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Originally Posted by one_brick_at_a_time
Love your grid/route number system plan idea.
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Thanks. If I were redoing it today I'd (of course) extend the lines to the new areas (lots has changed in 13 years!), extend more lines to the University (e.g. what I have as route 3) and have the main lines terminate at a mall or some other hub, and connect the lines at these terminals. E.g. what I have as routes 2, 6 and 10 would connect at one of the malls in the east end. Glad to see the City's proposal does exactly this.
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Originally Posted by HomerSPC
BRT is probably as far away for Regina as your transit plan is for Winnipeg. A large percentage of the main lines run on arterial roads without an easy way to separate them. Really the only part that could be separated is the Arcola stretch, the rest will likely have to just be diamond lanes.
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Agree. The recommendations document also highlights bus priority at traffic lights, which will be feasible and necessary if major intersections are also going to be the transfer points for the "Main" routes.
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Originally Posted by Kegger
Wow thanks for the write up. Really should have read your comment before I did the survey. My quick look at the map had me thinking the local routes would be similar to how they are now. That is wrong. I am impacted by the arcola route and... well I will be negatively impacted by this change. But... you are right it is a very difficult area to service.
If you are going from the Assiniboine route, I would assume to get to downtown you hop on a local route and transfer to the Arcola main route? From what I gather here?
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That's what it looks like to me. Walking/biking to get to a stop on Arcola will be intimidating for many, I think. Or if you're in the on-demand catchment area, maybe you can get a direct drop off to the Arcola route stop. It looks like a pain, but then again the circuitous routes were never fast either. At the promised frequencies you might have a 10 minute wait, but at least it's a straight shot downtown once you're on.
Or perhaps they'll build a park and ride at Arcola/Prince of Wales: definitely plenty of space there. If you could count on service every 10 minutes to get to/from downtown, and there were separate BRT lanes (plenty of space on the shoulder as is), and with traffic what it is often now on Arcola, it's not crazy to drive to a park and ride and take the bus, given how much people think there's "never any parking downtown".