Saddletowne and Martindale Extension Opening Celebration
The new northeast LRT extension opens for revenue service on Monday August 27th. There will be a grand opening celebration at Saddletowne Station on Saturday August 25th between 11:30 AM and 2 PM.
The Fall service revisions have been posted and take effect August 27th.
There are lots of changes this time around. Fall usually sees the most changes due to school being in again and often new routes or expanded service is implemented at this time of year. There are also a lot of changes to the network in the northeast due to the nes LRT stations opening.
There is one new route starting up. The route 461 will provide service to the new south hospital and the current terminal of the route 302 southeast BRT. This is a temporary measure until the BRT service itself is extended to the south hospital
As part of the engagement component of the long-term transit plan that is being developed, there is a web-based tool that has been put together where you can toggle on or off any number of options (such as buying new accessible buses, keeping/getting rid of senior's passes, increasing reliability of C-Train cars, etc.) and see the results it would have on the operational and capital costs of the system. You can then send your preferred scheme as feedback to the Route Ahead team.
I know this isn't specifically about Transit, but I was wondering how the bike path experiment on 10th st. was working out, and how the city's bike strategy was going. I see that "traffic Calming" is coming to my road - 8th ave NE - and couldn't help but wonder if a dedicated bike lane, grade separated and all - might be a better fit with this street than your average traffic circle.
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Most of that looks really good. The vast majority of that document shows the same level of traffic lanes, increased parking along the edges, bike paths, and actual pedestrian sidewalks. There are only a few sections where there is a proposed reduction in lanes - and that looks like it was just some out-of-the-box thinking. Reducing lanes is politically toxic, and just plain a non-starter. But most of it was suggesting actually using a lot of that boulevard for something useful.
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I understand the book of ticket thing but when i visited Calgary with my wife we couldn't buy two tickets at once in Washington for example you just tapped on th button two times and paid your 5 bucks.
In addition I was at the LRT and there was a group of 4 people (group) ahead of me and I don't know they were new to Calgary too and they were at both machines trying to buy tickets and were totally befuddled (train was also coming and of course I had to wait. I just think it is goofy that you can't buy 2, 3 4 tickets all at once while you are there as opposed to looking to buy tickets in Adv.
Unless you are buying a monthly pass I don't think there is any discount buying tickets in adv.
But again I am new I am probably wrong. I walk more often then take the LRT
There used to be a small discount for buying booklets of tickets (like $2.40/ticket instead of $2.75). Now they're the same price. The only advantage is being able to validate them and not have to worry about bringing change.
Anywhere else I've been that has a train has a far more advanced system than Calgary does. The ability to use a credit/debit card to buy tickets has been around less than a year and you can't pay in cash.
It seems everywhere but Calgary has a system that allows you to buy multiple tickets at a time (like you've suggested), pay with cash, change, or debit/credit.
I can see not allowing debit or credit as the fees/ticket probably arent worth the hassle. Not being allowed to purchase multiple tickets is ridiculous. I found this out durring stampede and couldnt believe it.
I like the pre pay card that you can swipe that way they bypass the credit/debit fees.
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Macleod Trail is a gear grinder and as much as I support cyclists, if it means taking a lane away from drivers I am strongly against it.
On a even more unrelated note, I have always wondered why 14th st s couldnt eliminate a bunch of lights during heavy traffic periods.
Say Anderson is the only set of lights in the morning. 90+% of traffic has to be headed to glenmore. If you typically use 90th ave or southland you would have to back track a bit. Once you get onto 14th st, you make no left's at southland, 90th, heritge and the hospital. If you need to go left, you take that U turn road at the end of 14th by glenmore and back track. The 5 or so minutes one would spend back tracking seems well worth having free flow traffic (IMO).
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I can see not allowing debit or credit as the fees/ticket probably arent worth the hassle. Not being allowed to purchase multiple tickets is ridiculous. I found this out durring stampede and couldnt believe it.
I like the pre pay card that you can swipe that way they bypass the credit/debit fees.
I am thinking the pre-paid card is the way to go unless the Calgary winter stops me from walking then it will be the monthly pass.
They don't need to remove lanes of traffic to accommodate cycling lanes. The city's own guest-experts have stated this. Narrowing traffic lanes slightly provides more than enough space.
Why they removed a lane of traffic on 10th St. NW, I don't know. But I don't see it flying on Macleod Tr.
I know this isn't specifically about Transit, but I was wondering how the bike path experiment on 10th st. was working out, and how the city's bike strategy was going. I see that "traffic Calming" is coming to my road - 8th ave NE - and couldn't help but wonder if a dedicated bike lane, grade separated and all - might be a better fit with this street than your average traffic circle.
Anyone familiar with the 10th st experiment?
I live right by 10th Street, and I'm a cyclist too. I hate it. As a driver, it just doesn't work right. Traffic is congested needlessly, and I haven't been able to make a left into the alley since the bike lane went in. As a cyclist, its not a great advantage. Plus, the vitriol directed at cyclists on that stretch is kinda scary.
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Anyone who wants to ride a Crowfoot-McKnight train can do so all day Sunday, likewise, anyone who wants to ride a Somerset to 10th Street West train.
Construction work at Chinook means that they are reducing the south line frequency for sunday, and the only way to maintain the frequency on both the NW and the NE line is to mix up the routes.
Reminder that the new NE LRT extension opens up for service on Monday.
Don't be confused when the real time displays show Saddletowne instead of McKnight, and the announcements have changed.
If you normally get on the train at McKnight, and are waiting for a train to go downtown, look north instead of south.
Sort of related, what times do other Park & Ride lots completely fill up? I'm guessing that Saddletowne station might become the first one to fill up in the morning - considering that it's only 110 stalls or so.
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How about instead of saying "look both ways"- they show why you look both ways; that while a NB train has been crossing you might not have seen that a SB train is also approaching.
And explain that the yellow lines are so you don't get schmucked by a mirror.
How about instead of saying "look both ways"- they show why you look both ways; that while a NB train has been crossing you might not have seen that a SB train is also approaching.
And explain that the yellow lines are so you don't get schmucked by a mirror.
If we really need to explain this, we should just give up the whole thing and let Darwin sort it out.
