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Originally Posted by boogerz
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.
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 |
We could approach 2M with either:
4.5 legs (but maybe it’ll even be a full 5 by then!), only the lowest ridership one being in a tunnel
Or
6 legs. Maybe the green line is elevated or not connected. If necessary there is capital available to tunnel the busiest line