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ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Elevated transit can work if it's built out into the suburbs where there is land to spare or along wide roads that have room for the pylons. King Street in KW is none of those things and is already terrible to drive because of the sheer number of buses and a lack of space to put left-turn lanes. Since most of the destinations for the LRT are ground level along the route I dunno why anyone would put transit farther away from the stops than it needs to be.

There's also little reason to build LRT or any mass transit on the Iron Horse trail, there's not really any destinations or trip generators along most of its length that aren't better served by King Street.
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RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit - by clasher - 03-07-2015, 06:19 PM
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