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Originally Posted by MasterG
One of my pet peeves with Transit - likely not unique to Calgary's agency - is they seem incapable, unwilling or oblivious to make changes quickly. I understand they are funding constrained, and have mandated coverage rates and specific requirements that hand-tie them, but surely all agencies have the same problem? It's not like they don't know what to do, they have excellent planning and wish-lists compiled of all sorts of useful projects.
An example is the 4th Street SW transit-only lane. Received approval over a year ago, after a few years of internal discussion, but no direction on timelines to implement. I had to follow up with my Councillor directly to find out what the delay was. Turns out decided to wait a bit longer and see how the 5th Avenue lane-reversal pilot works out (never mind it is a completely different orientation and traffic pattern and includes all cars not just buses). So another year until they think about it again, + design and build time. We might not see the southbound lane for 4 or 5 years.
It's relatively such an easy win for transit for such a little cost, it boggles my mind that it and other simple win projects (i.e. all door boarding, stop spacing optimization etc.) don't get looked at closer.
I can understand why mega-corridors like the WLRT and SELRT take a few decades to implement, but how can an approved lane take this long?
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They are also afraid to take chances on certain things that may result in adoption pains. From each train station, there are multiple buses that leave the station and travel the exact same route for kilometers to a particular point where they diverge into routes which snake through a particular section of a neighbourhood. Why have so many buses wasting their time going between the train station and the diverging point?
This is purely because (I believe) Calgary Transit believes that transit users will not accept a transfer between buses on their way to a train station. An articulated bus going back and forth along a main corridor towards a train station, supported by community routes using the same number of buses on a far shorter route would be far more efficient. I bet people would get used to such a bus map in short order, but I feel like CT views a change such as this as too drastic.
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