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Is it just me, or do the LRT woes sound worse than they really are?

I’m a daily transit user who has taken more than 160 trips on the Confederation Line, and my experience just doesn’t seem to be reflected in daily news articles, social media posts, or transit organization emails I see. I may just be one of the lucky ones, having chosen years ago to move to a neighbourhood adjacent to the planned Stage One and transitioned away from daily driving. I walk to the station, have never waited more than seven minutes for a train to arrive and hop into a space that, at its worst, is just as crowded as express routes I use to take downtown.

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In all my trips during typical rush hour, I’ve been delayed twice, once on a train held at Parliament station for seven minutes as they had to single-line, due to a disabled train, and secondly during the Jan. 16 R1 detour in the east in which three buses would arrive every two to three minutes, and the journey from Hurdman platform to the third round of buses took under 10 minutes.