03-08-2015, 06:43 PM
(03-07-2015, 06:49 PM)BuildingScout Wrote:(03-07-2015, 06:19 PM)clasher Wrote: 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.
You are missing two very good reasons to build on the iron horse trail: it would be way cheaper and it already has the right of way.
I do agree with the rest of your comments, but again, is not like King St was ripe with possibilities either. In both cases most of the users will be there because the LRT was built there and not elsewhere. The same projects would have taken place along any routing of the LRT.
I dunno if the right-of-way is big enough for the double tracks in all places but I guess the additional land would be cheaper to acquire than the land needed along King Street.
I think a lot of people taking route 7 and the ixpress will become LRT users so most of them are already on King Street and going to destinations close to King.