Transit Fantasies - Page 116

cganuelas1995 · #**2301** Posted **Jun 18, 2021, 5:40 AM**

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Originally Posted by xd_1771

The 300 (Mark IIIs) that we already have are double-ended and connected with open gangways across all 4 cars. The next-gen 5-car consists we'll get will be the same.

No I mean like all middle cars. The Mark IIIs have those end cars.

Express691 · #**2302** Posted **Jun 18, 2021, 6:40 AM**

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Originally Posted by cganuelas1995

No I mean like all middle cars. The Mark IIIs have those end cars.

Seems like a waste of additional/moving parts to me, just slap that large front window in front.

just say you want a more boxy, big-city subway design and do away with the curved front ends

cganuelas1995 · #**2303** Posted **Jun 18, 2021, 7:13 AM**

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Originally Posted by Express691

Seems like a waste of additional/moving parts to me, just slap that large front window in front.

just say you want a more boxy, big-city subway design and do away with the curved front ends

Totally modular and universal, walk through entire train back to front.

swimmer_spe · #**2304** Posted **Jun 18, 2021, 2:51 PM**

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Originally Posted by cganuelas1995

Totally modular and universal, walk through entire train back to front.

What you mean is something like the Toronto Rocket cars.

officedweller · #**2305** Posted **Jun 18, 2021, 7:15 PM**

Even the Toronto Rocket subway cars have a front and back car with a sloping face.
I think what he means is a flat face with a door to jump out the back -like DB Cooper
- and univeral for marshalling and assembling trains.

cganuelas1995 · #**2306** Posted **Jun 18, 2021, 8:27 PM**

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Originally Posted by officedweller

Even the Toronto Rocket subway cars have a front and back car with a sloping face.
I think what he means is a flat face with a door to jump out the back -like DB Cooper
- and univeral for marshalling and assembling trains.

Exactly.

cganuelas1995 · #**2307** Posted **Jul 7, 2021, 11:28 AM**

https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=1VUHRmflxDomIm7dcopBdgoAVhUpsYvER&usp=sharing

An idea to connect major population centres outside of Metro Vancouver with Vancouver, as a way to fill in for the lack of Greyhound. This also connects to Calgary.

Yes, I know some of them hit areas that have very little population and where everyone drives, but they're just corridors accounting for any possible future.

scryer · #**2308** Posted **Jul 7, 2021, 2:08 PM**

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Originally Posted by cganuelas1995

https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?h...4881245935225%2C-123.11353222922538&z=13

An idea to connect major population centres outside of Metro Vancouver with Vancouver, as a way to fill in for the lack of Greyhound. This also connects to Calgary.

Yes, I know some of them hit areas that have very little population and where everyone drives, but they're just corridors accounting for any possible future.

Perhaps I am the only one, but I am getting an "access denied" page when I click onto it. Are you able to adjust and refresh the link? I would love to check out your work

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swimmer_spe · #**2309** Posted **Jul 7, 2021, 3:03 PM**

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Originally Posted by cganuelas1995

https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?h...4881245935225%2C-123.11353222922538&z=13

An idea to connect major population centres outside of Metro Vancouver with Vancouver, as a way to fill in for the lack of Greyhound. This also connects to Calgary.

Yes, I know some of them hit areas that have very little population and where everyone drives, but they're just corridors accounting for any possible future.

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Originally Posted by scryer

Perhaps I am the only one, but I am getting an "access denied" page when I click onto it. Are you able to adjust and refresh the link? I would love to check out your work

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You are not.

Change it to allow anyone with the link, then repost the link.

cganuelas1995 · #**2310** Posted **Jul 7, 2021, 7:40 PM**

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Originally Posted by scryer

Perhaps I am the only one, but I am getting an "access denied" page when I click onto it. Are you able to adjust and refresh the link? I would love to check out your work

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Thanks for pointing it out. I enabled link sharing and made it public.

https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=1VUHRmflxDomIm7dcopBdgoAVhUpsYvER&usp=sharing

swimmer_spe · #**2311** Posted **Jul 7, 2021, 11:02 PM**

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Originally Posted by cganuelas1995

Thanks for pointing it out. I enabled link sharing and made it public.

https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=1VUHRmflxDomIm7dcopBdgoAVhUpsYvER&usp=sharing

Link works.

As far as routes, I would suggest making certain cities hub cities and have routes fan out from there.

cganuelas1995 · #**2312** Posted **Jul 7, 2021, 11:16 PM**

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Originally Posted by swimmer_spe

Link works.

As far as routes, I would suggest making certain cities hub cities and have routes fan out from there.

Yeah I'll have to figure that out. Might have to go via population or something, maybe reorganize local transit routes in those areas.

swimmer_spe · #**2313** Posted **Jul 7, 2021, 11:33 PM**

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Originally Posted by cganuelas1995

Yeah I'll have to figure that out. Might have to go via population or something, maybe reorganize local transit routes in those areas.

Let's use VI connecting to Vancouver. A bus that goes from Vancouver and does all the island is not ideal. However, having a bus do Vancouver-Victoria, Vancouver-Naniamo, Victoria Port Alberni, and Victoria-Port Hardy would make a lot of sense.

Migrant_Coconut · #**2314** Posted **Jul 8, 2021, 12:48 AM**

Maybe Vancouver-Tsawwassen and Victoria-Swartz Bay. I doubt BC Transit execs wants to pay their drivers to just "sit on the ferry and drink coffee for two hours."

cganuelas1995 · #**2315** Posted **Jul 8, 2021, 1:39 AM**

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Originally Posted by Migrant_Coconut

Maybe Vancouver-Tsawwassen and Victoria-Swartz Bay. I doubt BC Transit execs wants to pay their drivers to just "sit on the ferry and drink coffee for two hours."

Yeah that's what I'm thinking, use the ferry terminals as transfer points.

swimmer_spe · #**2316** Posted **Jul 8, 2021, 1:58 AM**

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Originally Posted by Migrant_Coconut

Maybe Vancouver-Tsawwassen and Victoria-Swartz Bay. I doubt BC Transit execs wants to pay their drivers to just "sit on the ferry and drink coffee for two hours."

Vancouver really needs express buses to the ferry terminals.