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Engineering Bad Outcomes (with CityNerd)

The Urbanist Agenda

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The Importance of Signal Failure

Getting stuck in traffic is built into the language right that's what they call it if it's a level of service f at a traffic signal that generally means that you're not going to get through the signal on the first time and they call that signal failure. When you have to wait one minute more that's failure, he says. "It was always absurd to me in these conversations" when engineers talked about transit signal priority for street cars like there's a streetcar line on spadina street in Toronto which has a dedicated right-of-way but does not have signal priority at the traffic lights according to an engineer. It just seems so bizarre to meYeah i remember the discussion had it

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