03-12-2022, 03:18 PM
(03-11-2022, 02:08 PM)Rainrider22 Wrote: For me the Victoria / Highland should be the next stage 3... This route would service the transit hub as well. If it ended at the Boardwalk, then the next natural progression would be that Waterloo route.
204 pre-pandemic was stagnated at roughly 2,250 weekday riders on average since at least 2016, maybe before, so no where near needing an LRT. Also, it was the only existing iXpress route that did not a see a bump in ridership when LRT service started in 2019.
Given that both Highland and Victoria terminate well south of the south end of the Boardwalk, I'm not sure that the Victoria/Highland route is the best one to get LRT access to The Boardwalk. The King/University/Erb route at least terminates at the north end of The Boardwalk, even i fthat isn't ideal.
Not turning onto Erb and just continuing down University Ave W to Ira Needles would get you to a central part of The Boardwalk, but there's that big gap ith no good destinations from Erb to Fischer-Hallman.
Unless one could build both Victoria/Highland and King/University/Erb routes and connect their tails via Ira Needles?