Kid, I have been doing transit planning for 25 years or so. I can very correctly point out that the Broadway Corridor is far from the busiest bus corridor in Canada, about 4th or 5th actually and far below the threshold for a below grade right of way (tunnel). Even Translink doesn't say this anymore because other Canadian transit agencies started to call them out on this fact. This lie was allowed to spread because it helped to justify to the public, the need for a tunnel. In both the number of surface transit vehicless per hour per direction (stv/h/d) and passengers per hour per direction (p/h/d) Broadway although very busy, was far from number 1 on this and a surface LRT or BRT busway, could have easily handled the expected future traffic. Even with new signaling and a new automation software /hardware system (the old one is no longer supported by the maker)this Millennium Line extension will only be moving 7500 p/h/d at peak periods. That's with track, signaling, a new ATC system and longer trains. Currently (before Covid-19) Broadway moved about 4200- 4800 p/h/d at the peak period (rush hour) or about 42 to 45 buses (stv/h/d). A short list just off the top of my head, Hurontario-Main Streets (between Mississauga and Brampton, Ontario) 50 to 55 (stv/h/d) and 5500 p/h/d. Gatineau Quebec STO service between downtown Gatineau and Ottawa along Wellington and Rideau Streets, 4600-5400 p/h/d and 78-90 stv/h/d. Both King Street and the College/Gerrard Streetcar lines as well as St.Laurent Blvd. have equal or greater numbers than Broadway. in Montreal the current Pie IX Blvd before the Busway (it's almost finished) was the equivalent of Broadway's numbers. I'm not including the former and soon to be former downtown to south shore bus Corridor in Montreal. The Albert and Slater Corridor in Ottawa which easily doubled what Broadway carried and did so everyday for 25 to 30 years before the LRT tunnel. Eglinton Ave. in Toronto, before the Crosstown LRT. The current Mississauga and South-East Ottawa Transitways (busways). Both Finch Ave. East and Sheppard Ave. East in Scarborough (Toronto). As well as, the Steeles Ave. Corridor (both eat and west) in Toronto. This is only Canada and hardly an exhaustive list. The information comes from the CUTA (Canadian Urban Transit Association) transit data inventory. A great resource, if you want to pay the $300 to $650 yearly membership fee, depends on your type of membership.
fam that's like pointing to google and saying 'that's my source'. You could at least make an effort to cite your sources by giving the article name for starters
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Kid, I have been doing transit planning for 25 years or so. I can very correctly point out that the Broadway Corridor is far from the busiest bus corridor in Canada, about 4th or 5th actually and far below the threshold for a below grade right of way (tunnel). Even Translink doesn't say this anymore because other Canadian transit agencies started to call them out on this fact. This lie was allowed to spread because it helped to justify to the public, the need for a tunnel.
In both the number of surface transit vehicless per hour per direction (stv/h/d) and passengers per hour per direction (p/h/d) Broadway although very busy, was far from number 1 on this and a surface LRT or BRT busway, could have easily handled the expected future traffic. Even with new signaling and a new automation software /hardware system (the old one is no longer supported by the maker)this Millennium Line extension will only be moving 7500 p/h/d at peak periods. That's with track, signaling, a new ATC system and longer trains.
Currently (before Covid-19) Broadway moved about 4200- 4800 p/h/d at the peak period (rush hour) or about 42 to 45 buses (stv/h/d). A short list just off the top of my head, Hurontario-Main Streets (between Mississauga and Brampton, Ontario) 50 to 55 (stv/h/d) and 5500 p/h/d. Gatineau Quebec STO service between downtown Gatineau and Ottawa along Wellington and Rideau Streets, 4600-5400 p/h/d and 78-90 stv/h/d. Both King Street and the College/Gerrard Streetcar lines as well as St.Laurent Blvd. have equal or greater numbers than Broadway. in Montreal the current Pie IX Blvd before the Busway (it's almost finished) was the equivalent of Broadway's numbers.
I'm not including the former and soon to be former downtown to south shore bus Corridor in Montreal. The Albert and Slater Corridor in Ottawa which easily doubled what Broadway carried and did so everyday for 25 to 30 years before the LRT tunnel. Eglinton Ave. in Toronto, before the Crosstown LRT. The current Mississauga and South-East Ottawa Transitways (busways). Both Finch Ave. East and Sheppard Ave. East in Scarborough (Toronto). As well as, the Steeles Ave. Corridor (both eat and west) in Toronto. This is only Canada and hardly an exhaustive list.
The information comes from the CUTA (Canadian Urban Transit Association) transit data inventory. A great resource, if you want to pay the $300 to $650 yearly membership fee, depends on your type of membership.
Just the f'cking tone of this!
fam that's like pointing to google and saying 'that's my source'. You could at least make an effort to cite your sources by giving the article name for starters
Feels like flat earth spam.