Cost of the SRB Pie-IX keeps climbing
The cost of the SRB Pie-IX keeps climbing with the extension of the original route down to Notre-Dame. Also the original plan involved conventional diesel buses, but now the intention is to buy electric buses.
By the time the SRB is completed, will anyone be commuting north-south along Pie-IX?
Faiz imam 11:28 on 2020-09-24 Permalink
I have not seen the data in a few years, but the current Pie-IX bus routes are still among the most busy in the city right? Job needs to get done.
And there are quite a few large infill construction in progress are along that axis. We need that project more and more over time.
DeWolf 11:39 on 2020-09-24 Permalink
Given that many low-income essential workers live in the neighbourhoods along Pie-IX, I would say it will be pretty heavily used.
Michael Black 12:07 on 2020-09-24 Permalink
For some reason maybe twenty years back I took the bus along Cote Vertu. It was packed, though late in the afternoon. I assumed it was full of workers who worked along that stretch.
That’s who we have to keep in mind when talking about public transit. If there was a surge in bicycle commuting this year, it surely came from those people, not people who have cars. I can, and do, avoid rush hour (though sometimes I’ve landed on a bus just as school let out). But I can’t imagine doing it every day on a jammed bus, even aside from the distance that many travel.
Ian 20:46 on 2020-09-24 Permalink
When I worked in light manufacturing I was the only person at the entire factory with over 300 employees that biked to work. If you go for a jaunt through light industrial VSL even now you will notice that none of the factories have bike racks. Might be different out at CV but I kind of doubt it… bicycling to work is not a typically working class thing.