Traffic agents improve TTC travel times for King streetcars
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ต.ค. 2024
- New data shows that traffic flow along the King Street transit corridor has improved significantly since agents have been deployed at key intersections. Mark McAllister reports.
this also shows the amount of idiot drivers on the road that caused all this
i'm more scared of getting hit by a bike rider than a car driver
cars generate constant revenue. bikes don't. walkers don't
@@blackoutgstar9949 pedestrianized cities disagree.
So, now you just need to put traffic wardens on Yonge, Bloor, Queen, Dundas, College, Jarvis, Bathurst, Ossington. Well done.
Do all those street have cars mixed in with the tram line?
@@weppwebb2885on king street, yes. There are other lines they run in their own right of way.
The city needs more subway coverage if it wants to significantly improve movement of people. North-south is only serviced by two lines and they are relatively close together.
That's why they're building the Ontario line
@@OntarioTrafficMan yeah, but only due to be completed by 2031. Very slow progress in this province. They should also pressure higher level of governments to get on with a similar corridor in the west asap (Etobicoke perhaps) or we will be looking at 2050+ at 3x current costs.
I’m an Uber driver, this has helped a bit.
Make down-town core free car zone. Only TTC transportation allowed....
Commercial deliveries after working hours....
There would have to be exceptions to that for staff and patients going to and from hospitals, construction workers, buses (not TTC) servicing the hotels, etc
and people wouldn't go there and there would be nothing there and no point in going there
bike rider i'm guessing?
city stepping in to do what TPS has refused to do for decades. Actually enforce traffic laws.
the thing is putting police officers there is going to have a much higher financial burden than putting special constables there
I'm in favor of cutting traffic time and creating new jobs.
i think a big move would be to try to redesign the physical layout of each intersection to force right hand turns onto and off of the street only. though it would be a good idea to exempt trucks from the right turn rule especially large ones. the idea id think might work is additional medians that make it hard to turn left off of the street and forced right turns from the right lanes. ttc, emergency vehicles and trucks could still go through but trucks would have to enter at one end or the other. bonus it would potentially free up space for deliveries by the trucks at the curb
People do not follow rules well enough while driving to allow private traffic on King Street unless you're going to have traffic agents standing there 24/7.
Or you know, you could put in transit priority signaling
There is transit priority at the minor intersections (Peter, John, Simcoe, Church) and also Bathurst and Jarvis, but the problem is that there's no priority at the major intersections (Spadina, University, Bay, Yonge)
@@OntarioTrafficMan it runs on a track. how is that not priority?
on jarvis they have a lane that switches sides depending on which rush hour it is. i never see traffic congestion there
remove the bike lanes so cars can move.
with gps bike riders can take side streets. it will be faster and safer for the bike riders to choose an alternate route instead of thinking they have the right of way all the time
@@blackoutgstar9949 "transit priority signalling" refers to the ability to modify traffic signal timing
Why not just remove the cars from this street?
too radical for the 905ers who drive into dt and out to their suburbs
If you work on King, earn half a million a year, do you wanna crumble into the streetcar with 84k others daily and risk being robbed?
@@kelvincao8359 I feel like if you work on King making 500k/ year you'd be able to afford living downtown, not slumming it in the suburbs.
@@James-vj5hz Living in downtown with high salary in fact justifies owning a car instead being forced to take streetcars. Plus more wealthy people have families tend to live in spacious suburban houses that downtown cannot provide
@@kelvincao8359 im certainly not saying don't live in the burbs i also enjoy my suburban house and lifestyle
but you do realize its 7x more dangerous to drive than to take the TTC (statistically). also, with improved streetcar service comes less crowdedness and faster commute timings for everyone (including drivers)...
again, not saying "no cars only public transit", it's just that cars are significantly prioritized in dt, and streetcars w/ their own right-of-way would go a long way to improving everything for everyone.
but i still think if you're a 905er who drives into dt, you're kinda dumb.
How about traffic agents to improve vehicle travel times.
