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Some major stops were at South Key's Mall, Carleton University and allowed boarding on the bus transit way before the LRT. Isn't useless for the thousand of Ca
by ckdarby 7y ago
Some major stops were at South Key's Mall, Carleton University and allowed boarding on the bus transit way before the LRT.
Isn't useless for the thousand of Carleton students who use it every day.
- francislavoie 7y agoDefinitely, not saying it's not useful, just that I can't make use of it. I'm in the centretown west area, and a Gladstone stop would go a long way in making transit less of a pain for me. That is on the way now, but is still a few years away.
- calyth2018 7y agoIt has significant problem when it come to increasing capacity. Because it's mostly single track, they can't increase the frequency that easily. That leave it to blasting and twining, which will probably wipe out any saving made by reusing that freight line. And extending the platform so that they could tack on more cars when necessary. Line 2's ridership is pretty pitiful in comparison. Daily ridership is 16900 [1]. SkyTrain does 25000 passenger per hour per direction [2]. Outside of the door problems, we're already seeing capacity problems for Line 1 now. Platform gets full, and it is built for the current configuration, so you can't add more cars without major construction (read: service disruptions). This is what happens when we cheap out on infrastructure. We end up paying twice, and getting less for the money. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trillium_Line https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trillium_Line 2: https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/translink-2017-kevin-desmond-canada-line-built-skytrain https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/translink-2017-kevin-desmond...