The Great Canadian Transit Thread - Page 260

1overcosc · #**5181** Posted **Nov 2, 2014, 2:22 AM**

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Originally Posted by manny_santos

Kingston Transit has picked route numbers 701 and 702 for the next phase of its express service. Surprising they didn't pick 503 and 504, but perhaps they wanted to minimize confusion with 501 and 502.

Ew, seriously? That's going to confuse so many people...

I've never been a fan of the 501/502 numbering. The 501 and the 502 are literally the same bus route. It's a circular route and 501 is the clockwise direction, 502 is the counterclockwise direction. So route 501 and route 502 are technically unidirectional routes.

701 and 702 numbers are going to make people think that 701/702 is a single circular bus route as well... even though both are unidirectional routes. And what about 600x? They're just skipping over those numbers?

Chadillaccc · #**5182** Posted **Nov 2, 2014, 8:16 PM**

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Originally Posted by Allan83

Yeah, but Okotoks is twice the size of Rockland, so even if the percentage of people who work in Calgary is lower there are still probably enough of them.

That makes sense.

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Originally Posted by ssiguy

Kind of silly that Okotoks, Cochrane, and Chestemere already don't have some sort of connecting buses to Calgary as they are really just commuter towns.

For Okotoks and Cochrane, it might have to do both with how fast each city has grown, and also how extensive Calgary's LRT is. We have park and rides at LRT stations literally all the way to the northwestern and southern boundaries of the urban area, so it's just really easy for people to drive in and take the Ctrain from the stations at the city border. Also due to the rapid growth of these communities, from towns of less than 5 000 twenty years ago to cities of 20 000+ now, there wasn't demand for a commuter transit system until recently. Alberta also doesn't have the greatest track record of government support for transit projects

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goodthings · #**5184** Posted **Nov 6, 2014, 5:22 PM**

Mississauga Transitway: http://www.mississauga.ca/portal/miway/transitwayopenhouse

Open house will be on November 15th, running from Square One to Dixie Station. Hurontario LRT models will also be on display. And finally they will give a free ride for the first time since they changed their fare policy during Canada Day.

First day of service on the 17th to be used by three routes.

Sadly no Sunday service. Sunday service will have to wait until the entire transitway from Winston Churchill to Renforth is complete.

caltrane74 · #**5185** Posted **Nov 7, 2014, 1:29 AM**

More New Streetcars coming to Toronto today!!

God, I love these Streetcars!!
https://scontent-b-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hpho...25237900865262_9038678498599043491_o.jpg

From StreetcarTO Facebook

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GlassCity · #**5186** Posted **Nov 7, 2014, 1:35 AM**

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Originally Posted by goodthings

Mississauga Transitway: http://www.mississauga.ca/portal/miway/transitwayopenhouse

Open house will be on November 15th, running from Square One to Dixie Station. Hurontario LRT models will also be on display. And finally they will give a free ride for the first time since they changed their fare policy during Canada Day.

First day of service on the 17th to be used by three routes.

Sadly no Sunday service. Sunday service will have to wait until the entire transitway from Winston Churchill to Renforth is complete.

Thanks for posting this! I draw rapid transit maps of all the cities in Canada, and it's so hard to find stuff for Toronto's suburbs since there's so many of them all with their own transit agency. True BRT is hard to track too.

Beedok · #**5187** Posted **Nov 7, 2014, 1:52 AM**

The blurry nature of that streetcar pic makes it look like military espionage photography or something.

Trans Canada · #**5188** Posted **Nov 7, 2014, 2:58 AM**

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Originally Posted by Chadillaccc

Originally Posted by ssiguy

Kind of silly that Okotoks, Cochrane, and Chestemere already don't have some sort of connecting buses to Calgary as they are really just commuter towns.

For Okotoks and Cochrane, it might have to do both with how fast each city has grown, and also how extensive Calgary's LRT is. We have park and rides at LRT stations literally all the way to the northwestern and southern boundaries of the urban area, so it's just really easy for people to drive in and take the Ctrain from the stations at the city border. Also due to the rapid growth of these communities, from towns of less than 5 000 twenty years ago to cities of 20 000+ now, there wasn't demand for a commuter transit system until recently. Alberta also doesn't have the greatest track record of government support for transit projects

There are private companies that offer commuter buses to these towns - http://www.southland.ca/commuters/ service to Cochrane and Okotoks, and http://www.firststudentinc.ca/calgary-commuter-schedules service to Airdrie, Crossfield, Didsbury/Carstairs, Strathmore/Chestermere.

I wouldn't be surprised if they get some funding from these towns.

Innsertnamehere · #**5189** Posted **Nov 7, 2014, 3:45 AM**

Finally 4404 decides to show up. Its been months since 4403 showed up in IIRC mid July.

Hopefully Bombardier can get on its pace of 3 streetcars a month it needs to meet its deadlines pretty quickly.

thanks for the transitway link, i think i may go to that one.

CanadianCentaur · #**5190** Posted **Nov 7, 2014, 4:36 AM**

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Originally Posted by Beedok

The blurry nature of that streetcar pic makes it look like military espionage photography or something.

Or maybe the photographer had to be quick before security personnel started showing up.

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TownGuy · #**5192** Posted **Nov 7, 2014, 10:16 PM**

Neat. Nice to see an urban GO station. Is there a massive parking lot that we can't see?

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eemy · #**5194** Posted **Nov 8, 2014, 12:11 PM**

The Confederation Line in Ottawa is being excavated in three separate sections, from the east, west and from the centre. They finally broke through between the central and west sections.

http://instagram.com/p/vHLOMWJxew/

caltrane74 · #**5195** Posted **Nov 11, 2014, 8:27 PM**

New Streetcar being unloaded at Hillcrest facility.

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Innsertnamehere · #**5196** Posted **Nov 11, 2014, 9:31 PM**

good, hopefully delivery can ramp up again and we can get to the streetcar every 10 days that we are supposed to be at right now.

also, the James GO garage isn't underground but rather built into the hillside, it will look above ground from the track level but the top deck will be level with street level.

caltrane74 · #**5197** Posted **Nov 11, 2014, 9:48 PM**

If the schedule had been kept, all the Spadina Streetcars would have been delivered by December 2014. - So we are probably looking at May 2015/June 2015 before they all arrive.

13 More to go at about 2 cars per month.

Innsertnamehere · #**5198** Posted **Nov 11, 2014, 10:08 PM**

its supposed to be 3 a month, Spadina was supposed to have 6 on launch august 31st originally, instead they got 2, and went 3 months with only 2.

We will likely see them building spadina until February or March at this point before we start to see them on Bathurst.

The_Architect · #**5199** Posted **Nov 12, 2014, 3:22 PM**

Does anyone have the schedule for when the new streetcars will be implemented along each route? I remember somewhere there was a list of the year each route would get it.

(I'm most interested in the 509 Harbourfront

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SignalHillHiker · #**5200** Posted **Nov 12, 2014, 3:27 PM**

A new campaign launched by our own jeddy1989 to get streetcars back in STJs.

Like it, help a brother out.

We're usually quite good at turning public pressure into action. We got the Downtown West End declared a highrise zone in the new municipal plan.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Bring-Streetcars-Back-to-St-Johns/614540381990094?fref=ts