anyfong Posted March 15, 2018 Report Share Posted March 15, 2018 17 hours ago, Transit geek said: Definitely worth the investment for high-capacity service. The corridor would also make an excellent route for a median lanes that could be upgraded to LRT at a later date. I wouldn't go into a street-level light rail. Look at all the problems it produces especially when it comes to cars colliding with trains. The Métrobus is good enough for now but it needs investment into more segregated bus lanes. This site pretty much sums it all: http://skytrainforsurrey.org/issues/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doppelkupplung Posted March 15, 2018 Report Share Posted March 15, 2018 4 minutes ago, anyfong said: I wouldn't go into a street-level light rail. Look at all the problems it produces especially when it comes to cars colliding with trains. The Métrobus is good enough for now but it needs investment into more segregated bus lanes. This site pretty much sums it all: http://skytrainforsurrey.org/issues/ Especially as RTC has a well-established metrobus system. Dedicated lanes are the way to go. A precedent for this will be MiWay's route 100, which goes to the airport via Tway. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anyfong Posted March 15, 2018 Report Share Posted March 15, 2018 Just now, Doppelkupplung said: Especially as RTC has a well-established metrobus system. Dedicated lanes are the way to go. A precedent for this will be MiWay's route 100, which goes to the airport via Tway. I wonder about the proposed region-wide BRT system proposed in around 2014. A very good proof-of-concept, but doesn't appear to have made any progress to get it off the drawing board. http://blog.daryldelacruz.com/2018/02/06/quebec-city-brt-video-light-rail-fan-worst-nightmare/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doppelkupplung Posted March 15, 2018 Report Share Posted March 15, 2018 7 minutes ago, anyfong said: I wonder about the proposed region-wide BRT system proposed in around 2014. A very good proof-of-concept, but doesn't appear to have made any progress to get it off the drawing board. http://blog.daryldelacruz.com/2018/02/06/quebec-city-brt-video-light-rail-fan-worst-nightmare/ "Bi articulated" buses. Okay then...ring up VanHool, RTC. lol Since this plan involves modelling based upon a European system, we must consult @Transit geek for his insight on this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SMS Posted March 15, 2018 Author Report Share Posted March 15, 2018 Will the existing (limited) bus service still exist to YQB airport? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eclair14 Posted March 15, 2018 Report Share Posted March 15, 2018 4 hours ago, SMS said: Will the existing (limited) bus service still exist to YQB airport? Probably not... In RTC news, the tramway announcement will be held tomorrow at 1:15pm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommike Posted March 17, 2018 Report Share Posted March 17, 2018 tram bus is a van hool bus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_the_traveller Posted March 18, 2018 Report Share Posted March 18, 2018 Encouraging news about the Réseau structurant de transport collectif. However I think it's safe to say this is merely an election promise. No matter who wins the October election, I think we can expect some major changes to the plan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
webfil Posted March 18, 2018 Report Share Posted March 18, 2018 12 hours ago, Chris_the_traveller said: Encouraging news about the Réseau structurant de transport collectif. However I think it's safe to say this is merely an election promise. No matter who wins the October election, I think we can expect some major changes to the plan. Indeed. A minority of wackos in Jambonville yell louder than anybody else, so I would not be surprised that the 3 G$ invested in this project might be spended by buying a major league hockey team to fill their half-a-billion junior-league hockey arena. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Transit geek Posted March 24, 2018 Report Share Posted March 24, 2018 Watch this video of bi-articulated buses in Utrecht, Netherlands, operating the highly-patronized bus line 12 to De Uithof. This route, which handles 25,000 riders daily, is due to be replaced by a light rail line, but has been repeatedly delayed. The light rail is now estimated to begin service next year, and will eventually handle 45,000 daily passengers by 2020. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doppelkupplung Posted March 24, 2018 Report Share Posted March 24, 2018 What does this have to do with RTC? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eclair14 Posted March 24, 2018 Report Share Posted March 24, 2018 29 minutes ago, Doppelkupplung said: What does this have to do with RTC? Because RTC want's a "tram bus" and those kind of vehicules could run on that route Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommike Posted April 25, 2018 Report Share Posted April 25, 2018 have you got more of the van hool 330? