02-11-2022, 06:24 PM
(02-11-2022, 01:13 PM)Bytor Wrote:(02-11-2022, 11:57 AM)danbrotherston Wrote: Making it one way would involve redirecting one direction of several frequent bus routes, which is what regional engineers don't want to do. I argue that they could solve this by using the LRT right of way for the other direction of buses, but apparently that's "impossible".
Our system is not designed as a street car and the tram drivers are not trained as that. Further, the unreliability of busses thanks to congestion makes it difficult to run them in between trams with even a 15 minute headway and significantly more and more so as you decrease that window. You don't make the buses routes any more efficient or reliable, you just make the trams less so.
I think our tram drivers are sufficiently trained to know not to run into a bus on the right-of-way. The idea that a transit lane can’t handle more than one route or more than one vehicle every several minutes is nonsense. I would be concerned if there were a bus stop that required the bus to stop on the tracks; that would at a minimum require careful consideration and is not ideal.