^ solution - increase transit capacity. Obviously, that would be great right this second, but at least a substantial increase is coming with 4 car trains in about 2 years.
^ solution - increase transit capacity. Obviously, that would be great right this second, but at least a substantial increase is coming with 4 car trains in about 2 years.
Looking at CT's ridership though, I don't know that 4 car trains are enough. And after that we're pretty much stuck without the 8th Ave subway.
^I don't think it is earlier than expected necessarily. There was always going to be a period where the Kerby Station was open for a bit before the West LRT proper opened. There will also be a brief period of time where the existing 10th Street Station is closed and the Kerby Station is not yet open. This means the passenger terminus for the northeast line will be at 7th/8th Street Stations for a few weeks.
All that said, I have heard rumours that the West LRT will open as originally planned in December 2012.
I also have an update on the Saddletown extension.
Enmax is currently working on wiring signals, communications, etc. McKnight-Westwinds Station will be closed over the May long weekend to "tie-in" the new extension to the signal system.
Turnover date from Transportation Infrastructure (the business unit that manages the construction of the project) to Calgary Transit is at the end of June. After this, testing, training and commissioning the line and stations for operation will be done. On past short line extensions, this has taken roughly a month. However, the official opening date is September 2012, and if this is the case it will likely coincide with the fall service changes that usually come in the first week of September.
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^I don't think it is earlier than expected necessarily. There was always going to be a period where the Kerby Station was open for a bit before the West LRT proper opened. There will also be a brief period of time where the existing 10th Street Station is closed and the Kerby Station is not yet open. This means the passenger terminus for the northeast line will be at 7th/8th Street Stations for a few weeks.
All that said, I have heard rumours that the West LRT will open as originally planned in December 2012.
Really shows how benefits both health and retirement might be the death blow of TriMET.
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Really shows how benefits both health and retirement might be the death blow of TriMET.
I wonder if Portland's own efforts--and success--in creating sustainable pedestrian-friendly infrastructure has impacted TriMet's user base/revenue notably?
They started construction on this on one last week. Looks like they're leaving that "Speakers Corner" on the SE side there as well. It'll be nice once its spruced up a bit...not the nicest station thats for sure.
It's kind of a stretch to post the following in this thread, but while I was reading the article, I got thinking how cool this would look along, say, Sacree Tr. S.W. between Bow and Glenmore; or along Deerfoot Tr.
Power lines are ugly.
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Leave it to Iceland to have serene beauty such as this. The design firm, Choi + Shine Architects, came up with this, The Land of Giants an attempt to transform "mundane electrical pylons into statues on the Icelandic landscape by making only small alterations to existing pylon design." These designs were submitted as a competition entry in "March of 2008 to Landsnet, Iceland national power transmission company who was working in collaboration with the Association of Icelandic Architects."
Yesterday there was a transit event at the Telus Convention Centre. It was a "customer to customer" engagement event co-hosted by Calgary Transit and the Customer Advisory Group.
It was part of the greater Route Ahead process toward creating a long-term plan and strategy for Calgary Transit. The focus of the event was to get customer feedback on what they would like to see in a transit system in 30 years.
Commuters will have the chance to share their vision of Calgary Transit this weekend in a customer-to-customer setting.
The Calgary Transit Customer Advisory Group, which was started last year and is made up of transit users, will be hosting the event on Saturday.
“It will really be customers-to-customers talking about what they want,” said Theresa Schroder of Calgary Transit.
This weekend will be one of many engagement events planned for this summer as part of transit’s RouteAhead project, which aims to set out a plan for the transit system over the next 30 years.
“We can have a whole bunch of experts come in from around the world and talk about what transit should be…but the mayor, and we agree, thinks that our customers are the experts on our system,” said Schroder.
The turnout was decent. Lots and lots of good discussion and ideas being floated.
I had meant to post about this leading up to the event but I've been tremendously busy with this and other things. If there's other things like this coming up, I'll try to get it out there more.
Feedback and ideas doesn't have to be limited to events such as this though. Some of the things that have been raised in this thread will be in the mix as well. If you have any suggestions or ideas you want to put out, throw them out there.
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