What I struggle with trying to adapt this and circulation planning to a local context (Greater Victoria) is how we have little redundancy in thoroughfares, narrow existing RoWs, and almost no land for greenfield bypasses. Do you have any thoughts or examples of how to work around such constraints?

Don't worry, there's still the rest of the province!

That and Line 2/4 in Ottawa (which I believe is also slower than the bus it replaced?)

I don't know how they'll achieve a BCR > 1, so hopefully this doesn't become an expensive exercise in repeating the province's analysis. A FN-led project does feel more promising than one that isn't, though.

For example, Kelowna did this work years ago and found that the dense core brought in a lot more tax revenue than it cost in infrastructure while the low density suburbs were a drag on city finances

I really want to emphasize that TSP isnt just a setting or some parameters. Sometimes helping buses is adding detection on the side street so you dont have to recall phases which allows you to utilize more flexible signal operation.

The challenge is that the 70/71/72 have to fill the role of the 620 and e.g. the 555: there's enough local demand to justify FTN service, but that doesn't jive with ferry scheduling. BC Transit doesn't have the hours or buses to run both right now.

Westshore <-> Downtown would be very hard at street level. Even when there are no cars, you're hurdling through lights to/from Uptown.

Highway 17 is probably the least complex: few intersections and mostly needs bus on shoulder. Not enough for 30min times, but enough to eliminate traffic delays.

I dont think we've been challenged to think about signals from a transit perspective. You have to find the handful of engineers who work on signals, have a stake in transit operations, and are willing to try new things.

Looks to be www1.coe.neu.edu/~pfurth/Furt...

I believe a big part of what Reece is getting at is that the signals aren't prioritized correctly! Plenty of examples in NA that look like B or C, but force transit vehicles to wait an entire cycle (including left turns) before moving.