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Originally Posted by MalcolmTucker
The key is that from Shepard, the lrt trip time will be much much faster due to all of the grade separation north of there that bumped the price tag up. So much so that the transfer penalty is non existent. It will be like Anderson and Brentwood were before further extensions: a massive transfer station serving all neighbourhoods further out.
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Neil M was on the Danielle Smith show a couple weeks back (preamble starts at minute 21 most of the interesting comments are from minute 27 on), if you don't want to listen to the discussion my take-aways from Neil's comments are:
- Shepard Station was never planned as a bus terminal connector. It's tucked behind the Canadian Tire and difficult to get to (in my experience anyone who has taken the 130 overpass or 52nd street knows what a clusterf*ck of traffic lights and turn signals 130 ave is). It's highly questionable that riders will take long bus ride to Shepard or navigate their way to a parking lot to take the LRT.
- 16ave North station is close to useless, will have low ridership as the line is too short to encourage people to get off bus or car. Which means extra operating costs to run both LRT and buses on center street.
- North Center bus system is highly successful and can be improved to increase ridership at much lower cost than LRT. Don't build LRT to the North at this time.
-No rational from ridership basis to connect North and South portions of green line, connection idea is political and highly costly.
-build south line to Seton, Shepard to Seton is the least costly section of LRT to build.
-no risk to government funding if only South line is built and bus service to North is expanded.
https://tunein.com/podcasts/News--Po...icId=144250155
Sensible Alternative website LRT map:
https://greenlineinfo.ca/assets/uplo...ve_May2020.pdf