08-31-2023, 01:27 PM
(08-30-2023, 06:18 PM)plam Wrote:(08-30-2023, 06:33 AM)ac3r Wrote: Hah, 2AM for the LRT? Not a chance. Waterloo Region isn't a 24 hour city like Toronto, Berlin, New York City. There is no reason to operate the LRT past midnight and pay all of that money just to move a dozen people.
If you take that line of reasoning, we get to the historical GO Transit pattern where we only move people to get to work for their 9-5 job. Public transport should move the public, and people need to get to work for 5am jobs as well as 9am jobs. And service on Sundays and in the summers has been lacking historically. They shouldn't be. It should be something that we can depend on at all times.
Well it runs from 05:45 to 24:23 which I think is fine for Waterloo Region. We don't have the money to be running the LRT any longer than that. The only people on the LRT at 2AM would be homeless and the odd person who works really weird hours. Not sure that justifies paying the wages of a dozen drivers, security, fare inspectors, Keolis staff and then all the money spent on power it draws.