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Originally Posted by accord1999
The Red Line isn't running 4-car trains because of upgrades to Haysboro, despite record CTrain ridership (I assume that most ridership gains are off-peak and weekends and WFH has reduced rush hour):
https://www.calgarytransit.com/plans...Expansion.html
Given the low ridership estimate of the SE LRT (2-car trains with about 500 passenger spaces at 8 minute frequencies), there likely is enough capacity on 7th Avenue when 4-car trains are available. It won't be pretty, but the alternative is needing another $2B. |
I mean, I was on the train platforms at 10 this morning, theres a train on every block already. There's isn't room for more trains.
And we can't plan for opening day ridership, we have to plan for ridership at full buildout.
We HAVE to have a new ROW downtown, and not just to the edge of downtown. The whole point of getting all of this money was to build the expensive and hard part, to which adding extensions is fairly easy.