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Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm
Greenline is replacing all transit along this route IIRC, not just the BRTs. They can't have those sizeable gaps or it's a massive failure. These are low floor trains and will have much smaller stations. It would be pointless to miss all those users with limited stops. There won't be an massive Park and Ride structures in the areas we're talking about here. |
Time to downtown will be a major determining factor in the usage of the train. You aren't missing out on users you get different users.. You are marginally increasing the walk or bus time to get people to a station while decreasing the train transit time for every rider. The lack of park and rides shouldn't have an impact on spacing as they represent a small portion of the users.
1 mile is not sizable. Just look at the southern half of the route. Calgary C-train has world class ridership numbers because it is so advanced for a city of its size. The system got to where it was by making prudent low cost decisions that accomplished 90% of the goals.
It goes beside rather than through the university, above ground downtown, at grade crossings and so on. These cost saving choices and prudent decision making led to the system the way it is now.
The green line got to expensive, it's time to take a hard look at the design and cut a billion dollars from the 7 budget billion TIC.