Originally Posted by
professorscott
I understand your point, Bham, and there are other things - the 53 has better service hours as well - but as a frequent 53 rider, there is a significant functional transit improvement, at least for people headed south. In my experience, the 53 frequently fills up to SRO by the time you get past Manchester, so if you actually wanted to ride within the midtown-downtown corridor, you have to stand [[best case) or the bus passes you by entirely and you have to wait for another bus. Also, the schedule, as on all DDOT routes, is to some extent a work of fiction, for a lot of reasons that are complicated and stubborn....
So people will ride QLine who just wouldn't ride the 53, and people who would be happy with either will have a better chance at sitting down on the streetcar. It's all good.