03-19-2024, 02:17 PM
(03-19-2024, 01:35 PM)ac3r Wrote: Why does anyone think we need this? Cambridge is a regressive, anti-development, anti-transit, pro-car city with some of the most stringent NIMBY council and voters. Why does it need a train when they don't want anything? I'd rather see Metrolinx put this money and resources into improving existing services. We don't even have reliable all day train service to Kitchener or the multimodal train station that has been planned for, what, a decade now? Yet they want to build entirely new rail and trainstations...to Cambridge? That makes as much sense as opening a GO train to Wellesley.
omg let's open a GO train to Wellesley, I'd love to visit my family without the half hour drive.
Alternatively, if Cambridge never gets any resources, they will continue to be stuck in their car-centric mindset forever. Right now, everyone wants things to stay in the status quo because it's too hard to get anywhere without a car, particularly for all the folks who work in Toronto but drove down the 401 until they could afford a home. Of course those people don't want the LRT to narrow Hespeler Rd when they need to take Hespeler to reach the 401 every day. However, the combination of LRT and GO, with stronger connectivity at both the regional and intercity levels, might just be enough to get enough people in Cambridge to buy into the mindset shift we've already seen in Kitchener.