David A
Senior Member
Actually, you are the one who used the words misleading, smoking gun, conspiracy and doing their jobs in bad faith.
Ebus has routes that stop at the International Airport.
Ebus has routes that stop at the International Airport.
Discount version of Red Arrow. In existence before the demise of Greyhound.I haven't seen any advertising for this Ebus route to the airport. Hell, I don't even know what an Ebus is!!! Is it one of Greyhound's bus replacements?
Sorry but who would use this service for $42? I just looked and an Uber from center of DT to YEG is $43. I imagine a cab is probably around the sameInteresting. Didn't know of this service.
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I feel the numbers are inflated too. I don't know what the spare ratio would be, but this is the sort of critical evaluation of what administration presents that should regularly occur. Did any one on council question this?I agree with those that think the numbers in the report were inflated. I haven't run the numbers on potential service hours, but, the amount of buses that are suggested to be required makes zero sense at all.
The 747 has a fleet of 4 buses for the service. Round trips are scheduled to be 1 hour, requiring 2 buses at peak times.
A route from Downtown, according to Google, could be upwards of 1h 5m at peak times, so padding that, lets say 1h 15 m for a round trip time of 2h 30m. That would require 5 buses for 30 minute service. Worst case scenario you need 10 buses assigned to the service for 30 minute service, yet, Administration claims they would need 13 buses just for hourly service.
However, using 10 buses for the route with 5 deployed at once would mean that the spare ratio is 100% and that is ridiculous. Industry standard is closer to 15-20%. For the 747 I can appreciate having 4 buses, however with a larger fleet of airport buses you don't need a 100% spare ratio. I'm not even sure the report factored in combining the 747 fleet with the Downtown airport route fleet to gain efficiencies.
If you need 5 buses for Downtown, 2 for Century Park, then surely 4 spare buses should be sufficient for 11 buses total. A far cry from 18 Administration claims.
Sorry but who would use this service for $42? I just looked and an Uber from center of DT to YEG is $43. I imagine a cab is probably around the same
I suspect it would have been the same as the existing 747.I wonder how much a fare would have been from downtown to the International Airport. Perhaps a route from EIA to Strathcona, across the Walterdale, up 101 Street, turn at 104 Avenue, returning south on 100 Street, across the river to Scona Road, west on Sask Drive to 104 Street, and south to the airport.
With a little bit more time I dug into the figures quoted to provide the service.I agree with those that think the numbers in the report were inflated. I haven't run the numbers on potential service hours, but, the amount of buses that are suggested to be required makes zero sense at all.
If we're still talking about the proposed service, the report clearly stated regular transit buses outfitted with luggage racks, like the 747's fleet.Depends as they really needed to make the Downtown Express a motor coach, not an ETS bus.
$30-40 would have made sense.