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Every intersection in Winnipeg I’ve come across has an audible signal, even just pedestrian signals too

I find St. Albert to be far too dependent on the park and ride system, seems like many local buses are empty these days

Amazing video - super clear and very good suggestions

Where I live now I ironically think doesn't make enough use of park and ride. There are a lot of places with very large parking lots with a lot of excess parking that they don't need, that are already adjacent to bus stops, that our transit agency could very easily negotiate permission for transit riders to park there. Obviously, redeveloping those excess parking areas into something more useful would be ideal, but as something that can be done essentially overnight to make more use of the space and drive transit ridership, we could do a lot worse. Hell, half of the parking lots that I'm thinking of are already used by people doing park and ride without permission, who just risk it, so there is obviously some latent demand for it. Especially given how limited, and expensive, parking is at our local university, they'd probably fill entire buses with college students alone taking advantage of it. Then again, that might be a large part of why they don't go to the effort to make it official and don't encourage it, because parking fees are way too big of a revenue source for the university and the university has a lot of sway in city and county politics. It's the same reason that most airports in the United States don't have very good transit access. When the cheapest parking (which requires taking a shuttle bus back onto campus anyway) is $84 a semester and most parking garages/lots charging $269 a semester, it's no wonder the university doesn't want students using alternative means of getting to and from campus.

I think that the Utah Transit Authority did a pretty good job with their park and ride program. The largest parking lots were either in far flung outlying areas or in areas that were in distress, but anticipated to in the future see revitalization, with the parking lot essentially acting as a temporary service until the area was ready to be redeveloped into a higher and better use. Also, the stations essentially always have direct access to the street with the parking being behind or to the side (or in one case completely separate from the station). I don't live in Salt Lake anymore, so I don't keep up with all the redevelopment, but at least two stations have seen more than half of their parking converted into mixed use housing... something I'm sure the transit authority saw a decent return on investment on purchasing that land.

calgary :D

Here in Seattle, there is a mix of park and ride and high density residential. It is a balanced approach and suitable for a region that will never not be suburban and that relies in suburban approved tax levies and car registration fees to both expand and maintain the network. It has been made abundantly clear to sound transit: if you're going to tax car drivers, you will provide park and rides or you will fail at the ballot just as they did when they tried to get urbanite only plans. Transit dependent development is still happening around stations, so it is finally defeating the idea you cannot have a parking structure and residential co existing. We see this already working extremely well at Lynnwood, Northgate, shoreline, and mount lake terrace. Seattle also has massive convention centers and three major stadiums within walking distance of its train lines. On weekends when there is a game, park and rides are full of, you guessed it, suburbanites enjoying the parking and rail they approved in their taxes and sold as a benefit of why they should vote yes to perpetual taxation if they are within the area. None of this comes to the disadvantage of transit dependent residents as the garages are stacked or underground so the actual footprint leaves plenty of room for all kinds of other buildings. The parking structure also serves as bus turnaround for feeder lines and connections from local agencies. Seattle often calls these transit centers, not just park and rides, to indicate that they serve both suburban users with cars and car free users. Isn't it nice when we can put the debates aside and realize, oh, let's make transit work for EVERYONE. Lastly, the idea we need to recoup the investment in parking garages is as silly as the idea we need to recoup the investment of the trains in fares. As I mentioned Seattle isn't running an investment to see a return. The cost was passed to taxpayers at the federal or local level depending on the mix of grants vs loans. Maintenance will always be a tax burden. Fares or parking fees are not expected, nor should they be expected to break even. It is the same for roads, bridges, ferries and so on. What is it with this idea we need to recoup parking but not everything else? Doesn't make any logical sense. Public infrastructure never directly returns the money to tax payers. Its a cost. And since you'll be taxed until you are no longer alive, it is not a cost that is ever expected to be recouped.

1. put the parking behind the station so entering from the sidewalk is easy 2. don't put the station out in the middle of nowhere unless its exclusive purpose is as a park n ride and/or a transfer hub between different agencies and modes 3. BIKE PARKING!!!!!! lots of it with secure monitored buildings. nobody wants to leave their bike chained to a ground staple in a dark corner or random concrete island that nobody is looking at for 7 hours while they're off somewhere else.

