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Originally Posted by lrt's friend
The problem is not the lack of articulated buses, it is providing frequent service on main routes in central parts of the city. 15 minute frequency is not good enough especially when bunching occurs due to traffic congestion and you end up waiting 30 minutes. Experiencing these kinds of delays makes you think twice about using transit especially if a transfer is required. It is time to offer guaranteed 10 minute frequency on the most important routes.
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A good chunk of what throws these main routes off schedule is the dwell-time problem. That could be significantly amelioriated using POP service on artics, but OC Transpo refuses to do so, refuses to admit there's crowding or scheduling problems in the inner city, and keeps believing, like some superstition, that splitting more and more of those inner routes will magically solve the problem like so much pixie dust.
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We also need to forget about the urban/suburban divide.
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Why? OC Transpo and the city don't: they keep inflicting crappy service on older, central neighbourhoods.
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Now that we have chosen the conversion route, we need to go full speed ahead and convert as much of the Transitways as possible, otherwise, we have the worst of both worlds.
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And in the meantime, relatively easy and cheap improvements to inner-city service keep getting shunted to the backburner by transit planners and city bureaucrats who drive to work.
What is it going to take for inner-area residents to be heard?
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