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Originally Posted by Ducay
Thats the frequency of the NW/SW line, would it be better to reduce # of Crowfoot trains? Sure it is mentally displeasing seeing other trains coming so much more often, but alas, thats unavoidable. And lineups on platforms? Why do you keep coming back to this argument, which Ive never seen as an issue. Sure they get busy, but we're not talking Tokyo or Mumbai with people smooshed everywhere. Call me when you actually can't move on the platform and people are clinging to the sides of trains just to get off.
Again with the station crowding..... sorry but why would anyone take a train from an early station in downtown (higher chance of getting on or getting a seat), just to go to 7th Station where the NW train would be crammed full? If trains cannot pass each other, there is a zero % chance of getting home quicker by taking a 69th train then swapping to a Crowfoot one, all you do is risk not getting on.
I'd expect most people living beyond 37th St SW actually saved a great deal of time yesterday on the PM commute. Unknown to most LRTers, WB Bow Tr was backed up from Sarcee all the way to 37th Street due to the whole Crowchild mess. So it might have been longer than a normal bus day pre-LRT, it actually saved ~15 minutes by avoiding Bow. Obviously, not every day will be like that, but things have a way of averaging out over time.
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Good sir, all of this could have been solved if they just added a few more trains to the 69th / Saddletowne line, and extended the cars to four. Instead, we now have to wait at least two years for that.
The platforms are going to be packed, and I can guarantee you most users of the West LRT line were not aware of the lack of trains coming downtown on the way home. For one thing, the platform was crowded with people at 545-6, wondering in disbelief why it took almost 15 minutes for a 69th street train to arrive. I was one of them.
How is it that Crowfoot trains are coming every 2 minutes? Further to that, they're not even filling all the seats let alone standing room with that kind of frequency. It's completely unbalanced.
And maybe you can suggest to me why people are getting on the 69th street trains and getting off on 7th avenue. I am at a loss about this as you are, but have Crowfoot line users been doing that when the train was going to City Centre?
Like I said, growing pains. I expect improvements, but I'm just not totally rah-rah happy about the line as you and others appear to be.
As you said, guess I have to live past 37th street to really see the value. That's too far out of the inner city for me though. It really is designed for suburbanites.