11-04-2014, 01:03 PM
(11-04-2014, 12:34 PM)Markster Wrote: What I imagine we're seeing here is that yes, the towers of King St are making significant changes to travel patterns. My guess is that students are still gravitating to the most reliable service, the iXpress, but inbound in the morning, they wait at the iXpress stop and take whichever bus comes first. In the evening, they all go to the iXpress stop, crush load it (because there fewer alternate services at DC) and then all pile out at Laurier to go home to the towers.
The service will not be popular. But it will provide some basic service to a part of the city that's been isolated from transit.
I agree that the towers had reduced the length of the trips, thus the emptier buses in Charles St. terminal, however it still would make much less of a difference in terms of number of passengers carried. Anyone attending UW and living on King is likely to take the bus to school.
Route 15 is an example of an area built for cars, and it is simply not dense enough to justify regular bus service.