Quote:
Originally Posted by fusili
One potential issue I can see is the imbalance of ridership between the two legs. SELRT advocates will dislike this, but the 301 has far, far, far more ridership than the 302. If integrating the routes results in tons of empty buses running in the SE, is the increase in operating costs worth the slightly more convenient single seat trips for the few who need it? A transfer downtown is acceptable in the short term, IMO.
|
What if only a portion of the busses running the route did the complete route and the rest short-turned downtown?
Quote:
Originally Posted by simster3
This might be a stupid question, but one thing I keep hearing about subways vs LRT is that subways can hold a lot more people. What is stopping a city like Calgary from building stations 200m long and running 8 cars like a subway does? I ask this in relation to the announcement in Toronto today for funding from the Federal Gov't that will allow them to build a subway extension.
|
The equipment will be a major issue. The light in LRT and heavy in heavy rail refer to the capacity of each technology. Consequently, for Calgary to mimic Toronto's system they would essentially have to change technology to a heavy rail system and that would require a lot of physical modifications (i.e. grade separation).
Quote:
Originally Posted by floobie
So: Is it just me? If not, are they working on this? I mean, I'd frankly rather they just turned all that stuff off until it's working properly.
|
I'm actually a bit concerned with their reliability. With the system CT is using it should be getting better with age but it's progress has stagnated at best and possibly regressed at worst.
Threaded Mode