Depends.

P+R's could have saved cities

A good thing about parking lots is they can be repurposed easily, can be residentials, commercial facilities or multi-level parking garages, depending on future demands. So starting with park and ride stations is not so bad IMO especially in car centric suburbs. However, I think such stations should have at least small convenience stores nearby or inside stations so that railway company can make money from rent and kick start commercial activities around stations.

Justifying park-and-ride transit for concert or special events is kinda a skill issue in event organizing and allocation of services :/

Park and Ride is the bane of existence of any transit services

Great Video!

Then why are they broke?

Nice video. Too bad you had to visit in one of the coldest weeks of the year. 😕

It's really strange that the mid station Davis Station would be originally named Wagner. Wagner Vocational High School is 4 meandering blocks away. 15 minute walk on a good summer day, and 30 minutes on a winter day as there are no sidewalks or what few sidewalks there are are never shoveled.

We have these in Newcastle, England! Theyre automatically folded up and just one or two can be folded up so the person can sit if they want to and have space for their equipment! Works great

It works better in places with less “diversity”

Why did they turn it into a mall

Amor andar de trem ir passear na biblioteca do centro ❤

In montreal the buses seats are folded by default so its easier for the wheelchairs to get parked

Pedestrian street with on-street parking?...

Gotta love family friendly bus policies.

Thanks!

Helloride is $1/30 mins. + sub 10 mins 50 cents

There’s another benefit to small buses & cutaway buses. Not only can they be cheaper but they also might require easier to obtain licenses. In Ontario, a class C can drive a bus with up to 24 passengers. A cutaway bus might not have air brakes which negates the need for an air brake license (Z endorsement in Ontario). Cutaway buses also might not need special tools or equipment for servicing making a service garage cheaper to set up or not requiring one altogether if servicing is subcontracted to a local garage or dealer.

6:08 yo the cheeto! My little brother helped build that!

They didn't elevate the line past WEM for the same reason that they didn't elevate it near Bonnie Doon - most of city council doesn't care about Edmontonians commuting by automobile.

Effing Up a Major Traffic Feed To/From Downtown and the West End. Effin Bike Lanes are also a Major part of the Problem

My city has announced a bike lane upgrade for my city. There was of course the "no one uses it" argument. However a pop up information, and feedback gathering booth held by the city was along the bike route in question. While I was there giving my feedback on what should be considered for building the project. Multiple people on bikes and scooters were going by even though it is currently only a painted gutter. The city planners commented that it was nice to see that it's being used and definitely needs the upgrade.

If small town can’t have small then why is there a Planned High Speed Rail In California Which i support that project and before you ask, no it’s not failed, it’s good actually, because they should at least connect to their local transit in small cities are Palmdale, Madera, Fresno, Merced, Stockton, Modesto And Gilroy, it could bring Buses and Light Rail to their small town too where the high speed rail station is located, Subway is good but it’s too expensive to build it, So not only the public transit is good to small cities in California but also in America and International countries.

great point about minimum wage workers ad induced poverty due to lack of transit

Pretty accurate meme.

No people started buying cars because they became more affordable making public transit obsolete. 🤡🌐

On demand service is almost always a terrible idea! 😤

Yea. I heard bus drivers needing to pee in bottles bc of not enough break time. I would never want to do that. I also as a passenger need at least 3 minutes of time to transfer between busses and other busses (or smth else like streetcars, LRTs and trains) at some large terminals or connections between different modes of transit

