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Originally Posted by TbayON
For sure rail is safer. However, its not going to be feasible for this development as the LNG plant is being built about 20 km north of Nipigon, away from the CP mainline.
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Not every community has a siding, either. For people further away, you'll still need trucks to move it to the end users.
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Originally Posted by Dengler Avenue
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Originally Posted by TbayON
I hear lots of complaints about the bus system in Thunder Bay, and how cumbersome and time consuming it can be if you have to travel anywhere near the peripheries of the city. Its going to be a challenge for transit, we don't have the density needed in most of the city.
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I was discussing this with a friend the other day, he grew up here but now works for Grand River Transit. He said the current plan is not only poorly conceived, it could be potentially unworkable. There is clearly an error in the math, somewhere.
Here is a frequency map of the routes. The thick pink lines are 15 minute frequency, the medium light blue lines are 30 minute frequency, and the thin dark blue lines are 60 minute frequency, during the full service day:
Fort William gets totally fucked over by this plan, and no one seems to understand why. The Mainline has been split up into several routes, so a trip to Port Arthur for me is now going to involve 3 different buses. Links between downtown Fort William and the college are now gone, connections between Northwood and Downtown Fort William are gone, service to Balmoral Park is gone, service along Fort William Road is gone.
It's an absolutely horrible plan. You can tell they didn't use any outside consultants to come up with this. The Mainline between Intercity Mall and Downtown Port Arthur is often quite busy, and they've eliminated it entirely while maintaining the same frequency on the Memorial route, which is already at its capacity, meaning that we will have buses on that route turning people away due to overcrowding, at least until people abandon transit, like I did after they fucked with evening route frequency and transfer timing in 2013 making the system nearly unusable after 6pm.
A big part of the problem is that most new transit riders are university students, but they're all accessing the system with their U-Pass, which doesn't bring in enough revenue to actually cover the cost, so non-student parts of town are being sacrificed to serve them. It's shifting from an Intercity Shopping Centre customer delivery service to a Lakehead University student shuttle service.