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Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame
My argument is not against the C-Train. It's against the the idea that it's not going to be packed.
I am aguing a practical load vs. a full load. We seem to be approaching the full load, which is the bulk of my grief in the first place.
But none of us will know until it actually opens. So it's all estimations and hypothetical at this point.
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Keep in mind that a big reason for some of the crowds we have right now has to deal with reliability issues rather than how they ideally plan it. Even the slightest mechanical error in the early morning hours has the potential to mess up the timing between trains and then perpetuates a cycle that leads to massive overcrowding for the entire duration of the rush hour.
I typically catch the train at Dalhousie between the hours of 7:30-8:00AM. On days that I read on twitter that there's been a minor service glitch that has been 'resolved' even an hour or more prior to me catching the train, it seems to push the 'train every 5 minutes' schedule into a 'train every 8-12 minutes' schedule. This is ultimately the difference between standing comfortably and being able to have enough space to read a book, and standing shoulder to shoulder smelling your adjacent nieghbors 'BO' while having no room left for additional passengers past Brentwood station. Thus far this fall these kinds of days where you're getting to your destination 10-15 minutes later than usual on a Tokyo-style packed train have been occuring at least 1 to 2 times a week. I fully expect that once we get the first serious blast of winter this will be almost an everyday norm, as it was last year.