(08-06-2016, 10:49 PM)Canard Wrote: Perhaps better for the ion thread, but I'm curious - if there were no stop at Seagram, that'd be an awfully long stretch with no stations, between UoW and Waterloo Town Square, don't you think?
I think most would agree that's too far between stations. It's not about removing the Seagram stop, just moving it. Shift Seagram up to University, and shift the UW stop up to Columbia. Maybe also the R&T park stop to Bearinger, but that's less clear because neither is a transit/walking destination.
With the stations positioned at major cross corridors the network would be easier to understand. The University Ave iXpress would go straight on University Ave, and a stop named University would be on University Ave. It's a much friendlier system for those that aren't familiar with it. It also makes more sense for students to walk along University than Seagram to get to the Laurier campus, because it's the same distance but would promote the urban development of University Ave (there's no shops/cafes on Seagram, and it's not zoned for them).
The Seagram stop is only located there as a political concession to Laurier, so that there would be a UW stop and a Laurier stop, rather than one stop just called University (and a separate one called Columbia). Because then it would look like UW had two stops and Laurier had zero, despite it being the same distance from Laurier's campus.