Calgary Public Transit - Discussion

[SebC]

Originally Posted by GGG

Burying the 7th Ave line while improving the experience is quite an expensive option in terms of $ per additional capacity.

Well you'd have to buy more cars to realize the benefits, but the 8th Ave Subway roughly quadruples the capacity of the red and blue lines. Doubled once because you're no longer sharing track. Doubled again because you can have lower headways without switching track.

This is unlike certain line planned line extensions that do not increase capacity at all, and merely displace inner city riders.

[GGG]

Originally Posted by SebC

Well you'd have to buy more cars to realize the benefits, but the 8th Ave Subway roughly quadruples the capacity of the red and blue lines. Doubled once because you're no longer sharing track. Doubled again because you can have lower headways without switching track.

This is unlike certain line planned line extensions that do not increase capacity at all, and merely displace inner city riders.

Agreed that the Red line should not expand until the line is buried. But in terms of dollars per rider added it's expensive.

[Wormius]

Is there a plan in the future to see the 3 northern lines connected together in an East-West route, e.g.) a McKnight to North Point to Tuscany?

[You Need a Thneed]

Originally Posted by Wormius

Is there a plan in the future to see the 3 northern lines connected together in an East-West route, e.g.) a McKnight to North Point to Tuscany?

I can concievably see a North central to Airport to NE line, the right of way would be easy, as the city has essentially planned for airport connection from both lines.

Connecting the NC to the NW line, doesn't seem to make any sense, cost wise.

[Madman]

[Fuzz]

They are scraping it? Would have been nice to save this piece of history somewhere. Good ol' Calgary.

[GGG]

Really that should go to the Glenbow, or turn the shell into a concession at some park in the city. It seems like something that should be saved.

[Russic]

"Over here you'll see the spot where people routinely vomited each weekend for about 36 straight years."
*points pretty much everywhere*
"Now... who wants to buy a churro?"

[frinkprof]

2016 Transit Service Review (primarily Northwest Route Network)

I had meant to post about this earlier, but a lot of the bus network serving the northwest and also parts of the Centre City was studied and overhauled as part of the fall service changes.

The old 37/43 and 137/143 northwest loop buses are gone, as is the 145 Northland route. A few of the 400 series community connector routes were worked over as well.

The result is this:



from the Rider's Guide

Operating efficiency was part of the aim here, with some of the new routes being interlined and to iron out some of the kinks with the old network.

Has anyone had any experiences with this new network yet?

I really don't know what to think, or whether this will be more efficient or not. The farther northwest communities frankly don't lend themselves to being effectively served by bus routes due to the curvilinear spaghetti dish layout of the streets, but I'm sure there were some inefficiencies that could be eliminated.

I do like that a big area like this was taken and fully re-worked. I would like to see that for some other large areas of the city, as well as the city as a whole with some of the major trunkline routes (3, 4, 5, 20, 72/73, etc.). I found that in the past too small an area was looked at, or just single routes were changed without looking at how the network worked together as a whole.

[Wormius]

I have an idea for the Calgary Transit etiquette campaign. It's along the lines of those "Don't be a Funky Ferret" PSAs.

"Don't be a Contagious Capybara".

I am envisioning a deathly-ill, anthropomorphized capybara, coughing and sneezing without covering their mouth.

Any graphics designers up for the task?

[Addick]

Originally Posted by GGG

Really that should go to the Glenbow, or turn the shell into a concession at some park in the city. It seems like something that should be saved.

Calgary should really start building toward a Calgary Transit Museum. The Transport for London Museum is a wicked way to spend a day in London.

[PaperBagger'14]

Originally Posted by Addick

Calgary should really start building toward a Calgary Transit Museum. The Transport for London Museum is a wicked way to spend a day in London.

Here's where Glen Gulutzan sat after he got his pink slip on October 24 2016.

[morgin]

Apparently a Ctrain collision this AM. Just heard on the PA.

[calumniate]

Guess they had to pull off the new red trains for now:
http://www.calgarysun.com/2016/10/29...hy-new-ctrains

[Pizza]

"welp! my 12 hour shift is over! time to go home"
*Abandons C-train full of passengers*

http://calgaryherald.com/storyline/c...er-flames-game

Calgary Transit officials are investigating why a CTrain operator inexplicably abandoned his post this week, leaving cars full of passengers stranded after a Flames hockey game.

Passengers say it was after 11:30 pm on Wednesday when a northbound CTrain stopped at Sunnyside Station, located in northwest Calgary. Instead of taking off after a short delay, the train never left the station.

The driver announced over the intercom that he had worked a 12-hour shift and refused to go any further. Bewildered passengers, meanwhile, were left to wonder how and when they’d get home.

“It was kind of ridiculous,” Delday said. “It was late at night, and we were all stuck waiting on the track. It was odd to stop halfway through a route and nothing was really explained. There was no communication.”

Calgary Transit said an internal investigation is currently underway to determine whether the employee in question exceeded a 12-hour shift.

[Wormius]

What's "inexplicable" about that?

[btimbit]

Read that article earlier and really got a chuckle out of the "abandoned his post" line. And really? They've "launched an investigation?" guy didn't like his job so he left, what's to investigate

[Wormius]

I am trying to reconcile the comment from the passenger that nothing was explained and there was no communication, despite the driver coming on the intercom 3 times.

Interpretation: "I had my headphones on, was looking down at my phone the entire 15 minutes, didn't realize we had stopped, wow I am getting interviewed!"

[btimbit]

I preferred the story about the guy who "flew downtown" to rescue his stranded adult daughter from a 15 minute train delay. Being a concerned parent is something I have no issue with, just the way the article is written making it seem like it's a 13 year left alone downtown.

Credit to CT though getting a replacement driver there in 15 minutes seems pretty quick to me.

[calgarygeologist]

Originally Posted by btimbit

I preferred the story about the guy who "flew downtown" to rescue his stranded adult daughter from a 15 minute train delay. Being a concerned parent is something I have no issue with, just the way the article is written making it seem like it's a 13 year left alone downtown.

Credit to CT though getting a replacement driver there in 15 minutes seems pretty quick to me.

Is the guy a CPA? He should have sent the choppa to the Dome to pick up his kid instead of subjecting her to the horrors of CT.