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Originally Posted by lrt's friend
Who would regularly walk 30 minutes to rapid transit? And that is the closest point. I live in the Bank Street corridor, but it is so difficult for me to get to the urban part of Bank Street. Yes, I can walk 30 or so minutes to South Keys and another 30 or so minutes from Dow's Lake, but is that really useable transit on our city's main Street?
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That's not quite the point that I was trying to make. The fact that there's already a station within a 30 minute walk means that it's awfully close for a second parallel rapid transit service. You can do buses or even streetcars to provide transit on Bank and link it to rapid transit effectively. Those links already exist.
The only reason transit is slow and off schedule on Bank is traffic. If we got rid of the sacred on street parking you could provide efficient transit there by doing transit priority for far less than building a subway 2km from an existing rail line.
If Line 2 didn't exist my answer would be different, but since it does, a Bank St Subway is an expensive vanity project
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