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Originally Posted by westendjack
I'm just wondering how you justify all day electrified service on a route like this.
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In response to this, and a lot of the comments on who this line is serving and density needed on it... and ignoring for a minute the method of construction...
I have to ask why we are looking at this so differently from the 3 (4) existing LRT lines.
They all travel through relatively low density areas that have been slow to increase, they all function both for commuters in far-off suburbs as well as inner-city communities, they all have a mix of trip generators along the way, they all replaced express bus service that had very high ridership and used a lot of buses.... and the list goes on
I don't see why the NCLRT wouldn't, if opened on Centre St today, have equal ridership to the NE and NW lines, at any time of the day, with equal potential to grow. Whereas the Nose Creek LRT might achieve ridership equal to the WLRT on opening day, with no potential to grow, particularly since it would feed into the smaller WLRT and not the longer SELRT which includes the trip generators of Stampede, and the Industrial SE.
To me, there's no question of where to go, just how to get there functionally and without spending more money than needed. And, we seem to have a good list of ideas of how to do that even before the study has been done.
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