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Originally Posted by para transit fellow
A 350m walk is further than the distance between many of the stops on a regular bus route.
I think the most disappointing aspect of this type of thinking is that it ignores accessibility factors. 350 metre can be a long walk for some Calgarians
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At this point we're weighing the least bad of bad choices. The Jim Gray solution arrives you 3 floors up with another 200 meters to cover horizontally to get to a station where the arriving train will likely be full. Or the 4th St terminus is even longer...
Even in the city's previously approved solution you'd arrive 2 floors down and roughly 200 meters away from a WB transfer.
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Originally Posted by D as in David
More like 700m to get to City Hall station (unless you're a flying crow) plus no one is getting on an inbound train on one of the existing lines at that station in the morning, let alone a significant number of transfers from a train. During the evening rush hour, Green Line riders become riders of the other two lines along 7th to get to City Hall to then walk 700m to the Green Line terminus.
Maybe I'm bonkers, but bringing riders to the outer fringes of the area you're trying to collect and drop off the majority of your riders seems absurd. Maybe they could terminate the East and West legs of the Blue Line at the fringes and use either the imagined bus loop or walk to the nearest station along 7th?
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Why is anyone going to City Hall Station? Are you talking about a 4th St SE terminus (which may end up being an interim reality)? kevman is saying that IF you don't cross the CP tracks (or at least not right away) then it would be good to get to 10 Ave and 1st St SW or even further west