In contrast the west line serves an almost entirely and predominantly affluent residential catchment area save for a small academic cluster at 69th Street, a dying small shopping centre in Westbrook and by proxy MRU. The west line should have respectable peak hour, peak direction ridership but off peak ridership will be pretty low.
Here's an interesting video. This is the operator's point of view while bringing a train "online" into service at Anderson Garage. You get a bit of an inside look at the garage and yard.
The video was taken in 2008 on this particular operator's last day before retiring.
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^It's in the pilot phase right now. I am participating in the pilot and have a card. Bugs are being worked out as the participants use their cards and report issues with particular readers, types of cards (the cards were issued in several formats), etc.
Seems the vast majority of readers do work properly.
As far as I'm aware full rollout to the general public is still slated for this summer.
Can't wait to avoid the usual trek to safeway or a 7-11 for passes... Now if only they can get a zone system in place vs the postage stamp system now, would make it way more equitable for us inner city types.
Now if only they can get a zone system in place vs the postage stamp system now, would make it way more equitable for us inner city types.
It could be argued that this already exists, albeit in a non-geographically-discrete way. There is the free-fare zone of course, but if a trip will take you more than 90 minutes before you get to your final transfer, you have to pay double the fare.
Also, it contains confirmation that the official revenue opening will be August 27th.
Saddlemont Blvd and Saddlebrook Drive both still need to be completed before buses (or any cars for that matter) can actually drive those routes. That shouldn't be a problem though to get done before August.
Not many permanent changes to note. Most of the changes being made are cutting scheduled runs that helped to deal with the school rush, and will be back in the fall.
Route 406 Silverado will have its route altered to go further in to the community.
Route 402 Auburn Bay will have its service hours and timing extended to better serve the new South Hospital.
Perhaps the most notable thing about this service revision is that it will be the last one before the NE extension goes into service which will bring with it a lot of changes (as detailed in YNAT's post above).
Anyone know the story behind this? I saw it on Twitter last night...
It would have been great to hear what the driver was thinking as he approached this: "####, not again. Dispatch, we have an upside down car on the tracks again."
^ Drunk driver thought it would be a great idea to drive down the tracks from the previous intersection instead of down the road. He hit a pole, and flipped over.
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Anyone know the story behind this? I saw it on Twitter last night...
It would have been great to hear what the driver was thinking as he approached this: "####, not again. Dispatch, we have an upside down car on the tracks again."
Weird... dude in the behind the person with the backpack looks like he is pointing a gun at the photographer.
Calgary transit commuters could be paying more to ride during peak times and over longer routes to make up for funding cuts.
And that $3 park-and-ride at LRT lots council scrapped last year? That might be coming back, too.
The recommendations are coming forward in a report Wednesday, warning that Calgary Transit needs an additional $756,400 annually to replace hours cut in service in March, and an additional $3.2 million to service areas with little or no transit.
“Overall, demand for transit service in residential growth areas is outpacing funding support,” the report reads.
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Most of the cut was hours from smaller community shuttles, no?
