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Originally Posted by Fuzz
The goal with LRT should be to serve as many riders as possible, because that's what it is good at. Building something like the west LRT, or in this case, the south leg didn't make sense then, and it doesn't make sense now. You build where the highest total potential is. As far as I know, that's the north. This provides opex savings and increased ridership, unless it is the unlikely case that current bus service is exactly matching demand.
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Going back to the December 2015 Green Line pitch to council, it was argued that they should skip BRT to go directly to LRT precisely because that Centre Street N ridership would pretty quickly exceed the capacity of BRT.
https://pub-calgary.escribemeetings....=English#38103
Reading through the material, it should have been an easy choice to go North first, when it became clear there wasn't enough money to do both directions. Yet, the fact they chose the SE first, and not even making 16th-Beddington as Stage 2 (even after 2.5 years) suggests that the City planners have little interest in the NC, unless Council forces them to.