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Originally Posted by Truenorth00
Downtown Halifax is rather small. As you pointed out earlier, you can cover a lot of it on your own two feet. So transit isn't so much about downtown, but about regional travel, including getting suburbanites into and out of the core. In that sense, the suburbanites are right to complain about a transit design system that makes things worse for them. As say an LRT with multiple transfer would.
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Originally Posted by Truenorth00
It would act much like the TTC does. You take a bus to the subway(LRT) and then take it downtown.
https://www.halifax.ca/transportation/halifax-transit/routes-schedules
A quick look of some of the routes that serve the outlying areas don't go all the way downtown, so they require a transfer anyway. If done right, it would be Bus - LRT not Bus - LRT - LRT or Bus - LRT - Bus (unless crossing the harbour) |
The Express bus network they have designed is actually pretty decent. It can be something like VIVA in York or Züm in Brampton. They just need to pick the right corridors through the core and putting in decent infrastructure like Viva and Züm did. Would be nice for them to actually build a transit mall too and not just have buses in mixed traffic on Barrington and Spring Garden. |
The express routes have always been decent. Whether they were the Metrolink or MetroX, they were good to get you out of the city. The problem is, once they left Scotia Square, they didn't stop.
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Originally Posted by Truenorth00
Given the size of the network they are planning, I would think installing OCS for the whole network would be prohibitively expensive. They'd probably need all the buses to have batteries anyway. So might as well just go with larger batteries and Oppchargers. Since they seem to buy mostly Novabus, it should be noted that Novabus is highly supportive of the Oppcharge standard on their electric buses:
The Volvo (parent of Novabus) is actually a little better at explaining the benefits and uses a European example:
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I was suggesting that if they are going to keep buses for downtown they could make some of those routes Trolley buses.