01-10-2016, 02:01 PM
(01-10-2016, 10:06 AM)Canard Wrote: It does matter, yeah - you can't pull people out of cars when you tell them a <15 minute drive is 40+ on public transport.
But why should that particular route be the benchmark for comparing to cars? How about comparing the uptown to downtown stretch instead? Or downtown to the R&T park?
For a car person to start using ION from Conestoga to Fairview implies that this person will (1) drive to Conestoga Mall first, since no one actually lives there, and (2) go to Fairview Mall as the destination (instead of Conestoga Mall) for shopping or work. How common is that going to be, really?
The only way to have speeds comparable to an expressway is to have an express route with very few stops (and traffic lights). And that's not the intent of our LRT. I really think the percentage of passengers on the train for the full distance between the two termini will be very small.