06-14-2019, 10:56 AM
(06-14-2019, 09:17 AM)MidTowner Wrote:jamincan Wrote:I thought the estimated time from Willis Way to Allen seemed pretty generous at 4 minutes. I think this is a reasonably conservative schedule.
The schedule in the My New Ride planner is not the same as the PDF 301 schedule that has been uploaded. The latter now shows the time between Willis Way and Allen at three minutes. But it shows the time between Allen and Grand River Hospital as three minutes as well, which seems very generous: that's only seven hundred metres and two stop lights.
The other discrepancies are between Conestoga and Northfield (six minutes in the planner; four minutes in the PDF); and Grand River Hospital and Central Station (two minutes in the planner; three minutes in the PDF); and Mill and Block Line (seven minutes in the planner; five in the PDF).
I believe these schedules have a lot of padding built into them to deal with occasional issues without trains getting behind or bunched. I do appreciate the non-bunching, but not so much the 'a lot slower service than it could be' part.
Two or three weeks ago as I'd follow an LRV from Manitou to Waterloo Public Square on my drives in to work it was difficult to keep up to it even though it stopped and cycled its doors at every station. This week I've routinely been catching up to and then getting ahead of an LRV because it dwells what seems like forever at every station. I think the difference is that now the operators are running to the schedule on their 'copilot' (a term I've heard multiple times on the radio) whereas a few weeks ago they weren't.
I'll take the May service for $200 Alex.
...K