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Are they going to add BRT lanes that cut into the communities or something? Several of those stops are at the intersection of major roads with that are 100-200m away from any houses. Hard to imagine a stop that's easy to get to or pleasant to wait at here:
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It's probably a way for them to build a bus loop at Seton station to have capacity for feeders. A two lane road paved on top of the alignment won't be too wasteful especially if they design the utilities to be converted
Soon there will be three ways to access the station, when the controlled intersection is completed at 15th Ave SE/McLeod
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I think a distance based fare would also help with walking/biking vs transit. It seems odd that taking the train from downtown to Sunnyside is the same as taking it to Tuscany, which means people are likely going to resist taking it one stop and just walk.Listened to a podcast about free transit. I find their opinions a bit extreme at times but appreciate their perspective. There was a line that I found interesting, free transit doesn't actually move a lot of people out of their cars because if you can afford to drive you can afford to drive. What it does is get people biking and walking to take transit instead. This made a lot of sense to me, especially when thinking about the colder months of the year.
The podcast covered a few other things that can make buses faster and better. It had me considering things like what is better fewer stops but more people getting on that those fewer stops causing longer dwell time that doesn't necessarily speed up the bus. Fewer stops also makes the bus a little less convenient, I'm willing to walk 15 minutes to a MAX stop but a lot of people are not. I do like the idea of all-door loading, it wouldn't be that hard to put a scanner at the back door of a bus, especially the BRT, MAX and Accordion buses. Obviously the best thing you can do for bus service is bus lanes and bus priority at lights, I'd love to see a consideration of bike lanes and bus lanes on certain roads coupled together. As a cyclist I would appreciate riding on the left side of a bus lane, I know there are not going to be any doors opening in front of me, the bus will go in a straight line and not cut across the lane like a parked or merging car would. I think this could work on 5th, 6th and 9th Avenues, and Centre and 1st Street SW downtown.
Should the Bus Be Free? With Yonah Freemark
Podcast Episode · The War on Cars · 08/12/2025 · 1h 1m
Having rode some of these in Toronto and Asia, electric busses are great, so much quieter. I wonder if they'll have gas heaters so the battery isn't spent heating up the bus so much.City of Calgary announces procurement of 120 electric transit buses
More than 100 emission-free buses will be rolling along Calgary's streets in the next three years.
It makes sense when you think about choke points and capacity constraints. For LRT in Calgary you could change the fares to make the LRT system free as long as you're not passing on bridges, tunnels, or viaducts immediately adjacent to downtown, and the system would work fine. Maybe fares for inbound for the hour of peak.
