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Originally Posted by jhausner
Let's not bicker about distance because I just punched in Coquitlam Center to the Arena spot and today Google says 17km. SO it's different than what it told me the first time and what it just told you.
I said I stood corrected so quite honestly, pound sand.
*sigh* I'll take your word for it since the large portion of Coquitlam itself is closer to Coquitlam Center than Lougheed and Coquitlam doesn't seem to publish any population by neighborhood numbers so you're really just making the above up unless you can show me some stats to the contrary.
Really? Last I checked Google travel times are actually based on a lot of factors including actual travel times, current traffic, real-speed, and up-to-date information pulled from active Android devices traveling the route in addition to simple speed limits. Case and point, my Garmin says it should take me 45 minutes to drive from my house to my work every day because it follows speed limits and the SFPR is 80. But everyone drives 100+ and my Android Phone aka Google says it should take me about 31 minutes. It on average takes me between 28 and 32 minutes so Google is far more accurate.
What makes Google not accurate overall is that it tells you travel time "now" aka with traffic. That means the travel time will change throughout the day. If you look up a route during rush hour it will give you a different travel time than if you look at it at say 2am on a Saturday morning. My Garmin however will always give you the same travel time because it only looks at speed limits (I don't pay for the traffic service).
And if you read my post I kind of pointed that out fairly clearly in my analysis referencing the potential error.
That said, I pretty clearly said I stood corrected on my claim it is closer to LEC so again some pounding and some sand. |
I'm not making anything up. Actually, only a small portion of Coquitlam is located close to Coquitlam centre. Port Coquitlam is a mere few blocks east and Port Moody is just down the road so actually, only a tiny part of Coquitlam is located around Coq. Centre. Google and set of relatively working eyes shows me that so no figures are needed. Pick any Coquitlam address that's not immediately adjacent to Coquitlam Centre, and you'll see that the distance between the two arenas (and in particular travel times since its such a fan favorite) is drastic. So unless you live immediately adjacent to HWY 7 you will have to deal with city streets (including lights) which blows any time gained travelling on the HWY 7 immediately. In fact, if you take the Coquitlam Adanac's home arena, the distance to the Langley Events Centre even when measured by time is twice as long (if not even more depending on the route taken, with some being almost
3X as long) if you use the Golden Ears Bridge. (35km 45 min to LEC, vs 12 km or 21 min to proposed Surrey Arena site). No amount of wishful thinking is going to change that. If anything's "made up" its the notion that Langley is somehow closer to Coquitlam than Surrey is (which it isn't)
Now, as for google, like I said they skew towards the highway driving since they base on speed limits. A car travelling on a city street may have left for a destination 4 minutes before another, yet it catches a couple of lights while the car that left later doesn't, and they end up at the destination at the same time. I too have a GPS (a Tom Tom) and it used it in the US and it has told me to head to backtrack to the highway even though my final destination was almost within eyesight and the city roads were largely empty. The distance between 2 structures does not change and is impervious to variables, while measuring travel time is less accurate. But regardless, even WITH taking all that into account, unless the Langley Events Centre grows some legs and walks itself to a more convenient location, the distance from Coquitlam to the proposed Surrey site is CLOSER.
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