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You, like the city's Transportation Management director, may have just fallen for the Phase Order Fallacy:

Fact-checking the TTC about signal priority

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.