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Originally Posted by Migrant_Coconut
Vancouver’s 15% is down from 21% pre-pandemic; we’re actually under-undercapacity at the moment. On top of that, the Canada Line’s only at ~8,000 pphpd out of a possible 15k, and the Expo and Millennium are at 15k out of 26k (closer to 30-40k now that the Mk Vs are starting to replace the Mk Is). Using your own logic, SkyTrain's ready to handle 36-39% mode share and up, more than Prague... and that’s not counting all the new expansions that’ll take pressure off the current lines.
So Vancouver will be fine. Scatter all the density among a bunch of trolley bus corridors - which have nowhere near the same level of capacity - like you want us to? We’ll be much less fine. Singapore's gotten 42% transit mode share and minimal overcrowding with the same kind of tower hubs.
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Vancouver has no articulated trolley buses with 3 min headways. If you spread something you end up with more dynamic options of handling it at the moment and in the future.
The skytrain lines are nearing capacity and growth is organic and increasing. What this policy tries to envision is triple or quadruple the de sort around the sky train lines. I am not sure if it’s appreciated what that would do and how quickly this would happen. At the expenses of areas that actually can dynamically handle more and help create a city wide transit network that is quick frequent and can handle the capacities by spreading them out.
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