I agree. 10 minutes off peak during the day, and 15 minutes for late evening is good. I've been at subway stations, late evening in places like New York/London/Paris/Munich, and many of the lines have similar frequencies.
Yeah 10-minute frequency is great backbone service improvement for much of the day and happy it drifts into the evening too. It's probably been since 2019 since the LRT ran that frequent mid-day. Frequency of every 10 minutes or less is widely seen as the line for useful transit - no pre-trip planning needed if the longest you'll ever wait is 10 minutes.
Next is taking that later evening and weekend LRT frequency to 10 minutes too. While doing that, start chipping away at better frequencies for the main line bus routes midday and evening and we are starting to get somewhere.
I would also love to see more stratification in CTs routes so users have a better idea of the level of service they will get. As good as Translink is, I think Toronto's route categories are the winner here, super easy to understand a route's service level with this legend:
Toronto's secret to success is their incredible 10-minute skeletal network for their buses - as far as I know, probably the strongest suburban bus service network in North America. Essentially the arterial streets are all 10-minute frequency or better for the whole city, usually with an Express Network layered on top and an all-night 30 minute frequency after the service stops for the day. It's the most predictable bus service.
24 hours a day - walk to an arterial, get on the bus. Bus follows the arterial. Get off at your stop. Easy - and a good example of what's possible with a properly implemented network that prioritizes frequency over coverage, to earlier conversations in this thread.
Closest thing CT has to Toronto's arterial standard is the Centre Street corridor with Route 3 + Route 300/Route 301 layered, which combined offer something akin to 10 minute frequency for large parts of the day. But Centre Street is also messy and uncoordinated - sometimes stops are shared, sometimes they are not - bus stops are scattered all over with random shelters of varying quality, seating etc. There's also like 5 other community bus routes that use Centre Street partially too - so it's all a bit cluttered and confusing.
Baby steps though for Calgary - get the LRT and main line buses back to higher frequencies and build from there.
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