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Originally Posted by Kwik-E-Mart
Isn't that traveling in reverse of the morning rush hour traffic, which is from east to west instead of the other way around? Of course your trip would be faster.
Also, the main point of the Evergreen Extension is for faster travel to Vancouver (not just Downtown).
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Exactly!
I dunno why anybody would even think that the 169 is going to be better than the Evergreen Line to get to Coquitlam Central just because of one lucky trip on the opposite side of the traffic flow. Plus the Evergreen Line is not just for faster travel to Vancouver, but also Burnaby, New West and Surrey.
And as already pointed out, they will add stops to the 169. This should serve the local population even better to get people to Skytrain at Coquitlam Central. The 169 is never meant to be a substitute for the Evergreen Line before, now and after. But if people think that they are willing to put up with the Brunette bottleneck on the off chance that they won't get stuck, then go ahead.
Some of us had the unfortunate option to be forced to use only the 169 to get to Skytrain from Coquitlam Central, and would be glad to be rid of that option once and for all come 2016. I dunno why anybody would be against that...
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Originally Posted by nname
I used to take 169 daily, and the trip can take anywhere from 10 to 25 minutes on a normal day. This was before the PMH1 construction, which resulted in a permanent 2-3 min added to the route.
However, the longest trip I had on the 169 is about 1 hour wait plus 2.5 hours on the bus. Even the worse SkyTrain breakdown is nowhere as bad as this.
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I've experienced something similar quite a few times last Fall, and this is why I gave up on transit altogether, until 2016 anyway. The thing is such instances are never in the news, nor it is acknowledged by most forumers when there is a debate regarding Evergreen Line's priority and significance to the region. And yes, it seems ever since the PMH1 "improvements", things have gotten worse.
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