I feel peace of mind when I'm jumping around on the BRT corridors. Once I can get on a rapid service, I can be pretty confident I'll be able to get at least somewhere quickly.
To be honest, the best buses suited for the BRT routes are Electric Bi-Articulated units, like the ones to be used on the Brisbane Metro in Australia or the ones used in the recently launched Aalborg Plusbus in Denmark. Using current New Flyer/Novabus 60 foot units on BRT routes is most likely gonna lead to overcrowding relatively quickly unless the frequency is 99 B-Line levels of service, and even then who knows for how long such a service can go on for when it'll be bursting at the seams with passengers.
Unfortunately it is much harder for North American transportation agencies to get their hands on Bi-Articulated busses, when getting traditional Articulated busses is already hard enough
I far prefer rails but this is a good first step to see what next corridors truly could be rail-based. The 97, 98, and 99 B-Lines are all being converted to rail, after all.
This is really good stuff! Really hope we actually capitalize if the major benefit of BRT which is implication time. If we don't there was no reason we didn't go with rail. Also hope that once we have a strong regional backbone we start to replace these corridors with rail.
York Region guy here. I like how Vancouver is taking inspiration from our Viva BRT system. Maybe York Region could build a SkyTrain-like system in the future too, lol.
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I feel peace of mind when I'm jumping around on the BRT corridors. Once I can get on a rapid service, I can be pretty confident I'll be able to get at least somewhere quickly.
To be honest, the best buses suited for the BRT routes are Electric Bi-Articulated units, like the ones to be used on the Brisbane Metro in Australia or the ones used in the recently launched Aalborg Plusbus in Denmark. Using current New Flyer/Novabus 60 foot units on BRT routes is most likely gonna lead to overcrowding relatively quickly unless the frequency is 99 B-Line levels of service, and even then who knows for how long such a service can go on for when it'll be bursting at the seams with passengers.
Unfortunately it is much harder for North American transportation agencies to get their hands on Bi-Articulated busses, when getting traditional Articulated busses is already hard enough
I far prefer rails but this is a good first step to see what next corridors truly could be rail-based. The 97, 98, and 99 B-Lines are all being converted to rail, after all.
This is really good stuff! Really hope we actually capitalize if the major benefit of BRT which is implication time. If we don't there was no reason we didn't go with rail. Also hope that once we have a strong regional backbone we start to replace these corridors with rail.
Well, there's still the cost
Very good transportation system 👍🏻
York Region guy here. I like how Vancouver is taking inspiration from our Viva BRT system. Maybe York Region could build a SkyTrain-like system in the future too, lol.
We need some more types of transit in south delta like a night bus or another train line
Nice to see Khelsilem! Love his tweets
Is it 24/7?
Is the branding going to be baby blue then?
Nah that's York
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hi
first to watch the whole thing
but don't have an app 😂😂