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Originally Posted by timun
A "notion that loads of people in the area were eager to take public transit" was not why it was built. It was built because the road network is as big as it's ever going to get, parking at places like MRU, Rockyview and Heritage Park are limited/expensive, and as the traffic on 14th gets worse—and it will get worse as time goes on—the BRT will be a viable alternative option.
In my opinion the biggest problem with the BRT such as it exists now is not where it goes, but rather how often the bus comes. It's generally once every 10 minutes from 7:00-8:00 am and 3:00-5:30 pm, and every 20 minutes outside of those hours. In practice, from my personal experience as someone who'd need to use it after 5:30 pm, the buses often fail to keep to schedule and those 20-minute headways are more like 30-45 minutes. The system is too unreliable for me to consider using: buses show up too sporadically and waiting time is far, far too long.
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Well, it's both. The frequency is a huge drawback, but like Cliff was saying, my kids take transit for things and have never used it a single time. They go to the train and then to places from there.