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Originally Posted by madog222
Beedie is funding new bus service until 50% of the development is complete, ridership at that point should sufficiently support the route. The plan is for 30min service frequency giving 15min service combined with the 159.
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The net sq ft (all uses) are similar for River District, though considering only residential, River District is about 2 mil. sq. ft. larger.
Also, using the TSPR,
100 bus also has a current population catchment of 59,000, and has more room to grow around Marine Dr (eg. Champlain Heights, Big Bend) and had a peak of around 10 min pre-River District.
159 has a peak of 30 min and a residential catchment of 40,000.
You're going to increase that to maybe 50,000 (5,000 homes), increasing service on 159 to maybe 15 min at peak by including industrial growth (which is still not great- you'd want 10 min at peak for frequent service).
Also, the fact the developers have to
subsidize bus services is the problem here.
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Originally Posted by FarmerHaight
791 and 159 both stop at United/King Edward. 791 is 20 peak/30 off-peak and 159 is 15 peak/30 off-peak and both could conceivably come more often if this development leads to more demand.
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791 is peak-only, which I don't count because they aren't reliable services.
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