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Originally Posted by Corndogger
It's not going to be rush hour only service. Buses will run every 10 minutes during peak times and less often otherwise. How less often will probably determine how successful the route is. Well, that and how congested 16 Avenue is. As far as I'm concerned trying to run an express bus on that road is a big mistake even with priority signals.
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Originally Posted by ClaytonA
99 has very good throughput (ridership) even with limited priority in Vancouver. Do you think they should have built sections of transit way along 16 Ave? 16 Ave could be a really well used route, but I agree this is not enough. Right direction though. Freeway-ification pressures will build on 16 Ave as interchanges happen on the east and west ends of 16 Ave. McKnight's busy. Beddington Trail's busy. Crowchild/Glenmore too.
The east-west travel issue in Calgary is really land use; there is an undersupply of employment in the NW and slightly lesser extent SW. In another post, someone pointed out that despite that (maybe because the market's small) employment, for example office space like at Brentwood's University City, is really hard to get built in the NW while there's lots downtown, south of downtown, and east of Deerfoot.
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I think the rebuild of 16th however many years ago was poorly implemented. I still believe it would have been altogether more useful to have a proper Glenmore parallel there, but even if that is never going to happen the built form of the road is pretty useless. The planters in the median are a waste of space and that space should have been used to widen sidewalks and/or put in transit lanes instead.
There is enough space to put in transit lanes and keep the existing 6 vehicle lanes (albeit narrower) which would allow a proper BRT, but that would now mean ripping up the road completely. Given the glacial pace of development on the road, I'm not sure that would be worth it. We'll have to see how well used the new 'BRT' is.
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