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Originally Posted by MalcolmTucker
The ciy plans a 25 km BRT route from NWHUB (U of C, Foothills) to Saddletown for BRT. ~$50 million capital, ~$10 million operating, with a projected ridership of 14 million a year.
In some sections dedicated lanes may make sense, I bet in most places skip lanes at intersections with dedicated signals likely all that is needed.
HOV lanes don't need to be in the curb lane.
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This would be a huge benefit. I think everyone underestimates the number of trips throughout the day that activity centres like SAIT, University and Foothills generate all within a rather small area.
A Whitehorn to U of C route with limited stops and no dumb deviations off of 16th which wastes too much efficiency and time.
Think the 99B-Line in Vancouver. They implemented it as essentially a peak-hour limited stop by very direct route from the nearest sky-train station to UBC. Now it is an all-day, high-frequency, all-door boarding, 100,000 user / day behemoth that's only issue is that it is too popular.
16th Ave shares many similarities. With the right amount of queue jumps and a high enough frequency, it has potential to be mega successful. As well as act as a serious relief capacity to the University student transfer downtown on the LRT, freeing up that capacity for others.
Other than upgrades to the already successful Route 3, this Crosstown could easily be the biggest bang for the buck that Calgary Transit has in the hopper of ideas for Route Ahead.
*** As long as there are no BS deviations to the direct route! Hell, ridership would increase 100% on all routes if routes stopped being so windy and inefficient ***