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Originally Posted by lrt's friend
If seems to me that our bus network across the board is designed to run on 15 minute or 30 minute cycles. There are very few exceptions.
Why would we not design our trunk line (Line 2) to be in sync with this?
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I mean what you're suggesting is effectively that increasing headways on Line 2 to 15 minutes would actually be better for connecting service than cutting them to 10 or 8 minutes.
Be careful what you wish for?
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What is the alternative? To change bus schedules to run on 12 minute and 24 minute frequencies, so that trains match up better. This would increase the cost of bus service by 20%. And this needs to be city wide, so that bus to bus transfers will also work. Is that going to happen? NO!
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We can make all kinds of statements that bus service is the problem as we prepare to cut service. As a potential rider, that offers nothing.
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I don't know if it's sunk in for you yet that the service levels on Line 2 aren't going to be changing any time soon either.
Yes, that's obviously the alternative. If even you can't be bother to advocate for it, why would anyone else?
As a potential rider, you're offering me even less than what OC Transpo can and that's really saying something here.
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Originally Posted by J.OT13
Thanks for the correction. $800 million. Doubling Walkley would have been a $20-$30 million addition to the project, on $800 million. Savings like removing Bowesville and NOT rehabilitating the Walkley overpass could have mostly covered that. Something very small the City could have done to improve service for existing riders.
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$20-30M is a ballpark estimate from almost a decade ago. It would undoubtably would have cost more than that in the final project, and that's not any better for scope creep than any of the other late additions to the project.
Bowesville might be less necessary now that the entire secondary plan for Riverside South has been urbanized, but axing it at
the time would have been silly.
Yeah, things are so much easier when you ignore all of the annoying constraints that projects like these had to work under in hindsight-- but that's not helpful for any discussion.