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Originally Posted by Migrant_Coconut
You've confused capacity with ridership. It doesn't matter how many trainsets you scrounge up when the province has run the numbers and determined that only 1,505 people between Courtenay and Victoria will switch and leave their cars at home. Those bi-hourly trains would sit mostly empty. |
I counted 4 Duncan based, 2 Shawnigan Lake and at least 7 Victoria buses that could connect to the E&N. Some of them are double decker buses, but for the sake of simplicity, lets say they are all 80 passenger single level transit buses. That means at least 1,040 people use these buses. There is also about 25,000 vehicles traveling the Malahat. It could be imagined 10% of these could come off the highway with a train that runs at about the same time as the cars. Assuming those vehicles are single occupancy, which most likely are not, 10% of 25,000 is 2,500. So, with the Dayliner, we can assume about 5000 people could use this if not higher. That is more than the 2000 people the West Coast Express has.