Vice-chair Mihevc asked whether the order of phases matters given that the signal cycle is a cycle. The City’s Transportation Management director responded that it matters since they want to serve streetcars earlier. But this is inherently false because, as Vice-chair Mihevc correctly interjected, there’s no such thing as “earlier” or “later” in a cycle. On Spadina, where the streetcar phase comes “after” the left turn phase, it also comes two phases before the left turn phase.
Not really. My stance matches your article, I.e streetcars moving hundreds always get real time priority over a single dude in a car. Same for busses and all other transit. Slow down cars always for to speed up transit in any shared usage scenario. I’m personally indifferent to methodology past “use efficient, tested systems that work.”
You, like the city’s Transportation Management director, may have just fallen for the Phase Order Fallacy:
Fact-checking the TTC about signal priority
Not really. My stance matches your article, I.e streetcars moving hundreds always get real time priority over a single dude in a car. Same for busses and all other transit. Slow down cars always for to speed up transit in any shared usage scenario. I’m personally indifferent to methodology past “use efficient, tested systems that work.”