ETS Bus and General Transit Improvements

[northlands]

As part of the Transit Priority Measures work, the city will be removing the scramble crosswalks on Whyte Ave.

Kind of puzzling to include the 105 & Whyte scramble (easily the most logical spot for one in the whole city), but if it's all or nothing I'll take the latter here.

Now get rid of all the scrambles downtown, which are all entirely redundant.

 

[thommyjo]

Kind of puzzling to include the 105 & Whyte scramble (easily the most logical spot for one in the whole city), but if it's all or nothing I'll take the latter here.

Now get rid of all the scrambles downtown, which are all entirely redundant.

Remove scrambles, but also cut in half the intersection cycle times. Why a pedestrian is waiting 60-120 seconds at lights in our downtown is beyond stupid. 30-45 seconds tops. Keep people moving. Especially in the cold.

 

[David A]

Remove scrambles, but also cut in half the intersection cycle times. Why a pedestrian is waiting 60-120 seconds at lights in our downtown is beyond stupid. 30-45 seconds tops. Keep people moving. Especially in the cold.

The lights on Jasper are also still badly timed for pedestrians, I seem to get from one block to the next just when the light turns red and have to wait at almost every block.

 

[TAS]

Remove scrambles, but also cut in half the intersection cycle times. Why a pedestrian is waiting 60-120 seconds at lights in our downtown is beyond stupid. 30-45 seconds tops. Keep people moving. Especially in the cold.

Yup. 101st and 103Ave is in that too long a wait category. The crossing is a beg button and during morning/afternoon commutes up until 6pm, pedestrians are standing in the cold for long periods.

 

[Seamusmuldrew]

I do like the 105 and Whyte scramble but won’t be heartbroken. I would be thrilled if they kept right on red restricted at 105, 104 and Gateway.

Edit: actually just anywhere with high pedestrian traffic

 

[ADob]

I'd vote for no right on red anywhere, like they do in many other jurisdictions.

 

[Edmcowboy11]

I'd vote for no right on red anywhere, like they do in many other jurisdictions.

Oh man I can only imagine the amount of crying there would be if that happened here in the city.

 

[ADob]

Because of course car convenience outweighs human safety at all times. But hey, we're all about "Vison Zero", baby!

 

[biketime]

News piece from CBC The National with a strong focus on crime on ETS.

 

[thommyjo]

News piece from CBC The National with a strong focus on crime on ETS.

To whoever it was on the other thread questioning my “massive claim” about how a small number of people commit most of the crimes… the video said it about 4 different ways and the comments have the same data being shared too.

This really is an issue of a few hundred criminals in most cities causing disproportionate disorder and violence.

We need people with clear track records of crime to be kept out of the public on their own. That simple. No reason a 5x repeat violent offender, especially when they’re random, should ever be allowed alone in public imo. It’s literally Russian roulette with the public. And our society’s more vulnerable are the ones impacted most…. Students, elderly, women, lower income.

Not to sound crass, but if some judges took transit and a few of them got assaulted, we might actually see change. But driving from St. Albert in their 100k+ SUVs into parkades doesn’t make them face the consequences of their choices.

 

[trevorhayden]

Not a good piece for ETS at the worst possible time. Whatever happened to supporting public transport?

 

[northlands]

^ Yeah I hope this leads to more improvements regarding transit safety etc, but I'm not really sure more awareness is needed on this topic. The state of public transit everywhere in this country is absolutely no secret to anyone. We know the primary factors driving all of this are generally outside of ETS/City of Edmonton hands. Not to say there isn't blood on the City for this (they should have NEVER allowed LRT stations to ever be de facto shelters) but outside of spending even more money on TPOs to shuffle the deck chairs there isn't really a solution available to them.

So in all reality all this piece is really going to do is make more people less enticed to ride it, and for those staunchly opposed, to reinforce their beliefs of "look how dangerous and disgusting our public transit is! I won't ever ride it and I don't want LRT near me or my neighborhood".

And nothing like it being on The National to really broadcast to the rest of the nation how Edmonton is a dangerous drug filled ****hole. The included yegwave videos were the icing on that cake.

 

[Blizzard]

I'm about as pro-CBC as they come.

But I do not appreciate public dollars going towards a hit-piece on national news that amounts to "YEGwave's Greatest Hits". There is nothing here that those in the know aren't already aware of, and everything to lose when it comes to the ability of Edmontonians to shit talk themselves better than the rest of the entire country.

If the CBC was looking for a way to show the death of traditional media in the face of social media, using B-roll plastered with a "YEGwave" watermark is the nail in the coffin.

I can't help but think someone at CBC saw how many clicks the struggles of LRT rollout in Ottawa and Toronto got and said, "Quick! Find something that doesn't make us look so bad!"

 

[Yeggy]

I'm about as pro-CBC as they come.

But I do not appreciate public dollars going towards a hit-piece on national news that amounts to "YEGwave's Greatest Hits". There is nothing here that those in the know aren't already aware of, and everything to lose when it comes to the ability of Edmontonians to shit talk themselves better than the rest of the entire country.

If the CBC was looking for a way to show the death of traditional media in the face of social media, using B-roll plastered with a "YEGwave" watermark is the nail in the coffin.

I can't help but think someone at CBC saw how many clicks the struggles of LRT rollout in Ottawa and Toronto got and said, "Quick! Find something that doesn't make us look so bad!"

its the “cops” esq production that burns my ass. Shakey Cam, anxiety music, and over use of words like Dangerous and violent.

 

[David A]

I'm about as pro-CBC as they come.

But I do not appreciate public dollars going towards a hit-piece on national news that amounts to "YEGwave's Greatest Hits". There is nothing here that those in the know aren't already aware of, and everything to lose when it comes to the ability of Edmontonians to shit talk themselves better than the rest of the entire country.

If the CBC was looking for a way to show the death of traditional media in the face of social media, using B-roll plastered with a "YEGwave" watermark is the nail in the coffin.

I can't help but think someone at CBC saw how many clicks the struggles of LRT rollout in Ottawa and Toronto got and said, "Quick! Find something that doesn't make us look so bad!"

I often watch or listen to CBC too, but often cringe these days about the quality of stuff they put on. Perhaps someone in their eastern base thought it would be easy and safe for them just to just do a drive by slam of Edmonton.

It is often an uphill battle against central Canadian smug superiority and this is the sort of thing that furthers their slide into being a regional rather than a national broadcaster.