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eclair14 Posted April 25, 2018 Report Share Posted April 25, 2018 12 hours ago, tommike said: have you got more of the van hool 330? So far no, 1801 still not in public service Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommike Posted April 26, 2018 Report Share Posted April 26, 2018 ok thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eclair14 Posted May 19, 2018 Report Share Posted May 19, 2018 Finallly, RTC will do some more change to it's network for 2018. The Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures city will see major changes to it's bus network, which RTC inherited from Autocars Québec when they taken control about 8 years ago. Here is what is currently proposed. - Bus 92 would mainly focus on the downtown St-Augustin part, with faster and more direct service, bus route is significantly shorter in the Lac St-Augustin area with bus using Hétrière street instead of doing the tour. The biggest change would be in Ste-Foy, bus would proceed directly up A-540 to Laurier blvd, then bus is extended to end at Garneau CÉGEP at all time via Laurier, the Laval university campus, Quatre-Bourgois and Ste-Foy read. Service every 60 minutes or better 7 days a week (instead of all-time except peak travel currently). - NEW express 392 would do the bus 92 routing in St-Augustin downtown, then proceed directly to A-40, A-540, then following the 92 route in Ste-Foy, rush hour only in the peak travel direction only. - Bus 94 is intriguing, bus will now start at the CNDF campus, shorter route in Lac St-Augustin (where some riders will have to walk a lot more to get to their bus stop), then the bus will travel in Cap-Rouge serving areas already served by a bus route (14 / 15). Good news is that bus will finally allow access from Cap-Rouge riders to their commercial area next to A-40, bus would then use A-40,A-540 and follow the 92 routing in Ste-Foy. Service every 60 minutes or better 7 days a week (instead of peak travel currently). - Express 294 & 295 would be deleted under current proposal, forcing parlement hill bound customers to make a transfer on Laurier Blvd. to / from a 11-800-801 bus. - Route 95 would also be deleted, mostly replaced by the 92/94 changes On side notes - The 2 trippers in the isolated north part of St-Augustin are removed, replaced by taxibus service avaliable at all departures (huge improvement) - Chemin du Lac will go from 5 bus (92-94-95-295-992) to zero bus, this also somewhat isolated area will also be served by taxibus avaliable at all departures Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eclair14 Posted May 30, 2018 Report Share Posted May 30, 2018 RTC has announced the fares hikes for 2018 ... - The borderline stupid due to price difference off-peak 65+ unlimited pass is abolished, instead it's replaced with a 10 tickets valid off-peak (but NOT on Sat - Sun) offer for 20$ - Modest fare hike for 2018, less then inflation for most fares , one again, except the 65+ that goes up nearly 3$ to 56.15$, there should be one last year of this kind as they will catch up to student fares (what RTC wants) next year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eclair14 Posted June 9, 2018 Report Share Posted June 9, 2018 1801 Vanhool A330K was spotted in service yesterday, acting as a "doubleur" on route 11 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommike Posted June 26, 2018 Report Share Posted June 26, 2018 any pic or vid of 1801 in service Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommike Posted July 11, 2018 Report Share Posted July 11, 2018 hows the van hool working and any had a ride in it yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomasw Posted July 23, 2018 Report Share Posted July 23, 2018 Could someone please edit the wiki to note that 0901 is now L0901 and that 0620 is now L0620 Today (July 23 2018) I also spotted a 02XX unit being towed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomasw Posted July 24, 2018 Report Share Posted July 24, 2018 I was doing some research and found photographic edvidence that 0601 is equipped with a baultar driver seat 0614 is L0614 0724 is L0724 source: http://www.busfanplace.com/stcuq_list/rtc_list.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomasw Posted July 26, 2018 Report Share Posted July 26, 2018 Just spotted 1605 and a couple other 40 footers on metro bus route 803 Does this happen often or are there many 60 footers in for repairs meaning that there is a shortage or 60 footers so RTC is forced to use 40 footers on metro bus routes? Thanks, Thomas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eclair14 Posted July 26, 2018 Report Share Posted July 26, 2018 On 7/22/2018 at 10:09 PM, Thomasw said: Could someone please edit the wiki to note that 0901 is now L0901 and that 0620 is now L0620 Today (July 23 2018) I also spotted a 02XX unit being towed "L" means bus has a limited use, so those bus will work rush hours and some week-ends (to rack up millage, weekday peak not enough). Wiki is not updated to track the "L" buses Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomasw Posted July 27, 2018 Report Share Posted July 27, 2018 4 hours ago, eclair14 said: "L" means bus has a limited use, so those bus will work rush hours and some week-ends (to rack up millage, weekday peak not enough). Wiki is not updated to track the "L" buses Actually as you see in the following link every bus (under the column status/disposal) will either be written Active, Active - On limited use or Retired So as you see editing the wiki would be useful and would keep the wiki up to date Next time instead of posting stuff up here just so that your number of posts goes up, do a little research instead https://cptdb.ca/wiki/index.php/Réseau_de_transport_de_la_Capitale_0001-0025 https://cptdb.ca/wiki/index.php/Réseau_de_transport_de_la_Capitale_0401-0431 https://cptdb.ca/wiki/index.php/Réseau_de_transport_de_la_Capitale_0701-0750 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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