Canada Line | Completed

[Yume-sama]

I'd like to take this time to be captain obvious and point out that London is a bigger city.

Also that there are MUCH more tickets sold for Summer Olympics (7.7 million for 2012) than Winter (1.6 million for 2010).

[Metro-One]

Originally Posted by lightrail
Canada Line ridership was designed for 15,000 people per hour per direction - and that's with full three-car trains running every 2 minutes I think. It's pretty low by world standards.

For example, London is gearing up for the 2012 Olympics with a new Olympic Park at Stratford, east of London. And boy, do they have plans to move people. Trains will serve Stratford on around 8 lines (two underground "tube" lines, two DLR lines, one Overground Line, two Network Rail lines and one international high speed line) with a train arriving every 15 seconds and a staggering capacity of 240,000 passengers PER HOUR (that is not a typo). London plans to move the same number of people to the Olympic site in one hour that Vancouver's SkyTrain carries in 24 hours.

Pretty impressive.

Thats nice, maybe when Vancouver becomes the largest city in Europe, is one of the top economic cities in the world and hosts the "Summer" Olympics we will have that as well. Until then, why are we comparing grapes to watermelons?

[agrant]

Originally Posted by Yume-sama

I'd like to take this time to be captain obvious and point out that London is a bigger city.

Also that there are MUCH more tickets sold for Summer Olympics (7.7 million for 2012) than Winter (1.6 million for 2010).

Captain Obvious, AND Captain Repetition.

[Yume-sama]

Originally Posted by agrant

Captain Obvious, AND Captain Repetition.

At your service

[lightrail]

Originally Posted by Metro-One

Thats nice, maybe when Vancouver becomes the largest city in Europe, is one of the top economic cities in the world and hosts the "Summer" Olympics we will have that as well. Until then, why are we comparing grapes to watermelons?

For fun

Just to place it all in perspective - Vancouver is pretty small by world standards. London has 8 million people, Vancouver 2.2 million.

London has 7,000 buses in peak service, Vancouver has 1,000.

London has more than 90 rail lines with frequent services radiating out of the city (including the underground), Vancouver has 4 (one of which is peak hours only).

London has 694 stations in the metro area, Vancouver has 54 (including WCE to Mission)

Metro London is 1,580 square kilometres, Metro Vancouver is 2,880 square kilometres, of which 1,800 square kilometres is habitable (non-mountainous).

Again - just for fun!

[cabotp]

Well at least we beat them in Land area

That 1,800 sq km of habitable land. Does that include the ALR or is the ALR ont top of that.

[SpongeG]

i think london has more ridership in one day than we get all year

[zivan56]

They must have changed the way the Canada Line accelerates/decelerates near 16th. I can actually hear it from my apartment which is right beside Cambie (although I cannot see the road as there is a building between me and the street). It's getting really annoying when my window is open, as I can hear the wheels grinding against the rails every couple of mins until it stops running.
I can't believe it is that loud considering it is underground...

[vanman]

Originally Posted by lightrail

For fun

Just to place it all in perspective - Vancouver is pretty small by world standards. London has 8 million people, Vancouver 2.2 million.

London has 7,000 buses in peak service, Vancouver has 1,000.

London has more than 90 rail lines with frequent services radiating out of the city (including the underground), Vancouver has 4 (one of which is peak hours only).

London has 694 stations in the metro area, Vancouver has 54 (including WCE to Mission)

Metro London is 1,580 square kilometres, Metro Vancouver is 2,880 square kilometres, of which 1,800 square kilometres is habitable (non-mountainous).

Again - just for fun!

What is Greater London's population?

[agrant]

Originally Posted by zivan56

They must have changed the way the Canada Line accelerates/decelerates near 16th. I can actually hear it from my apartment which is right beside Cambie (although I cannot see the road as there is a building between me and the street). It's getting really annoying when my window is open, as I can hear the wheels grinding against the rails every couple of mins until it stops running.
I can't believe it is that loud considering it is underground...

Must be the venting. I'd find it hard to believe that a lot of sound could penetrate concrete, and everything on top of that.

[zivan56]

Originally Posted by agrant

Must be the venting. I'd find it hard to believe that a lot of sound could penetrate concrete, and everything on top of that.

I don't recall any vents being built around the area. In fact, the closest is a bit above 12th and the next is at King Edward
It may be vibrations through the ground which transfer to the building somehow. I'm used to the sound of hundreds of cars/trucks passing by...but this sound is really distinct.

[mr.A]

what is Canada line's daily ridership now that it is running one month? I was surprised how busy it was last night to YVR and back.

[agrant]

Originally Posted by zivan56

I don't recall any vents being built around the area. In fact, the closest is a bit above 12th and the next is at King Edward
It may be vibrations through the ground which transfer to the building somehow. I'm used to the sound of hundreds of cars/trucks passing by...but this sound is really distinct.

I remember growing up, living a few blocks from Dunbar and being able to clearly hear the buses running in the evening hours. It's amazing how sound can travel. At least it's underground where you are, and not at street level or on a guideway. More reason why underground is preferable to locals.

[CLC]

Originally Posted by mr.A

what is Canada line's daily ridership now that it is running one month? I was surprised how busy it was last night to YVR and back.

no exact # given since the 77,000 average of the first three weeks.

TransLink: People happy with Canada Line
The Canada Line is proving some critics wrong

VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) - Commuters like it -- they really really like it -- TransLink says ridership on the new Canada Line is steadily increasing.

That's despite the 98-B line coming to a complete stop and other bus routes being pulled of the roads to encourage more people to take the line. TransLink says people are happy with the service. Capacity is also now at 80 per cent.

Derek Zabel with the transportation authority says many riders are simply taking day-trips out to the airport. "That has been extremely successful, it's new and it's not going to cost you an arm and a leg to take a cab there. It's only going to be a couple of zones to get over and hit the YVR station, so that's in itself as been a pleasant surprise."

Zabel says they still get complaints from dedicated bus riders, but he's confident eventually people will come around.

[CLC]

I took my first non-weekday ride of Canada Line this evening during 6:30-8pm. While the ridership is very good, the frequency is not if you need to take the specific Richmond or YVR bound ride. The wait time indicated is 10 minutes if you just missed one. Also, MUCH MORE people on Richmond train (either way) than YVR train. I deliberately disembarked at Bridgeport and switched to the train coming from YVR and really see big difference.

public art "bench" outside OV station if it hasn't been posted (My photo):

[SpongeG]

what is OV station?

[mr.x]

Olympic Village

[SpongeG]

would have never guessed

stupid shortenings use the real names

[CLC]

^ is shortening Vancouver City Centre to VCC station (as many do here) also regarded as stupid shortening?

Anyway Since Mr.X already gave the answer I am not going to edit that post

[Yume-sama]

Acronyms are difficult! Especially when only one name can fit it.

Can people actually sit on the bench?