Remarkable work, really.

Building out the infra for this bus thing would take just as long as a rail system. People talk about perfect being the enemy of good, but this would be mediocre being the enemy of good. For the same time and marginally higher cost we could have something 5x more efficient and safe.

It actually makes me really mad that someone like Reece who taught me these things in the first place is now ignoring all of his own advice and suggesting the worst possible choice for our region. It flies in the face of everything he used to stand for.

And the biggest kicker of this whole thing: if we ever DO want to upgrade to rail, we have to shut the whole thing down for years and cannibalize the whole system’s ridership. Which basically locks in the idea that we will never upgrade to a higher order of transit AKA rail

But won’t deliver on efficiency. It is nowhere as easy to create longer consists like a train would be, it won’t have enough positional accuracy to allow for platform screen doors, which means no heated stations. It is for all intents and purposes a gadgetbahn. We can achieve the same thing w/ BRT

Burns through tires, loses braking power in snow and ice, has complex maintenance requirements, is only manufactured by one company who we would be beholden to forever for parts and support and maintenance, and requires a human driver. It still requires all the bridges and flyovers of rail [cont.],

It just seems like a massive investment into infrastructure that’s 90% the cost of rail but without any of the benefits of rail. It’s a fixed route so it can’t detour around crashes or stalls, but it doesn’t have the efficiency of rail. It still generates road wear, emits microplastics, [cont.]

The more gadgetbahns we can get in #yyj the better we’ll be. That’s Island Time, baby!

Interesting. That kinda sucks. I believe it was you that taught me a grade-separated busway was a terrible idea. Has your opinion changed on that? Or would this one operate in traffic? What am I missing here

Literally any engineering solution. Even if it’s the bare minimum. An asphalt bump costs like $3,000 max

that is hands down the most dangerous place that I ride my bike

If you tell me it’s because of problems with the fire alarm system I will be extremely mad.

It was part of my job duties to plop the bike rack at Broadmead shopping centre back into place because so many people would rip it out just trying to get their bike lock off of their bike. Besides gravity and a wish and a prayer, there was nothing holding that bike rack in place.