BRT acronym, but doesn't match the lines covered by the much much older R as Rail definition which covers damn near everything a Canadian Light Rail Vehicle (CLRV) might be able to run on.

IMO, we ought to start clarifying our "R"s when using LRT on this forum to prevent a ton of unnecessary "it-is"/"it-isn't" back and forth as we're thinking of 2 different things for the same acronym.