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Originally Posted by CanSpice
I was in Portland last week, waiting for the Max downtown, and I had to wait 15 minutes for one to come at 4 in the afternoon on a weekday. With that sort of frequency a B-Line would do better.
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To be completely fair, LRT doesn't have to have such low frequencies. There are a whole lot of other reasons why it's terrible though.
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Originally Posted by Shift
^Doesn't sound much worse than SkyTrain on a weekend. Typically a 10 min wait for one at Surrey Central on any given Saturday or Sunday. The platform is usually crowded by the time a train comes and is standing room only from the get go.
Weekend volumes on Skytrain are approaching weekday peak levels yet TransLink continues to operate on reduced service, and run what seems to be majority older trains. Not sure what the point of more buying more/new trains is if theyre just going to sit at the maintenance yard when demand is high.
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Actually weekend volumes on SkyTrain are approaching weekday
off-peak levels, but yes, the service is still reduced compared to that. TransLink has acknowledged this in their latest Transit Service Performance Review: Page 20-21 (
http://www.translink.ca/-/media/Document...sit%20Service%20Performance%20Review.pdf). Whether anything is done about this is a different matter.
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