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ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
(12-11-2023, 11:23 PM)ijmorlan Wrote: To be fair, the LRT can’t go very fast on that block because of tight curves at each end.

Unlike all the places where it can’t go very fast because the people in charge won’t let it go faster.

Fair point. I happened to be going through today so I recorded the speeds on Google Maps. Ignore the navigation, I used car trip to get the speed to show up but I think it shouldn't affect the accuracy.

https://i.imgur.com/2vryNOa.mp4

I didn't record after the station but it also got up to about 40km/h, slowing down to 10-15km/h for the bends. So a 30km/h limit would technically slow the trip down a very small amount.

(12-20-2023, 10:46 AM)danbrotherston Wrote:
(12-19-2023, 11:37 PM)Bytor Wrote: 40km/h is unlikely.

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As for 40km/h, I think the thing that makes it less likely is the overly conservative operational safety policy which means they often operate the tram at more than 10km/h below the limit.

See above to remove some speculation from your discussion. At least the operator I had today went by FDB at roughly 40km/h.
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RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit - by dtkvictim - 12-20-2023, 06:57 PM
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