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Originally Posted by allan_kuan
Note: If you're wondering where I'm getting these stats from, I'm using the school's info and registration system.
An example of some of the enrollments for the larger lectures:
329 in MATH100
164 in MATH150
296 in MATH151
237 in MATH152
436 in MATH154
This is only for the undergraduate math lectures... and all of these courses happen every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
The system search also turned up roughly 84 other classes scattered around various Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings. Capacity for each of those varies from 20 to 40 since most of them are tutorials... although I did spot some lectures with higher capacities.
EDIT: I realize you are mixing up the terms gondola and aerial tram. I advise that you read the Gondola Project as they have good descriptions of the technologies (which are quite different btw). I should note that I do not oppose a gondola system but have some skepticism over an aerial tram system.
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Ah ic. Thanks for the enlightenment. You also meant in your previous post, "2 cars at the most"(not least).
Here's a snippet from
translink's initial feasibility study
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Analyses of ridership volumes indicate that at current ridership levels, the peak hourly demand for the gondola is 2,089 people per hour (pph). At minimum, this demand is expected to increase to 2,681 pph and at maximum to 3,762 pph (each figure is possible by the OPC horizon of 2030). It is suggested that an initial gondola capacity of 2,000 pph be provided with an option to increase capacity to 2,800 pph at a later date by adding additional cabins. The travel time from Production Way to the Transit Loop is estimated at 6 minutes. Together with the maximum projected wait time of 6 minutes during peak travel times, the overall gondola travel time would be less when compared to the 14 minutes (exclusive of waiting and loading times) travel time of the current bus route 145.
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Ok found translink bus ridership #'s in the study. 52%(145 - 11,799 daily ridership) use production way, 27% use hastings(135 - 6,126 daily ridership), 12% from coquitlam station(143 - 2,723 daily ridership) and the other 9% (144 - 2,042 daily ridership). Not sure if these are boardings or riders, but my guess is boardings. And my guess is, if the gondola has high enough capacity people will shift to taking a bus to the skytrain and over to Production Way, instead of taking the 135 or other buses up the hill(or translink will alter bus routes and reduce 135 to encourage such travel). So roughly ~23,000 daily boardings or ~11,500 people going up and coming back down(or vice versa) on transit. But not all will have 9am classes every day.