So as a little bit of an aside, I talked to my wife saying "Hey did you know that the Aud is going to be just slightly further from the Borden LRT stop as our house is from GRH? That'll be handy going to the Aud, I always thought of it as kind of cut off."
And she pointed out to me that the last time we went to the Aud I was highly resistant to the idea of taking the 8 which goes even closer, so instead we drove. And I had to think for a little while about why I felt that way.
And it was this: Getting to the Aud by bus? No problem. Leaving the Aud to catch a half-hourly (or worse) bus at the same time a few other thousand people are leaving? Nope, nope nope nope. Because you don't know if you'll be trying to get on a single bus with 10 or 100 other people.
That equation plays out a lot differently with LRT, doesn't it? Ability to absorb local spikes (at least up to a couple hundred) is just part of the same equation that transit frequency and reliability play into: the idea that transit will be there when I need it and I won't be stranded.
Just hadn't thought about that aspect before.
And she pointed out to me that the last time we went to the Aud I was highly resistant to the idea of taking the 8 which goes even closer, so instead we drove. And I had to think for a little while about why I felt that way.
And it was this: Getting to the Aud by bus? No problem. Leaving the Aud to catch a half-hourly (or worse) bus at the same time a few other thousand people are leaving? Nope, nope nope nope. Because you don't know if you'll be trying to get on a single bus with 10 or 100 other people.
That equation plays out a lot differently with LRT, doesn't it? Ability to absorb local spikes (at least up to a couple hundred) is just part of the same equation that transit frequency and reliability play into: the idea that transit will be there when I need it and I won't be stranded.
Just hadn't thought about that aspect before.