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ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
(08-31-2015, 08:10 AM)SammyOES Wrote: I doubt it'll ever (in say the next 25-50 years) make sense to go to Guelph.  Between GO service and the new highway 7 I doubt there'd be anywhere close to enough demand to build out the LRT.

GO serves only the city centres, and is not likely to be better than hourly for quite some time. I'm suggesting a local route that's much more about connecting the areas on Victoria and Woodlawn with each other and with the two city centres.

As for demand, I think it could be there and it would also be a corridor that could be intensified. But the best way to measure demand is to create the route as a bus first.

(08-31-2015, 08:34 AM)Canard Wrote: But yeah, going to Guelph is kind of weird. Guelph doesn't have a good enough bus system to work with that, I don't think.

If an alignment went along Woodlawn, to downtown, and then to U of G, you would cover quite a lot even in the absence of other routes. But at any rate, the quality of a transit system is something that can be changed.
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RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit - by mpd618 - 08-31-2015, 10:07 AM
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