09-21-2015, 11:44 AM
With any mass transit, you want consistent day-long week-round ridership. This is impossible, but looking at the ION, we don't want it to be only full on weekday rush, so having it serve locations that are open outside of weekdays is imperative.
The LRT route looks good for having that sort of all-day, everyday kind of ridership... excepting three stops: Northfield, R&T Park, and UW.
If we shifted the R&T, UW, and Seagram spots to AMCC, N of Columbia, N of University... it'd have probably worked just fine, excepting that you now have stops on two heavily-trafficked double-wide thoroughfares instead of smaller streets and the Uni. It'd have better served the residential stuff on University and up by AMCC for week-'round riders, by that metric.
Maybe some of the station choices will become clearer as they release the plans for the bus network that'll have to be updated for this all to work.
The LRT route looks good for having that sort of all-day, everyday kind of ridership... excepting three stops: Northfield, R&T Park, and UW.
If we shifted the R&T, UW, and Seagram spots to AMCC, N of Columbia, N of University... it'd have probably worked just fine, excepting that you now have stops on two heavily-trafficked double-wide thoroughfares instead of smaller streets and the Uni. It'd have better served the residential stuff on University and up by AMCC for week-'round riders, by that metric.
Maybe some of the station choices will become clearer as they release the plans for the bus network that'll have to be updated for this all to work.