10-01-2023, 01:39 PM
(10-01-2023, 07:03 AM)ac3r Wrote: Bus route ridership is only one, very tiny part of the puzzle. They didn't built the entire LRT just because of the 7/8/200 routes being full, it was first and foremost built with the design of transit oriented development and promoting density for the long term health of the urban fabric of the region itself. It just so happened that those busy bus routes followed the "spine" that runs through all 3 cities and that the LRT logically followed that.
It’s still fair to say that people should have some idea what the existing ridership is. But you are correct to observe that LRT construction is a response to the overall condition of the city with an eye to the long-term, not exclusively a way of moving a few more people on a busy bus route.