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Originally Posted by d_jeffrey
I suggested building an underground station under Bronson, and doubling the tracks there up to confederation, where lines woud be split to Kanata, Barrhaven, Riverside South and South-East. There are talks for that by the STO. Trains are much faster than buses, so there's no point of sharing tracks with buses. It also prevents any future automation.
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Faster than 100 km/h? Buses have sidings all along the transitway, trains would have fewer stops. I can't imagine the trains would be that frequent, we were talking about one every 10 minutes. If you build a surface track, you can still move people around while the tunnel is being built. Sharing with buses until a complete build-out looks like a good solution. I the LRV are ever allowed to be automated, then a decision can be made to take buses off the ROW. Seems simple enough.
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Originally Posted by d_jeffrey
That way, LRT would be better balanced too, using the South-East Transitway instead of the O-Train corridor.
Staff tells us that that corridor is not "appropriate", and not dense enough, but it's the exact same one they came with the E-W LRT line, at 10x the price!
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I think we need to start smaller, like surface rail (higher capacity), then if population/taxes grow enough to support it, build a DT tunnel and convert to rapid transit. These big expensive plans are just pie in the sky.
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