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Originally Posted by Mazrim
You're assuming no growth on the other lines, and no planned improvements in frequency (a key driver to better transit usage). This doesn't sound realistic.
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A lot of the "ROI" folks seem to be overlooking future growth. Calgary's five-minute LRT frequencies during rush hour are adequate for now, but what happens in a decade when our 1.5+ million urban population (i.e. excluding bedroom communities) gets close to or surpasses two million people? By comparison:
- The Skytrain serves roughly 1.5 million people (Zones 1 and 2) and runs as quickly as every two minutes during rush hour
- The TTC metro runs every 2-3 minutes during rush hour in a city with 2.9 million people (excluding the rest of the GTA where the metro doesn't run)
- The STM metro runs every 2-4 minutes during rush hour in an area with 3 million people (Montreal island plus Laval).
Running the entire C-Train through the 7th Ave transit corridor (or even adding a subway on 8th Ave and maintaining two train lines on 7th Ave) is so incredibly short-sighted and ignorant of growth. Not to mention it creates a single point of failure when someone inevitably crashes into the C-train trying to beat the downtown traffic lights...the probability of which will only increase as more people and cars get added to our roads.
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Originally Posted by accord1999
With 4-car trains back, capacity will still be higher that what it is now. Peak hourly ridership today is lower than it was 10 years which is how Transit can get away with running 3-car trains without that much problems. The issue about 7th Av capacity is from 2014 before the significant loss of DT jobs and new commute patterns from COVID wrecked growth projections.
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How did Covid wreck the long-term growth projections? LRT ridership is >100% of where it was pre-Covid and we've have a month or two of all-time high monthly ridership this year.
CTV article because the Calgary Open Data portal is down at the moment