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Originally Posted by lrt's friend
Right now, we are doing nothing to improve the bus network. We are depending only on rail which offers only a very basic network. We are on the hook with rail and with all the axes to grind between 2006 and 2012, we ended up with a lousy financial deal on rail. This is a major reason for bus cuts because of the capital cost of rail is more than the city can fund.
We cannot turn this around without even a modest plan to improve service on key routes. Yet we see grandiose plans. for Baseline and Merivale where we have to improve cycling at the same time. it is probably a good idea but it inflates the cost and delays transit improvement by years or décades. We need less expensive solutions. Frequency alone will improve transit even if buses continue to bé held up in traffic. Simply, we will reduce transfer wait times which alone will improve travel times. The New Ways to Bus made travel times worse because it added often inefficient transfers. Improved frequency is the simplest way to improve the transit network without enormous capital cost and the years of delays waiting for approval, design and construction .
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To be fair, nothing will get better till construction is done. The question is really about what the feeder network should be like post 2027. And right now, we're on track to have a feeder network with 30 min headways on a lot of routes, which is pretty useless. It degrades the value of the rail network by not feeding enough riders. And then people like you will whine about how much of a waste rail is.
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