nfitz
Superstar
Where are you getting this from?niftz, your numbers are terribly wrong. If Eglinton only captured half of the riders that the B-D did in the section past Jane (read: virtually a totally new swath of riders taken in, as well as airport trips, as well as same density as the Bloor corridor and intercepting riders off busses bound for Bloor,) there would need to be 50 hours in the day for it to have a peak 2k pphpd, and that's disregarding rush hour commutes that'd push that peak number even higher. So it'd need to have maybe 1/8 of the ridership that Bloor picks up for it to have a peak of 2k pphpd west of Jane. By just looking at a map, you can easily laugh at that estimate.
Stop pulling these things out of your imagination. This is the real estimate of ridership in 2031 made by people a lot more qualified than you, using computer models. It's about 2,300 in the peak hour. It's not conceivable that these estimates are so wrong, that LRT capacity issues would exist. Your statement to the contrary is utter nonsense.
Let's put this in perspective. There's only 12 buses an hour during the peak period; with the current loading standard of 50, that's only 600 people per hour. With a 4-car LRT on Eglinton you would need one train an hour to carry the current demand. Four trains an hour to meet the 2031 demand.
There is no capacity concerns with running LRT on this part of Eglinton West.
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