Comment 106383

By notlloyd (registered) - website | Posted November 20, 2014 at 18:46:29 in reply to Comment 106371

If I may, I am interested in this as it touches on the principal of fairness that is important to me.

I looked up the stats as best I could. The best I found are these. http://www.hamilton.ca/NR/rdonlyres/2790...

They don't break down the numbers tight enough to be accurate on the dedicated bus lane route. But I think they are good enough to say this.

The University line is almost completely dedicated to the route in question and so if 7,000.00 riders use it, 3,500 would be on the dedicated lane. King and Delaware have about 11 or 12 thousand each but they travel the length of the city. So if we say half those go beyond downtown, then the numbers would be about 3,000 each. So about 10,000 HSR riders use that particular route each work day and about 2000 Go users do. That means 12,000 bus riders go down the dedicated bus lane each day.

If there are 36,000 cars using 3 lanes that's 12,000 a lane. (There are only two lanes most of the way but why quibble because hardly anyone parks on King between Queen and Dundurn and at rush hour the lanes are free.)

That seems to justify the bus lane all on its own. at least from James to Dundurn. It doesn't support the contention that the bus lane support more users than the other lanes, but it does seem reasonable to me.

Frankly I was surprised by the numbers. I did not know that many cars drove down that street and I thought the bus numbers would be lower as well.

What I wonder about is what would happen if the space available for vehicular traffic is reduced significantly.

Comment edited by notlloyd on 2014-11-20 18:47:19

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