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Originally Posted by fusili
But it is also a bus only road that can be converted easily to rail.
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Supposedly. I'm very skeptical about how well this can actually be executed.
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Originally Posted by polishavenger
I think the 800 lb gorrilla in the room that nobody is addressing is that regardless of the fact that you add a 4th car to the train and run them every 5 minutes, without an express system, you have major inefficiency in the system. Since the vast majority of people along the entire systems are heading to the core, the further this city sprawls, the faster and faster the trains fill up rendering them useless to commuters closer to the core.
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Yup. Seems ridiculous to me that extensions to the northeast, northwest, southeast and south are, according to the plan, to be built well before any substantial transit improvements in the inner city. It's just going to get worse for inner city transit users.
It's ludricrous to me that "the plan" is to build LRT stations in Seton, at 210 Ave S, at 'Northpoint
e' (wherever the hell that is) and to other far-flung locales that might as well be
Bumfuck, Nowhere as far as I'm concerned, while someone living in Altadore has to dick around on a 45 min. long ride on the #7 or #13 bus if they want to take transit downtown.
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