12-02-2020, 04:20 AM
(12-01-2020, 10:26 PM)ac3r Wrote:I have posted this in here before but since we're talking about Pre-COVID numbers then perhaps this graph from the 2020 Budget discussions would be appropriate. If your claim were at all true, these orange bars would be much, much smaller than they are. It's important to understand the size of the vehicle can be deceptive at times. Especially if one is only observing a vehicle between Northfield and Conestoga Stations.(12-01-2020, 10:15 PM)ijmorlan Wrote: It is true that it is not built to carry existing demand, which is still well within the range that can be handled by buses.
It is definitely able to handle the demand. The thing is empty half of the time, even before SARS-CoV-2 disrupted everything. According to Keolis the LRT only carries 25'000 people per day on average. In terms of a rapid transit system (and specifically one that is serving a region of over 600'000+ people! - Nürnberg, Germany for example, is roughly the same size as us even even denser yet it has 3 subway lines, 5 streetcar/LRT lines, 4 S-bahn lines and a million bus routes) it's so far an absolute failure in terms of ridership. Even that number is quite ambiguous since they only announced that in a recent press release in regards to the ION winning a national award. Will ridership go up? I have no doubt, but it's reaching veeeeeeerrryyy far to paint the ION as an astounding success.