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Originally Posted by GirlySports
2 and 3 are definitely concerns that have to be ironed out.
I don't think the Coach Hill thing will be too bad. Sure there was a bus straight from Patterson to 9th Ave but it took 30 minutes on a good day. Any snow or black ice and that bus was dead.
The new 93 doesn't have to go down the hill, it cuts right across to 69th Street Station, hop on the train and zoom 15 minutes downtown, I think it'll be much better!
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I just think that it will be something that comes up and will get some media attention.
To be honest though, I think there's some legitimacy to the Coach Hill issue. The transfer at 69th Street will of course be far and away a better solution on snow days, but there's a whole lot of the year that isn't a snow day, and in those cases, there is certainly an argument for something else.
The issue revolves around this concept: the scale of the portion of the trip spent heading away from the direction of the destination (i.e. from Bow Trail to 69th Street Station) is comparable to the trip that would otherwise be traveled in the direction of the destination (downtown). Unlike the deep south, the far northeast and the far northwest, the west side communities that use feeder buses to the furthest-out west LRT stations are close to downtown. The feeder bus model model starts to break down once you get further from the station, which is the case for Coach Hill.
I think that if there is to be a change, it will be that a Coach Hill feeder bus will make its transfer at Westbrook Station instead. Therefore, once it gets out of the (terribly-and-embarrassingly-designed-and-located sprawl suburb - sorry had to take the shot) community, it will travel primarily in the direction toward the destination until it hits the higher-order level of transit - which is at Westbrook Station. Not that I think this will happen for sure of course - we'll have to see how the thing works in real life and what the trade-offs are.