Recent content by Transit Apologist

The system CT has implemented has reliable readers that are adaptable to pretty much every payment option we'd ever need. I think starting with an ultimately well-working app and saving fare cards & credit for future incremental improvements is perfectly reasonable. Would users on this forum be...

Not necessarily through the middle per se, but it would cut off the south side of the property. See the city's diagram below:

The planned extension of 50 Avenue SE would cut through the property anyway, so the motocross track would likely be closed regardless of whether or not a new garage was built. Transit has been winding down operations at Victoria Park since before Covid IIRC. Between the green line and the...

ETS did buy a few of our retired U2's to use for parts several years back, so they must still have some mechanical similarities.

Brentwood is a much busier destination, because of the university ridership (already proven by route 9). If the Teal were extended north you could shorten the 9 to end at Westbrook, because local service north of the river is already covered by routes 90 and 104. Moving NW routing from the 9 to...

Hudson's Bay is filing for creditor protection: CTV article

Shepard is close enough that in the short-term most feeder buses south of 130th can be rerouted to serve it for a few years before the Seton extension is inevitably built. It'll still be a little bit faster than going to the Red Line (which is what most of them do right now). In my opinion it's...

MRU is where most weekday MAX Yellow ridership comes from. South of Glenmore the area it serves is not very transit-friendly (having openly protested against SW BRT in the past, and continuing to fight TOD projects such as Glenmore Landing) and that portion of the route sees relatively weak...

Nothing revolutionary this signup as far as I know. I wouldn’t be surprised if the next significant service change comes when the 301 is converted to a MAX route (likely sometime around Summer 2025).

There are minor cosmetic differences to the interior, but beyond that it’s the same as a series 9 S200 AFAIK.

Goodbye (perhaps good riddance) to what was once one of the most decrepit CBE properties. The 2005 facility evaluation report is available online and an interesting read.

It’s a MAX line, as shown by the MAX shelters and signs currently being installed at several Centre Street stops. Colour is unknown though - at the moment they only say “MAX TBD”

The existing route 9 runs from 37 Street & MRU to Chinook, and since there are very few stops between MRU and Chinook a BRT would offer little advantage over the current service (hence the MAX Teal going to Heritage instead). For that matter, the 9 successfully runs more-or-less the exact...

Exactly what I was thinking - I believe a lot of the ridership is expected to come from Bowness riders going to Westbrook Mall (a connection that has been desired by locals for many years now) and Tuscany riders going to the shopping area on Tuscany Boulevard (or the other shopping area on Nose...

The info isn’t completely public yet but those who read the CPTDB forum may have heard that one section of Sarcee will be put to use for transit. A new crosstown route from Tuscany to Westbrook via Bowness is coming in the fall.