Calgary Public Transit II

[Radley77]

Thanks folks regarding the retail history at the LRT platforms. I'm actually suprised to hear that they were such bad failures given some of the stations have very high ridership.

If proven commercial, and the benefit to the city would be that it also helps to reduce crime by having more eyes on the platform, then maybe it could be extended to some of the medium ridership stations. Some of the rent collected from the retail shops could be also used to improve LRT service by hiring on some more police to patrol the LRT lines.

The following chart highlights some of the bigger retail opportunities (green and orange) that aren't downtown and have a higher revenue potential.

[frinkprof]

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[DarkKeyo]

Originally Posted by frinkprof

Interesting on the regional transit program. I'm not exactly sure how the 15 LRVs work into the scheme, since they likely won't be able to add trips, nor add LRVs to consists to make four car trains until at least 2014. Truth be told, I'd imagine a lot of those LRVs will end up going toward replacement of old ones, which is needed.

Wow, 100 articulated buses isn't anything to sneeze at. The 80 going to Calgary would triple the current fleet of articulated buses. That would probably facilitate complete operation of the route 3, 301, 302, 305 and then see some inclusion on other routes as well like the 19/119.

Yeah, its interesting, and its good to see that things are moving along. I'm looking forward to the display signs at the LRT stops especially.

As for those LRV's, won't we need more than we currently have or will have in 2012 in order to run 4-car trains anyways?

More articulated buses is good. I find your example of the 19/119 to be an odd first choice for articulated buses though. It doesn't have as much ridership as, say, the 2, 6, 7, etc.... because it has absolutely HORRIBLE frequency. Especially on weekends.

As for retail, the future downtown subway stations could have it built in, like Toronto's do. Although it would be a bit redundant in the station(s) under The Core/Bankers Hall. I do think retail at high-use stations would be used if it was provided...

[frinkprof]

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[Dado]

Originally Posted by frinkprof

Wow, 100 articulated buses isn't anything to sneeze at. The 80 going to Calgary would triple the current fleet of articulated buses.

Hey, maybe you guys will be getting our trade-in artics!

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Update+Transit+committee+votes+155M+contract/2933628/story.html

"[Ottawa] would get a 19-per-cent discount on the 226 buses, which includes a trade-in credit for the [226] older buses [bought between 2001 and 2004], along with a 10-per-cent discount on the 80 buses it’s planning to buy this year."


I figure that some of these 226 buses we're trading in to New Flyer will be ready for use after refurbishing by the time presented in the schedule for your acquisition of 20 next year and 80 the year after since we're going to start taking delivery of the first 80 new ones in August with all 306 (80 additional + 226 replacements) delivered by March 2011. New Flyer has more than enough time to pick off 20 of our best lemons and send them your way next year, and 80 of the best of the rest the year after!

[frinkprof]

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[DarkKeyo]

So, we aren't getting a second U2 put together from the wrecked ones? I'd somehow got the impression that the 4 most recently wrecked trains each had a half that could be used. And that we'd ordered replacements for all 5 trains that were wrecked, which would have given us a net gain of two trains. Guess not...

[frinkprof]

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[DarkKeyo]

^ Thanks for the info. I find it hard to read CPTDB cause there are a lot of threads that are erratically updated, so I miss most of the news from there.

[magnetite]

I heard a rumor about Calgary Transit putting in something at bus stops which tells you when the next bus is supposed to come. Anyone know if or when they might be implementing this? I know there's the Teleride stop number on there, but that's not what I was thinking of. More of an display screen kind of like at the downtown LRT stations.

[frinkprof]

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[Wooster]

Hopefully they can make BRT stops and some other heavily used routes something like this:

[frinkprof]

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[fusili]

Originally Posted by Wooster

Hopefully they can make BRT stops and some other heavily used routes something like this:

For some reason, the image is not showing up on my browser. Anyone else have this problem?

Edit: Fixed. Weird.

[freeweed]

Originally Posted by fusili

For some reason, the image is not showing up on my browser. Anyone else have this problem?

Edit: Fixed. Weird.

Not showing up for me either.

I figure it's about as interesting as this pic though:

[frinkprof]

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[mersar]

There looks to be some form of anti-hotlinking on the site, the URL for the image Wooster posted is http://i.pbase.com/g4/00/116400/2/60282128.VivaBusStop_1.jpg if you want to see it

[fusili]

Originally Posted by freeweed

Not showing up for me either.

I figure it's about as interesting as this pic though:

Now your picture is not showing up. Wooster's only showed up when I attempted to quote his post, and the [IMG ] [ /IMG] brackets appeared in the quote, which let me view the URL directly. Not working for yours though. Can you post the link?

[frinkprof]

Nevermind.

[fusili]

Originally Posted by frinkprof

^Freeweed didn't attempt to post a picture. The non-picture was the joke.

Ah, I get it. Man, I am slow today. Ughhhh, this weather.