03-11-2022, 08:55 PM
(03-11-2022, 05:07 PM)Bytor Wrote:(03-10-2022, 06:02 PM)ijmorlan Wrote: I’m thinking back to the old interurbans, which were effectively streetcar lines that extended out into the country. The idea is that we don’t necessarily need the huge volumes required to justify a full sized GO train. On the other hand, those interurbans were built when the roads were terrible; it may be that what makes sense in the modern context is buses, not long LRT lines.
I really wish that the RoW would change GRT's focus from only K/W/C to *all* the *designated* urban areas in Waterloo, of which would include Elmira, St. Jacobs, Wellesley, Baden, New Hamburg, and Ayr, and then require 15 minute head way express busses between them and the cities.
This could make sense if enough people in those areas were to use transit. But currently those areas are highly car-oriented, and most of them are limited in the amount of land available for development in/near their core areas.