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Originally Posted by Mikeed
It will take a billion dollars to bring the trillium line to Confederation standards again- that's the starting point of this process.
Do we want to bring the Trillium Line up to Confederation spec? If so then we need to have it double tracked for most of the way and I didn't see the value in doing that while maintaining the SE transitway when we can convert half of it to make the Trillium Line better, make a better airport rail link and make a better Crosstown Transitway as already the plans for the Baseline transitway basically shrug when it comes to how to get the 88 onto the SE transitway better. Again most of the inner city bus lines should end at ether Baseline or Hurdman which is better served through the Baseline/Heron/Walkley corridor.
Anyone thinking OCtranspo should keep running rapid buses from Greenboro to Hurdman in the future after spending this much money on the Trillium Line is beyond me. Or else they don't want to see the Trillium line move outta the beta phase it's stuck in.
Trains Share track all the time. It doesn't need much of a plan. UP express, GO and VIA all share the lakeshore.
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Why is Route 88 a bigger priority over Route 98 when Route 98 carries more passengers and when Route 88 already uses the Transitway today?
Why is the number of transfers unimportant?
Why would we argue about the few people going from the airport to the rail station are being so badly inconvenienced by a downtown detour, when your proposal disconnects well established travel patterns on the SE Transitway forcing far more people to face exactly the same detour?