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The DRL also intersects Gerrard Square as well which connects to th BD.
because a BRT wouldn't get subway passengers off of the bloor line, that simple.
Toronto people are frustrating.
It doesn't have anything with Toronto people being frustrating. Its just that a BRT would have a fraction of the needed capacity. Some people would ride it, but the impact would be negligible.
Why are there still buses in Manhattan if it is covered by subway lines?
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It doesn't have anything with Toronto people being frustrating. Its just that a BRT would have a fraction of the needed capacity. Some people would ride it, but the impact would be negligible.
Yup. The maximum capacity of a 60 foot articulated bus is 110, which is about 1/3 the crush load capacity of a single T-1 subway car (315).
Well it is a good thing my BRT scheme would use more than one bus then.
I don't think you understood my point.
The interior capacity of 1 articulated bus = 1/3 a subway car
There are 6 subway cars per train.
A train arrives every 2 minutes.
Assuming that you could run a bus reliably every 2 minutes with the same dwell times at a stop as a subway train, and that the bus could travel seamlessly in a mixed traffic environment as if it were a grade-separated subway, and that people would be able to circulate around a shared 8 foot wide sidewalk with the same efficiency as they use a purpose-built 10 foot wide subway platform...even then, you would alleviate 1/18 (5.6%) of the congestion on the subway.
Ottawa's Transitway through downtown (dedicated one-way bus lanes), carries about 10,000 pphpd. So you're right, it wouldn't be able to handle DRL volumes. However, if such a service could be done for cheap, and run as a semi-express type of service (Woodbine Stn to downtown via Woodbine & Lake Shore, Keele Stn via Parkside & Lake Shore), it may be worth exploring as a stop-gap solution.