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Originally Posted by bomberjet
The thing about the dog leg. There are still bus routes that run on Pembina. So if you want to go to Pembina at McGillivray, you take a route that gets you there. You could take a BRT route that runs on transitway until Jubilee and exits there.
If you want to bypass that stretch of Pembina, you take a route that stays on the transitway through to the end. There should be no need to walk a mile from the McGillivray station (which is not called McGillivray anymore, possibly Seal Station).
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This is the way it's going to work, yes, but splitting the service over two separate corridors is really not optimal from the perspective of both operational efficiency and customer convenience. Especially in off-peak times when the service frequencies are likely to be pretty poor (as they currently are). Simpler is always better. It's easier to provide frequent service if all your buses are operating on one corridor than if they are split across two parallel corridors.
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Originally Posted by bomberjet
While again I agree having stations out in fields is silly, the idea of a bus highway, as one poster put it, is still there and valid. The transitway is not there so someone can go 2 stops down to the grocery store. It's for moving people long distances.
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Again, that's the way it's going to work, but it's not optimal. Ordinarily rapid transit is used for both long trips
and short trips (see e.g. the subway in any city -- people do indeed use it to go 2 stops to the grocery store, in addition to using it to commute long distances to work). We've built the transitway in a location where it's only useful for long trips. If we had built it in the rail corridor, it would still serve the long "bus highway" function equally well, but it would also be useful for local trips. More bang for the buck, and a simpler transit network too, which is always a good thing.
To be clear, I don't think the dogleg route is a disaster, but it definitely makes the transitway less useful and beneficial than it could have been. I'm not sure if the ability to have park-and-ride lots really makes up for it.