They need to ban cars downtown. Streetcars can run a lot faster and become a much better service.
it runs on a track mostly. cars can't left turn.
get rid of the bike lanes.
all the restaurants are already suffering, banning cars will shut them down and there would be no downtown.
use a gps and find a route to take on side streets if you're on a bike instead of thinking that you have the right of way 100% of the time. it will be safer and faster for bike riders
We had a group being trained at Pape and Danforth.
pape and danforth is horrible for traffic
they don't even have taste of the danforth anymore because they put the bike lanes
one lane both ways...
money is being lost there not made
olivia chows final solution
Did TO actually vote for her, feel like she is a puppet?
shes a mupet@@2FLIPS3.5TWISTS
@@2FLIPS3.5TWISTS I did. She's the best mayor we've had in decades.
@@2FLIPS3.5TWISTS well that's the problem with having 100+ people on the ballot
votes get wasted
why would people vote for someone who has no chance at winning
she won. so accept it
Why not just bike
the city is already cutting everything because they are over budget
now we cut off all that revenue stream?
there is no revenue from bike riders
Ban all cars. that will sure improve traffic.
Why does the mayor sound like she just arrived off the boat?
i want to be a traffic agent and make $45 an hour
No wonder this mayor is crying for more money when its wasted on $45/hour traffic agents. Why not re-design the streets so that they don't require them to begin with?
@@UzumakiNaruto_ this mayor is crying for money because the city needs it - taxes are low and feds are dumping 1000's of new people in Toronto every day. It is only fair to ask them to actually pay for it. This mayor is the first mayor that actually got Toronto some amazing deals (like offloading Gardiner and DVP from city's budget).
Go apply then
@@UzumakiNaruto_ no matter how hard you try to design something to be foolproof, there will always be people that prove you wrong. Either due to selfishness or straight up stupidity.
They stand outside during freezing weather in the middle of dangerous traffic. The drivers are half-crazed-they even purposely run over school crossing guards. Yet the traffic wardens are expected to know how to safely direct multiple lanes of traffic and be courteous to everyone, including the idiots who refuse to follow instructions. What do you propose a fair wage for this is, minimum wage? At the very least, they should expect construction worker wages.
This just proves that most of those drivers are idiots and shouldn’t have their drivers license.
do what they do on jarvis
put a lane that changes direction during each rush hour. bike riders use their gps and find a safer, faster route
i feel safer around cars than i do bike riders because most bike riders are dangerous riders
they always have the right away they believe. they run more red lights than drivers exponentially
license bike riders who ride downtown and make them use a tracker so when they run red lights they get a ticket
make them get a license and take a test that teaches them the laws and that they don't always have the right of way or the right to run red lights and weave through pedestrians trying to cross the road
And Queen and Adaliade remane closed and all other roads are snarled. Hey but Kung street is 3 times faster.
Better than it being three times slower.
A.I Robots would be cheaper and safer.
This is sad...
That's such a lie. All those guys can do is block traffic for everyone else and clear a path for street cars.
"Everyone else" is 3 moms in 3 large suvs taking up the whole road and the street car is 40 people in one car
@@CHAOS80120 The street car is blocking traffic and if you block off the rest of the road then there will be more of a traffic jam.
You should resume the old traffic speed from 50 back to 60. Increase highway speed from 90 to 100. Make sure the passing lane is indeed passing lane.
no. increasing city speed does not help the city. if anything city speed should be lowered to 30 to let others use the road
@@lennywatchesstuff
The main reason they lower the speed limit is just so that if it would reduce the damage. This does not make sense…
@@lennywatchesstuff 40 sure, but 30 seems a bit much no?
@@Mystro256 30 is for residential streets. 40 for collectors, and 50 for arterials, etc.
I agree. If you can’t stop suddenly at 40 km to avoid a collision, you have no business operating a motor vehicle. It means you drive too closely, are too easily distracted, don’t signal, check mirrors or don’t have the motor reflexes to handle a car. 30km is laughably slow but is a result of licensing so many poor drivers.
These are not even basic service levels expected from the 4 largest city in North America.
This is NO achievement , just lame chest thumping by a Mayor by chance.
Since the previous mayors failed to do this, then I think it’s fair for the current mayor to take credit for finally doing something.
This exactly the reason politicians in Canada take advantage of voters.
The attitude ‘something is better than nothing’ needs to change
You are reporting on this and not the fact that Europe is on fire. Can't wait for Canadian farmers to protest
What part of Europe is on fire
The channel is literally called "city news" as in news related to your city ....not global news
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@@SZiani Sorry not into fake news that hides the biggest and most monumental protests I have seen in my lifetime that have been going on for over a month. We have such amazing independent journalism in Canada now.