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Originally Posted by jigglysquishy
The City is pushing more and more for a BRT system to connect Blairmore to Downtown to the University to University Heights.
The City's future transit plans are detailed in here. Look at page 28.
An image of potential BRT routes
Are these the best choices? Is BRT the way to go? If so, do times lights? Separate bus lane? Grade-separated bus lane? Mixture?
RT in Saskatoon comes up every few months in the news. It seems more and more likely that the City and the province are at least in discussion about potential funding options. We could be seeing BRT in Saskatoon within 15 years.
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I think the document is quite thorough, biggest problem I see is convincing people it is reliable (given the kinds of labor tactics we see firsthand today) and effective (shouldn't take an hour and a half to get from a residential area to another on the other side of town).
They want to get ridership up from 4% of the total population to 8%, and peak ridership from 10% to 25%, don't see how that can ever happen until its more convenient than driving, so until the surface parking lots are converted to actual desinations that won't happen - and I don't think that necessary lines up with the 30 year timeline. I also don't think the solution should ever be to penalize drivers.
I am convinced BRT is the only way to go, unless the city happens to acquire any of the existing railway corridors, don't think CN is planning on the expense of vacating anytime soon? BRT is the only way I see the transition of current route planning (large loops that all terminate downtown) to the future proposed one you showed (smaller loops that terminate on the RT backbone). The way they utilize the "DART" buses now is akin to a mini RT system, but until the ridership and capacity is up, it just isn't that feasible to upgrade these existing major transit corridors.