The card validator was for an older presold ticket book where the tickets were printed on a poster board, inserting the cardboard ticket into the validator would stamp the ticket with the location, time and date as well as punch out a notch. The notch was because originally multi-ride tickets were also sold so each validation would be a separate line on the punched card. Yes, it was very old school, no scanning involved but that was the latest in the early 79's and 80's. You can still purchase the prepaid tickets at convenience stores in packs of ten but each card are single ride only though I believe they do forever tickets instead of set fare prices now. Calgarians are basically ROTFL when you tried to punch your paper receipt thinking it was a scanner...
I live close to Calgary and the best line by far is the Western part of the blue line. To make it better they are planning lots of Transit oriented development around most stations there so I'm pretty excited
Totally agree about MAX Purple and the 305 joining, but Calgary Transit has decided to cut the 305 entirely and boost service on Bus 1 and 108 (used to be 408) in its place...better for off-peak users. Surprised with your experience on MAX Orange; it's currently running every 11 minutes mid-day and as often as every 6-8 minutes during rush hour. It seems to be high priority for CT to meet the minimum 10 minute standard 15 hours a day on all its rapid transit lines, with them continuing to hire 800 new drivers and increasing frequencies on many routes every quarter.
Even though the bus is stuck with the cars and thus experiences the same delays, it is moving far more people at once than one car that may be driving next to it. But if the bus was faster there would be more incentive for ridership which is the goal. Those roads are also way too wide, and the intersections are the worst, traffic circles would be an unbelievable upgrade and make driving/bus transit way more efficient with fewer lanes. All around win win, and this doesn’t mean all intersections need to be roundabouts, just major ones. Imagine what taking even one lane away and replacing it with grass or concrete could do, more bike lanes or seating areas or parks. I feel that Calgary has so much potential if it is designed in the right way.
The Calgary BRT services uses a combination of separate transit lanes (best seen besides 14th st South), divided lanes and painted transit lanes and priority lanes at intersections so except for certain restricted locations such as the bridge across Glenmore reservoir, the BRT is largely unaffected by regular vehicle traffic. Much of the rationale for establishing the separate right of ways for the BRT is to have a right of way for any future LRT line should the BRT services shows sufficient demand... They do incorporate round abouts with the Calgary BRT service, best seen at the south turnaround for the Yellow Max line. They actually established several round abouts in that particular bedroom community with the construction of the BRT line though only one was incorporated into the BRT system (the round abouts basically used existing recreational park and drainage land to build on).
One good note: All tickets are good for 90 minutes. If you're quick, you can do a round-trip without having to buy an extra ticket. 2. The Max stations are the best in the city. 3. If you're low-income under 65, apply for a low-income bus pass through the City's Fair Entry program which also gives you reduced fees for eg. access to community leisure centres.
Originally, it was 90 minutes in one direction so round trips were not possible but that proved difficult to enforce in the honour system used so it devolved to straight 90 minutes.
Love the exploration of Calgary! Born and raised there and the MAX is definitely an improvement from basic bus routes but still not great lol (besides the bus lanes on 14 Street SW & 17 Ave SE). Also SAIT/AUArts station is extremely difficult to find, especially from the SAIT side so it usually ends up in an interesting journey haha.
I've heard good things about Calgary's transit system, and they appear to be affirmed by this video. Looking at a map, it seems pretty clear that the city has really solid coverage and that it will continue to get even better in the coming years. I really dig their BRT line routing, they all seem to funnel into the LRT (which really seems to act more like a Light Metro tbh) or they act like an orbital. Pretty cool
The original Blue Arrow program (a precursor to a BRT program) to evaluate the market for the first LRT line now known as the red line, included an on demand minibus service using Flxible minibuses serving six bedroom communities out of Heritage and Southland stations. The passengers would call a dispatch number with their address and destination and a minibus would pick them up in ten minutes. This was to avoid having to increase the scheduled routes to those neighborhoods just to properly evaluate LRT demand. I feel that in keeping with this concept, select neighborhoods could have autonomous vehicles serving as a form of PRT service as feeders to the LRT/BRT services as basically a manual version was used in the pilot program which justified the LRT in the first place...
2:42 Let me explain the ticket validator, so you can buy a ticket book with 10 tickets and they need to be given to a bus driver or put in the validator, if you put a ticket from the ticket book in to the validator, it will give you a paper ticket like the one you just got.
@@morethantransitt I don't know much. Aside from they've already made some upgrades to intersections, and I've seen some of the route ahead documents that show that it would be a high value conversion. I wish I could share pictures I found of the proposed Max routes here
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The card validator was for an older presold ticket book where the tickets were printed on a poster board, inserting the cardboard ticket into the validator would stamp the ticket with the location, time and date as well as punch out a notch. The notch was because originally multi-ride tickets were also sold so each validation would be a separate line on the punched card. Yes, it was very old school, no scanning involved but that was the latest in the early 79's and 80's. You can still purchase the prepaid tickets at convenience stores in packs of ten but each card are single ride only though I believe they do forever tickets instead of set fare prices now. Calgarians are basically ROTFL when you tried to punch your paper receipt thinking it was a scanner...
