SlickFranky
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You can't claim to be able to sustain subwaylike speeds the whole length of route if your stop spacings aim to slow travel times down to 22 kph along Eglinton East.
Who, exactly, has made that claim?
You can't claim to be able to sustain subwaylike speeds the whole length of route if your stop spacings aim to slow travel times down to 22 kph along Eglinton East.
What about The Queensway right-of-way for the 501 Queen, which pre-dates all the other right-of-ways (1957)? Except for the South Kingsway stop and the portion east of Parkside Drive, the right-of-way has most of what Transit City could be. Except, again, missing true transit priority at the traffic signals.
Unfortunately, the reliability of such ROW cannot be judged based on Queensway, since the 501 service is totally screwed up by mixed-traffic downtown sections.
Doesn't this scenario show what happens when you mix contexts then? Like say on Eglinton?
Hmm I think you're misunderstanding the prefix "proto"...
Doesn't this scenario show what happens when you mix contexts then? Like say on Eglinton?
Transit City is an entirely new entity not built based on any prototype. It will have stop spacings differing between routes, but always greater than St.Clair or Spadina, it will have vast underground portions unlike St.Clair or Spadina, ...
... will have boardings at all doors unlike St.Clair or Spadina ...
From the lines currently on the table, only Eglinton will have a large underground portion.
SELRT will have a 1 km tunnel approaching Don Mills and Finch LRT will have an underground station at Finch / Keele, but those are not unlike underground streetcar stations at St Clair West and Spadina / Bloor.
Btw, it would make a lot of sense to introduce and test all-door boarding on St Clair and Spadina. That does not require same gauge as TC, and does not involve locking horns with the Roads Department (like transit priority signals).
They do it already on portions of Queen and Queen's Quay, but St Clair and Spadina seem logical candidates as well.
They do a version of all door boarding on St Clair during the morning rush at some of the busier stops. It's pretty sad though...they actually have a TTC employee standing at the stop, checking passes and transfers so people can board using the rear doors.
And they thought they would cut down on labour with LRTs. I would not be surprised one bit if the TTC started installing manned booths at each LRT stop.
Well, they're going to have to do something with all of those subway drivers they will no longer need, when the service goes automated
The trains will be manned with drviers even with ATO. The drivers wll open, and close the doors, computers will do the rest. The ECLRT ATO system will most likely be similar, where computers take over in the tunnel, and hand back control at the portals.