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ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
(03-08-2015, 07:13 AM)Canard Wrote: When elevated is built above roads, it can take away no lanes of traffic below (or sidewalk, or cyclist paths, or Kale shops) as the pylons take up as much space as a garbage can.  When it's not above roads, and just over regular land, parks can be built under it, with paths, etc...

LRT can never do this because it is at-grade.  It's not that complicated to understand.

I don't think it's bad to take away lanes of traffic. There are other routes that one can take if one is driving a car. Why should we privilege automobile traffic on King Street? Automobile traffic is low-efficiency and erects a barrier for people trying to be on the street in any other form. Bike lanes and sidewalks both have far more capacity than road lanes.
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RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit - by plam - 03-08-2015, 11:31 AM
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