12-21-2020, 02:39 PM
(12-21-2020, 07:28 AM)KevinT Wrote:(12-14-2020, 03:05 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: I will also take this opportunity to once again argue that the LRT should have continued along the freight railway, to a grade separated station at Block Line, then turned towards the hydro corridor between the car dealership and the mattress place. While they were at it, they could have built segregated bike lanes and a sidewalk on Courtland, as well as a trail from Block line to Balzer Rd, as well as connecting to the back of the towers on Fallowfield cutting 600 meters off their walk to the LRT station.
I daydream about this every time I ride through that section. What a wasted opportunity...
That would have been a bad route, IMO. Think of the work necessary to get accessible stairs and a ramp down to the bottom of the corridor for a station there. Also, the nearest track at the bottom is a bit more than 90m from the current station platform, straight line distance, so a switchback ramp and stairs at AODA maximum grade would potentially double that distance. That would add a couple minutes to get to the station for healthy people, more for people with mobility issues, and thus reduce the catchment area on the other side of Courtland Ave., not to mention how it makes transferring to and from busses less convenient, too.