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Originally Posted by Migrant_Coconut
Signal priority means very little: the opening target time is apparently 46 minutes end-to-end, or 13km/h average.
Most RapidBuses manage 20km/h+. Finch West with signal priority will be fighting to keep up with a RapidBus without it. And the RapidBus doesn't cost billions.
Glad we avoided that turd sandwich here. |
And yet there are still people on this board who think it is a good idea to have a streetcar running through Downtown/South False Creek/Arbutus. The selection of LRTs in North America is an entirely vibe-based decision to look European, ignoring that the primary goal of transit users is to get from A to B quickly and reliably. LRTs and streetcars fail to achieve that. If you want transit that is not grade separated and is slow, we have that; they're called buses.
"Oh but LRTs have higher capacity than buses." Capacity is not ridership, and if your system is slow, ridership will suffer.
"Oh but this city has LRTs that have average speeds up to 30 km/h +." Yes and that's only because it's mostly grade-separated. If only that had fully committed to grade separation, the trains could be automated and even faster for about the same money.
LRT: All the billions of a Subway with the speed and reliability of a bus!
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