kEiThZ
Superstar
I am the first to acknowledge that Ottawa's Transitway has its challenges and the city has most certainly outgrown BRT.
However, we aren't talking about all of Sheppard here. We are talking about Sheppard East. This portion is most certainly not that highly or densely populated (unless you start counting the wildlife at the zoo in its catchment area). And I have not advocated BRT for the whole length. I have been clear that the subway should be extended to Agincourt at minimum with a goal of terminating it at Scarborough Town Centre. And I'd like to see it extended westward as well.
Getting back to my original point (since some of you have failed to understand my example of Ottawa).... My point was that the Transitway today handles through the core, using diamond bus lanes (not segregated corridors that you see elsewhere on the Transitway) close to 10 000 riders per hour per direction. This is significantly higher than what Sheppard East expects to see. And I am willing to bet that if you study just Agincourt to Meadowvale (the portion I'd like to see downgraded from LRT), your ridership would be significantly lower than that. I fully acknowledge that something higher order than BRT is required west of Agincourt. I'd like it to be a subway. I'd like to see the money saved from downgrading the LRT on this portion go towards extending the subway....to improve service and capacity on the portions of Sheppard East that truly need it.
However, we aren't talking about all of Sheppard here. We are talking about Sheppard East. This portion is most certainly not that highly or densely populated (unless you start counting the wildlife at the zoo in its catchment area). And I have not advocated BRT for the whole length. I have been clear that the subway should be extended to Agincourt at minimum with a goal of terminating it at Scarborough Town Centre. And I'd like to see it extended westward as well.
Getting back to my original point (since some of you have failed to understand my example of Ottawa).... My point was that the Transitway today handles through the core, using diamond bus lanes (not segregated corridors that you see elsewhere on the Transitway) close to 10 000 riders per hour per direction. This is significantly higher than what Sheppard East expects to see. And I am willing to bet that if you study just Agincourt to Meadowvale (the portion I'd like to see downgraded from LRT), your ridership would be significantly lower than that. I fully acknowledge that something higher order than BRT is required west of Agincourt. I'd like it to be a subway. I'd like to see the money saved from downgrading the LRT on this portion go towards extending the subway....to improve service and capacity on the portions of Sheppard East that truly need it.
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