EVs significantly reduce the marginal cost of driving, which is going to be a disaster for our cities. It now costs me $15 round-trip to drive from Vancouver to Seattle with up to 5 people. Why would I park my car and take transit once I get there? Road pricing will eventually prove essential.
I was thinking of taking the fam on the train to Leavenworth to see the Christmas lights this winter, but it would be $544 dollar for the four of us...
It would cost about $5.50 to drive our EV that distance.
BC Transit is updating the Victoria regional transit plan.
Questions up for discussion (survey linked) include: - How frequent is "frequent"? - What times of day should service run? - How many transfers is "too many"? - Where should expansion be prioritized?
Tragic events like this are all too common, yet they've for decades been dismissed as "it is what it is" in society's continuous pursuit to save seconds on the road.
Meanwhile, we're making it EASIER, not harder, to get a license in BC by removing the second road test.
Remember that in this case, that scheduled time **excludes**: - Time spent walking to/from the bus at the beginning and/or end - Time spent waiting for the bus - Time spent improvising a revised itinerary because your 52 got stuck on Sooke Rd for 45 mins just to get to Goldstream
20km is a distance where very few would choose to bike, and so the only way you induce a positive modal shift is by convincing people to take transit. Only problem right now with that is, the *scheduled* time for this 20km trip is slower than biking, to say nothing of the chronic peak unreliability.
With the CRD's geography, where half the region bottlenecks into 4 lanes daily, and road expansion is both not feasible and completely ineffective, traffic/grade-separated transit becomes the single most effective and transformational investment possible -- and it's high time we got started. 5/5
As the region, and most specifically the West Shore, continues to grow, it's time to invest in a stronger transit network to go with that growth -- one that people will *want* to use, that is fast, frequent, reliable, and not beholden the whims of daily traffic variations. 4/5
The ongoing bus-on-shoulder lanes will certainly help, but it's far from enough. As planned, it will have minimal effect on addressing the lengthy delays from a bus being stuck in typical peak traffic -- not to mention zero effect for cases like today where the entire road network gets crippled. 3/5
Even without an accident, "normal" traffic related delays propagate uncontrollably all over the region, even in areas as far away from that choke point as you can reasonably get. The morning Colwood Crawl is also worse than ever, with buses running over 30 minutes late a regular common sight. 2/5
Victoria Transit's network has a single point of failure at the geographic funnel between the Core and the West Shore, where any disruption (itself not exactly uncommon) results in crippling delays that cascade across the whole region. 1/5
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Meanwhile for Douglas St in Downtown Victoria, with over 60 buses per direction per hour during peaks, it's taken a decade for planning work to actually start, a year for a lackluster 10%-conceptual design to show up, and likely will take years longer for anything to happen. We can do better.
One month ago, these guys raced the bus on foot, and won. The city reacted, and finally put up a temporary bus lane pilot. They re-ran the race and the bus won.
Don't let anyone tell you that bus lanes have to take a year to install!
