(07-06-2022, 06:51 PM)bravado Wrote: I'm currently listening in on the Region's Zoom call for the latest Official Plan updates and John Lubczinski (a regional planner) specifically talked about Ottawa St as a major east-west route that is to be intensified heavily and even hinted directly at it being the next option for Ion Phase 3. It was interesting, to say the least.
Ottawa is slowly seeing densification, so it would actually be a viable route to take.
YKF Station, Breslau Station, Grand River Station (as in the rec complex school), Stanley Park Station (the mall), Auditorium Station, maybe King/Ottawa Station to provide a quick link to Borden, turn Mill Station into an interchange, run it down maybe Homer Watson though there's little to develop there unless industrial businesses began to sell, Pioneer Drive Station and Constoga College Station. If I had a magic wand I'd have it continue on over the river along Fountain Street so it could connect Preston Centre and Cambridge Memorial, both of which are not going to be connected to Line 2/the Cambridge extension.
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You could always have it skip going south to Conestoga College (down Homer Watson) and carry on Ottawa, but then all it would really connect to are existing single family home neighbourhoods and very popular power centres for shopping, both of which do great business and wouldn't ever redevelop anytime soon. Not good areas for densification...but Home Watson has a lot of industrial areas that could one day be good real estate.