edm13 said:
Do you think that would help though? They looked tampered with in about 20 different ways. I wonder if people without an arc card would just start booting the doors resulting in cracked glass and other damage
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Honestly now that I think about it, probably not. Unless they change the doors and make them stronger/more resistant to being tampered.
 
The ones that do work smell funny inside. Is that smell bad for us? I was going to wait in one with my year old daughter but wasn't sure if the chemicals could affect her so I opted to wait outside in the blustery cold.
 
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edm13 said:
I took the valley line from downtown to Millwoods for the first time yesterday. A few observations:

- about 5 young men hanging out in one of the shelters who then proceeding to stand on the tracks tempting the train driver, who had to hit his horn for them to move.
- activated my arc card for the first time. I was able to add cash to the card and tap it all very easily, no issue here.
- the train ride didn’t seem too long. I didn’t really notice the train stopping at lights.
- views are awesome
- didn’t see too many drug users. This was around 10am.
- the train from downtown to mill woods only had a hand full of people on my cart. However, the way back to downtown shortly after was much busier.
- the most disheartening part of the ride was seeing literally 50% of the shelter doors popped off, jammed open, not working, etc. I couldn’t believe how it is possible to have that many broken down doors. Some other solution is needed here asap.
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The one set of sliding doors at Corona Station is still boarded over, I think after a year or more because of repeated vandalism.

It looks so cheap and awful and I don't know why it hasn't been fixed after so long. Perhaps they just need to replace them with regular doors that you open by hand.
 
Kosy123 said:
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Decent growth so far in VLSE ridership.
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My numbers based on: https://public.tableau.com/app/prof...CardFebruary52023-April292023/RouteReportCard
For April 2023 the 73 had a ridership of 242,460.
There's still some 19,000 difference between the 73 Valley Line precursor and with the line actually running. It is MUCH better than even earlier in 2024, and much closer to what the 73 had. Could be even a counting discrepancy if the 73 was estimated higher than it actually was. ETS uses automatic passenger counters to determine bus ridership, and not every bus has APC's. I suspect every Valley Line car essentially has built in APC's so I assume that Valley Line figure is quite accurate.
 
Took the valley line for fun/to see how it is. On the way south, we barely waited at any intersections at all, maybe not even once. On the way back up we stopped at almost all intersections between Mill Woods and the elevated guideway, it was a little bit unreal. Why so inconsistent? Also I agree the sliding doors need to come off. Maybe regular doors and timed heaters like at the new NAIT station? At least for busier stations like Bonnie Doon and Churchill, then maybe no doors at stations like Muttart. Also this is gonna be very busy for folk fest, no doubt.
 
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