The Great Canadian Transit Thread - Page 89

Rusty van Reddick · #**1761** Posted **Oct 22, 2012, 4:55 AM**

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Originally Posted by dleung

you can't deny the fact that stations like 69th street and Sirocco are located in the middle of nowhere.

You've just graduated to "troll." Weren't you banned from SSC for this sort of crap?

Chadillaccc · #**1762** Posted **Oct 22, 2012, 5:17 AM**

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Originally Posted by logan5

Question - Has a new set of tracks been built for LRT West? The figure I have from Calgary Transit says that the peak load for all 3 lines is 17 000 people in the peak hour. Is all this load carried on the one set of tracks on 7th Ave., or is there another transit corridor that I'm not seeing on Google Earth?

Edit: It looks like all the lines converge on 7th Ave., including the new LRT West.

It's actually two lines Logan, the 201 goes from Crowfoot in the NW to Somerset Bridlewood in the South, and the 202 goes from Saddletowne NE to 69 Street W.
Both lines go through the 7th ave transit corridor, but there are plans to put the 201 underground through the downtown under 8th ave starting sometime in the 2020s. The 203 which will be the North Central to South East line will be underground through downtown all the way to 15th avenue when it is built in the 2020s as well. It should be UC within this decade though, at least the SE portion.

nname · #**1763** Posted **Oct 22, 2012, 5:18 AM**

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Originally Posted by logan5

Question - Has a new set of tracks been built for LRT West? The figure I have from Calgary Transit says that the peak load for all 3 lines is 17 000 people in the peak hour. Is all this load carried on the one set of tracks on 7th Ave., or is there another transit corridor that I'm not seeing on Google Earth?

Edit: It looks like all the lines converge on 7th Ave., including the new LRT West.

All 4 lines use the same track in Downtown. Although 2 lines come in from the east and 2 from the west, which helps spread out the load.

As for the ridership, the load is different for each of the lines. Currently, the south line got the highest ridership and the west line is projected to have the lowest. The total passengers over the peak hours (3 hours time frames from 6am to 9am and 3pm to 6pm) for each of the 3 lines is:

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		 AM	 PM
South		19000	17000
North East	12000	12000
North West	11000	12000

The projection for the new West line is 8000-9000.

The peak-15 minutes load for each of the line coming into Downtown in the morning is 2,600 for the South, 1900 for North East, and 1800 for North West line. The peak hourly load for the South line is around 9000 pphpd, and there's no detailed data for the other two lines.

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logan5 · #**1764** Posted **Oct 22, 2012, 5:35 AM**

OK Thanks, last few posters.

Does the 7th Ave transit corridor have signal priority for the trains, or are the frequencies too high for signal priority in the downtown core.

I've never been able too get a good answer about how effectively signal priority works - are trains able to travel from station to station as if they were grade separated using signal priority, especially in an urban environment like DT Calgary. Maybe somebody knows an example of a system that uses signal priority effectively.

dleung · #**1765** Posted **Oct 23, 2012, 12:34 AM**

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Originally Posted by ZeDgE

You have a strange definition of "middle of nowhere".

There is clearly housing developments on either side of that picture, with many under construction. Its likely the stations are also based on future growth patterns in the area.

In the context of rapid transit, uh yeah, it's the middle of nowhere. If you think light rail to service future single detached neighbourhoods is a good use of transit dollars, than more power to you

Logan5 made the same point, but in much less definitive terms, hence Rusty didn't go after him with his uneducated personal attacks.

Chadillaccc · #**1766** Posted **Oct 23, 2012, 1:06 AM**

The Kitchener Transit Hub at King and Victoria with some future concept plans. The hub will tie in Via rail, GO rail, and Light Rail. Expected completion is 2017, same time as the KW LRT.

http://www.regionofwaterloo.ca/en/ge...tionBoards.pdf

http://www.regionofwaterloo.ca/en/ge...esentation.pdf

KWC by Chadillaccc, on Flickr

vid · #**1767** Posted **Oct 23, 2012, 1:19 AM**

King Victoria, haha.

Chadillaccc · #**1768** Posted **Nov 4, 2012, 6:59 AM**

Progress on Chinook's new station house.

photo (2) by Chadillaccc, on Flickr

kwoldtimer · #**1769** Posted **Nov 4, 2012, 1:54 PM**

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Originally Posted by Chadillaccc

The Kitchener Transit Hub at King and Victoria with some future concept plans. The hub will tie in Via rail, GO rail, and Light Rail. Expected completion is 2017, same time as the KW LRT.

http://www.regionofwaterloo.ca/en/ge...tionBoards.pdf

http://www.regionofwaterloo.ca/en/ge...esentation.pdf

KWC by Chadillaccc, on Flickr

The Transit Hub will also be the inter-city bus terminal and will of course be served by Grand River Transit.

srperrycgy · #**1770** Posted **Nov 8, 2012, 3:40 AM**

The City of Calgary made the official annnouncement today that the West LRT line will be open on December 10th.

Some background info on the line from The City:

• Video Link

Chadillaccc · #**1771** Posted **Nov 9, 2012, 5:14 PM**

Pretty cool.

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Originally Posted by Witty Nickname

Go West Young Man by Witty nickname, on Flickr

red-paladin · #**1772** Posted **Nov 9, 2012, 6:32 PM**

The West LRT station designs are just as nice, if not better, than the Millennium Line in Metro Van.

Xelebes · #**1773** Posted **Nov 16, 2012, 5:25 PM**

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Originally Posted by Nouvellecosse

It's a city now? I always heard it referred to as a town...

It is legally a hamlet.

Xelebes · #**1774** Posted **Nov 16, 2012, 6:12 PM**

Some councillor(s) in the Wood Buffalo County Hall is making noise about getting LRT in Fort McMurray. The city is very narrow, following the river and the highway making the highway very congested.

Chadillaccc · #**1775** Posted **Nov 16, 2012, 7:06 PM**

Well I think they are moreso talking about building a lightrail line from the airport to the industrial areas of the city.

Nouvellecosse · #**1776** Posted **Nov 16, 2012, 7:14 PM**

It's a city now? I always heard it referred to as a town...

Chadillaccc · #**1777** Posted **Nov 21, 2012, 7:38 AM**

Uhm really? Its been the Fifth largest urban area in Alberta for like 10 years... and by 2030 they're projecting it will have over 130 000 people... so nope. Most cities of 70 000 aren't referred to as towns, though it looks acts like a town still, but hopefully not for much longer, even right now they have a couple high rises UC.

Edit: oh and the shadow population of Fort Mac is only 2 100... so for everyone thinking "Fort Macmurray doesn't have a permanent population"... it's actually Fort Chipeweyan and the rest of the rural service area that has the transient population as the combined permanent population of both those areas is only 4 200, with a shadow population of over 32 000. The combined total population for the whole Wood Buffalo Regional Municipality is 102 000, with 70 000 being permanent residents.

Chadillaccc · #**1778** Posted **Nov 21, 2012, 7:40 AM**

Ps. Glass has now been installed on Chinook's new station house!

Chadillaccc · #**1779** Posted **Nov 22, 2012, 5:26 AM**

Calgary's West LRT, opening in 19 days.

• Video Link

eemy · #**1780** Posted **Nov 22, 2012, 12:45 PM**

Looks great!