ON: City Reactivates Transit Signal Priority for Streetcars along King Street

The King streetcar is moving markedly faster through Toronto’s downtown core after city staff decided to reactivate a technology that raises the chances the transit vehicles will get a green traffic light.

When a pilot project aimed at speeding up the King car began in November, the transponder and sensor system known as transit signal priority (TSP) was turned off as part of an effort to control for variables during the experiment and allow traffic patterns to adjust.

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