I live close to Calgary and the best line by far is the Western part of the blue line. To make it better they are planning lots of Transit oriented development around most stations there so I'm pretty excited
That's great to hear! I think the park and ride systems of CTrain stations are big potentials for transit-oriented development
Totally agree about MAX Purple and the 305 joining, but Calgary Transit has decided to cut the 305 entirely and boost service on Bus 1 and 108 (used to be 408) in its place...better for off-peak users. Surprised with your experience on MAX Orange; it's currently running every 11 minutes mid-day and as often as every 6-8 minutes during rush hour. It seems to be high priority for CT to meet the minimum 10 minute standard 15 hours a day on all its rapid transit lines, with them continuing to hire 800 new drivers and increasing frequencies on many routes every quarter.
Good to hear that there are lots of improvements! I believe the MAXs can be utilized more efficiently than now!
Even though the bus is stuck with the cars and thus experiences the same delays, it is moving far more people at once than one car that may be driving next to it. But if the bus was faster there would be more incentive for ridership which is the goal. Those roads are also way too wide, and the intersections are the worst, traffic circles would be an unbelievable upgrade and make driving/bus transit way more efficient with fewer lanes. All around win win, and this doesn’t mean all intersections need to be roundabouts, just major ones. Imagine what taking even one lane away and replacing it with grass or concrete could do, more bike lanes or seating areas or parks. I feel that Calgary has so much potential if it is designed in the right way.
My family just visited Calgary. We experienced more congestions in downtown than even on Macleod Trail!
The Calgary BRT services uses a combination of separate transit lanes (best seen besides 14th st South), divided lanes and painted transit lanes and priority lanes at intersections so except for certain restricted locations such as the bridge across Glenmore reservoir, the BRT is largely unaffected by regular vehicle traffic. Much of the rationale for establishing the separate right of ways for the BRT is to have a right of way for any future LRT line should the BRT services shows sufficient demand...
They do incorporate round abouts with the Calgary BRT service, best seen at the south turnaround for the Yellow Max line. They actually established several round abouts in that particular bedroom community with the construction of the BRT line though only one was incorporated into the BRT system (the round abouts basically used existing recreational park and drainage land to build on).
One good note: All tickets are good for 90 minutes. If you're quick, you can do a round-trip without having to buy an extra ticket.
2. The Max stations are the best in the city.
3. If you're low-income under 65, apply for a low-income bus pass through the City's Fair Entry program which also gives you reduced fees for eg. access to community leisure centres.
Thanks for your input!
Originally, it was 90 minutes in one direction so round trips were not possible but that proved difficult to enforce in the honour system used so it devolved to straight 90 minutes.
Love the exploration of Calgary! Born and raised there and the MAX is definitely an improvement from basic bus routes but still not great lol (besides the bus lanes on 14 Street SW & 17 Ave SE). Also SAIT/AUArts station is extremely difficult to find, especially from the SAIT side so it usually ends up in an interesting journey haha.
I've heard good things about Calgary's transit system, and they appear to be affirmed by this video. Looking at a map, it seems pretty clear that the city has really solid coverage and that it will continue to get even better in the coming years. I really dig their BRT line routing, they all seem to funnel into the LRT (which really seems to act more like a Light Metro tbh) or they act like an orbital. Pretty cool
Yes, the LRT network is a pretty good end-to-end connection for the city, and it is still expanding with the Green Line!
The original Blue Arrow program (a precursor to a BRT program) to evaluate the market for the first LRT line now known as the red line, included an on demand minibus service using Flxible minibuses serving six bedroom communities out of Heritage and Southland stations. The passengers would call a dispatch number with their address and destination and a minibus would pick them up in ten minutes. This was to avoid having to increase the scheduled routes to those neighborhoods just to properly evaluate LRT demand. I feel that in keeping with this concept, select neighborhoods could have autonomous vehicles serving as a form of PRT service as feeders to the LRT/BRT services as basically a manual version was used in the pilot program which justified the LRT in the first place...
2:42 Let me explain the ticket validator, so you can buy a ticket book with 10 tickets and they need to be given to a bus driver or put in the validator, if you put a ticket from the ticket book in to the validator, it will give you a paper ticket like the one you just got.
Ah so just like the old ones in Edmonton! They will all be gone by the end of this year! Thanks anyways!
The 23 is slated to become another Max line. It will be nice to have more connectivity
Woah! Tell me more about it!
@@morethantransitt I don't know much. Aside from they've already made some upgrades to intersections, and I've seen some of the route ahead documents that show that it would be a high value conversion. I wish I could share pictures I found of the proposed Max routes here
6:08 yo the cheeto! My little brother helped build that!
i like calgary transit
2:09 As a calgarian who doesn't have a car and needs to use transit, i can tell you that i have never seen more than 5 people on max teal.
OP 1:22 pm
We hope you got permission from the City of Calgary City Hall for these videos. 🤔 Good summary. 😊 You did missed some points only Calgarians know. Check them out. 😊🚐🚎🚌
lol you don't need permission to ride a bus