01-28-2016, 04:32 PM
(01-28-2016, 04:04 PM)alexsmith Wrote: Does anyone know how GRT is going to deal with all the students from the McCormick 200 Ixpress stop? There is no planned Ion stop there, and the 9 will not be able to handle the increase in riders. The 200 can barely handle the current amount of riders during peak hours as it is, and a large majority of the riders are getting on/off at the McCormick stops in the morning/evening. The 9 might be able to handle the addition of the WLU (the Ion won't service WLU), but it couldn't handle both WLU and UW students, which it does service.
This seems like the perfect spot for a stop, tons of riders, access from both Albert and Parkside, space to build it. It wouldn't function as a commuter stop, but the Northfield and R&T stops can act as the commuter stops because there is space for parking.
And just to make sure people don't think I am being selfish and just fighting to get a stop near me, I am going to be finished school and off doing my Ph.D. (hopefully outside of Canada) before the Ion is finished.
I think this would have been a good spot for a station. There are a lot of people that live near McCormick, including many students and lower-income people that really need public transit. Maybe GRT could modify routes to connect from the current McCormick stop to the R&T Park and/or Northfield stations.
I think it would have been idea to put ION stations at McCormick, Columbia, and University Avenue. But I understand that there was some politics involved with the locations that were chosen.