Catenary
Active Member
Ask yourself this, is ROW unique to LRT systems, or can streetcars (or "trams") systems also have them ; the same goes for signal priority. And do streetcars that have ROW uses simple low-level platforms? It's easy why some people will dismiss the TTC LRT as rebranded streetcars. (Except for the tunneled part of the Eglinton Crosstown, but we all know that's a subway running LRVs)
It's a very different point of view in Ottawa (where I currently am) which has just signed off on an LRT and the public usually refers to it as a Subway. Very similar to Eglinton; low platforms, "tram style" LRT trains (that are ridiculously long) and a tunnel in the middle, and the word on the street is "Did you hear about the subway they're going to build under downtown?" I haven't heard the term "streetcars" used by the public once!