wopchop
Building Toronto
This has to stop......the Georgetown corridor was not prepped by UPe.....if anything the opposite. In addition to the $456 million direct cost for UPe, $1.2B of public funds went into the corridor. As I have said before, the saddest part of all of this is that we have spent that much public money (the $1.2B) on a public transit corridor and, today and for the near term, we actually have less public transit trains running on it than before the expenditure.......and they are being allowed by an unwitting media to get away without a) telling how they could do this without formulating a plan over the 4 or 5 years of construction on how to implement more service and b) release their plan to do so.
If you/they are going to say UPe is what will (some day) bring more public transit to the line they should man up and declare the cost of UPe is actually $1.656B.
(and that comes from someone who is largely a supporter of the UPe).
As I said, if the target, the measure of success, is 1.2 million riders....I have little doubt that they can achieve an average of 23 people per train with this price structure
I wouldn't be surprised. The Pacific-Western bus carried 190,000 riders in in 2013, with frequency approximately every 40 minutes and a total trip of ~ 1 hour. 10 years ago, they apparently carried 400,000. The article doesn't say what the frequency was like 10 years ago.
But if a hour-long bus ride for $27 can attract that many people, I think that a 25-minute train ride for that same price (or less, if Presto) can attract a lot more.