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Originally Posted by kevinbottawa
I'm not sure how water taxis work, but couldn't they start the first trip two hours prior to the game? Three boats running for two hours could carry a decent amount of people. And who knows if they're even using all the boats they own? Perhaps their fleet is bigger than three boats? Even though there may be faster ways to get to games, like walking for some, I'm sure a lot of people would love the experience of a relaxing boat ride to a game.
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Paul's boat lines only has 3 boats on the canal. Check their website. Boats are expensive. Nobody is going to buy one or two or seven just to service major events at Lansdowne and unlike a coach or minibus you can't use it elsewhere to drive seniors to Syracuse or high school kids to the ski hill. There's a reason they charge $20 a ride. They need to recoup their costs.
Elsewhere on this thread people have imagined that you could get from Rideau to Landsowne in 20 minutes by boat. That may be the transit time, but as anyone who has flown on a regional flight knows, time in the air is a small portion of the trip. For boats you have to check tickets, load the boat, give the safety lecture. There's a similar rigmarole at the other end, you don't just teleport 50 people on an off a boat simultaneously. That's why it takes an hour and remember, that's an hour to the event and an hour after the event. Yes, people might like a nice relaxing ride to the game, but not as many want that nice relaxing ride back. That's why you see such an exodus in the third period of hockey game.
So there's a limited number of people who will trade the travel time for some food and a party atmosphere, but it's impact on the overall transit plan will always be infinitesimal.
We should be talking about how they are going to achieve the very ambitious cycling share. Here's an old Spacing article that outlines the challenge:
http://spacing.ca/ottawa/2011/12/01/the-cycling-lansdowne-situation-in-short/
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