The existing route 9 runs from 37 Street & MRU to Chinook, and since there are very few stops between MRU and Chinook a BRT would offer little advantage over the current service (hence the MAX Teal going to Heritage instead). For that matter, the 9 successfully runs more-or-less the exact...

Exactly what I was thinking - I believe a lot of the ridership is expected to come from Bowness riders going to Westbrook Mall (a connection that has been desired by locals for many years now) and Tuscany riders going to the shopping area on Tuscany Boulevard (or the other shopping area on Nose...

The info isn’t completely public yet but those who read the CPTDB forum may have heard that one section of Sarcee will be put to use for transit. A new crosstown route from Tuscany to Westbrook via Bowness is coming in the fall.

Discovery Ridge does currently have a regular bus route (the 51) albeit with rather underwhelming ridership.

Currently the Haysboro LRV garage (responsible for storing all 4 car trains) is closed to undergo expansion, so we’re going to see strictly 3 car service until Spring 2025. https://www.calgarytransit.com/content/transit/en/home/plans---projects/Haysboro-Storage-Facility-Expansion.html

This is because the 17 Ave SE corridor has 3 other routes besides the MAX Purple, with the 87 and 440 providing local-style service to Marlborough and Franklin respectively and the 1 using all Purple stops between 52 Street and downtown. If the 1 were shortened to Bowness-downtown then the MAX...

1990 Vancouver was still 6 years away from its first B-Line, let alone Rapidbus. I won’t deny that our bus service is nothing special, but as far as that comparison goes I think we’re doing alright.

The 301 is the oldest rapid transit-branded bus route in the system, with its first day being August 30 2004. It’s also easily the most successful one: in a FOIP a friend did for 2023 ridership data the 301 averaged 6109 riders per day, vs 1544 for the 300, 2405 for the 302 and 2847 for the MAX...

Bowness & Montgomery bus service existed as early as 1963 (and probably earlier) then provided by route 25 Bowness. That lot was the loop for route 1 when it was a trolleybus. The 1 was dieselized in 1965 and extended east from Inglewood to Forest Lawn and west from Parkdale to Bowness sometime...

PCL will be managing the rehabilitation of the West Runway: https://skiesmag.com/press-releases/calgary-airport-authority-appoints-construction-manager-for-west-runway-rehabilitation-project/

A few sightings over the past several months: A survivor Cutlass (‘75 would be my guess for model year) near Brentwood. Beautiful NA Miata sharing the block with a modified XJ Cherokee and a rare not-completely-rusted-out 2nd gen 4Runner in Coventry Hills. A grab shot from the bus of a...

Also of note: scheduled routes are replacing West On Demand in the 69 Street area.

As a recent grad from that school, it and the possible transfers are the only redeeming features of that station. I have personally witnessed southbound trips of routes 3 and 17 crush-loaded by students from the Eau Claire-Chinatown area heading home post-dismissal. Furthermore, 10th Ave is the...

Beddington will never have enough bus bays for North Pointe routes plus the routes that will use it anyway, and many more successful North Pointe routes (8, 100, 124) will lose efficiency by being forced to travel an extra ~30 blocks south. It would be better to keep the 301 as a short-term...

In my experience, the majority of ridership on the 301 (the most direct bus-route predecessor to the north Green Line) goes directly between downtown and North Pointe Terminal (Panorama) so to cut it short at Beddington is rather inconvenient. Sure they’re doing a similar thing currently by...

Northeast service change proposal https://www.calgarytransit.com/content/transit/en/home/news/northeast-route-review.html Route 100 North Pointe-Airport-McKnight Westwinds: rerouted east of the airport, would travel on Airport Trail and 80 Ave to a new terminus of Saddletowne instead of its...

https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/man-shot-on-calgary-transit-bus-suffers-life-threatening-injuries-1.6352656 Altercation around noon on the MAX Purple near Central Library, firearms were involved.