Some pretty interesting solutions but I was definitely caught off guard when you said cities below 1 million people. Like, there's only one city in my whole country of Denmark which has over 1 million people, and a small city here is typically considered one with around 50.000 people or less. Of which i am from one, Hillerød, with 36.000 residents and close proximity to the capital city Copenhagen. We do actually have one of the best bus systems in Denmark for a town our size with 2 urban routes running every 20 minutes during the day and once per hour on evenings and sundays. Alongside several once per hour bus routes to other smaller towns in the municipality. Plus 4 different regional bus routes that run between every 15 minutes and once per hour depending on the route and 5 different passenger rail lines. All the buses generally run until 10pm and until 11pm on friday and saturday nights. Though we're far better off than a lot of the country which have no evening bus service at all and their towns bus routes shut down completely by 6pm. Though it aint perfect. Tickets here and in Denmark as a whole are generally integrated nationwide and cross compatible across buses and trains, even our state railways. But this also leads to a crazy conveluted ticketting system with tonnes of zones that many struggle to navigate. And this is on top of having super high prices, about twice the prices for transit as in Vancouver Canada for a comparable example. We also struggle a ton with having nice and inviting bus terminals and train stations here as our officials are high on micromanaging economics for efficiency gains. The bus station here in Hillerød is one of the few nationwide which has a roof at all, but its also from 1980, run down, heavily vandalised, the bolts holding benches onto wooden wall collumns are in such bad shape the benches lean forward just by sitting on them, and moss grows through the roofs and makes rainwater leak through. We do also have a text service for departure times but nobody uses it. It runs with a user charge of 5 DKK or 1 Canadian dollar per time its used. By comparison, Data plans are dirt cheap here, like 50gb a month and unlimited calls and text for something like 20 CAD a month. Not to mention we have a whole thing with phone dependency. The bus stops here dont even have schedules anymore as officials thought they were a needless waste cause "According to our studies, majority of passengers plan their journey in advance with the journey planner website or app anyway". We technically also have a nationwide Dial-a-ride service but it is really bad. It uses an entirely separate and very expensive fare system from the rest of transit, it needs to be booked at least 2 hours in advance, it is very unreliable (All times Ive used it, I've had to wait between 20 and 40 minutes after the scheduled pickup time, causing me to miss the connections I were booked to reach), and the vehicles arent particularly accessible. It really is just a bad taxi. Thankfully one of the transit agencies in Denmark are trialling a more modern version of demand responsive transit in a small town called Haslev. Theirs uses an app and call center to book journeys, which are fixed to going between bus stops, but which uses actual minibuses with accessibility, and can be booked on a very short notice. I've tried it and all my trips had just between 8 and 22 minutes between I booked the bus and the bus came. I will say though that while I wish our transit here could improve, and I know it can, it won't happen. Our government has one of the tigthest economic laws in the EU which puts a stranglehold on municipal and regional budgets. And our Liberatarian minister for transport has commissioned an "expert committee" that he himself put together to look at reforming and improving public transit. Sounds good, but the catch is that it must not cost any more to operate than the current transit nationwide (which is already cash strapped). So all the reports so far are suggesting are to basically replace rural small town bus lines with carpooling and ubers and *maybe* those improved dial a rides that can be booked spontaniously for "High demand periods".... not looking very bright.

My city has about 1 million people in it but it’s dense enough that I can walk pretty much anywhere. We have two tram lines but they’re mostly useless. The thing that makes it work though is that we have great heavy rail connection. I think that’s how it is especially for small towns. If you can get out without a car and the city isn’t designed by idiots it doesn’t even need much transit.

The fact that Arlington, Texas has more people than Saskatoon, Regina, Red Deer and more has zero public transit since 2017 because of their state gas tax law.

Yup. I’ve seen drivers try to rush eat and I have a theory it’s behind all these drivers falling asleep behind the wheel.

saskatoon mentioned :DDDD

Re waiting: having relied on many rural and semi-rural bus systems in the US and UK, I can definitively state that it's better for a bus to be 10 minutes late than leave 1 minute early.

Odd so bus centric, but I guess that is a North American thing. My local city (Toulouse population is about 500,000 with about 1 million in the metro area depending what you count) probably fits your definition of a smaller city. It currently has 2 metro lines and is digging a 3rd, has a long tram line, brt services and an urban gondola along with extensive local buses and even a little heavy rail too. Look at what is possible for smaller cities outside of North America and you will be surprised!

Trolleybusses are better than battery-electric busses

In my country, Greece, outside of Athens, many teenagers are sadly killed in motorcycle accidents. In Athens, due to the presence of public transport, teenagers needn't rely on motorcycles.

I like how you call out Winnipeg then immediately show the exact same lines I use 😭

Luckily I live in Europe. My city has only 140,000 inhabitants, but there are four tram lines that run every 6 minutes, further there are also three-section articulated buses. The network is completed by 10 regional train stations within the city limits plus one main station with long distance services.

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