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Originally Posted by MarchHare
I don't think anyone disagrees with you that the C-Train downtown is annoying. To build it underground, though, would have cost the City significantly more. The trade-off was between an underground subway with a shorter route or the system we have -- a longer route serving more areas of the city but over-ground. I think the council back when the C-Train was first built made the right call.
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What about a +15 level C-Train? They are finally starting to build some of the west leg above traffic but how stupid is it to have the C-Train slowed down for traffic, to risk deaths of people in cars/pedestrians, etc.
I've used the skytrain in Vancouver/suburbs quite a bit and it is so much more efficient. With no need for operators they can spend more on transit police which ends up enforcing the tickets more and probably gets them more money for transit. With no obstruction due to traffic the whole system runs a lot more efficiently.
Pretty much every European city I visited had a much smarter transit system as well.