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ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
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05-02-2021, 04:18 PM
(05-02-2021, 04:13 PM)nms Wrote: For the Willis Way platform, to make it deeper, the platform would likely have needed to be on the west side of the tracks.  Would that have meant deviating the Iron Horse/Laurel Trail around the platform and using landscaping measures to ensure that cyclists wouldn't be tempted to bike through the platform? Moving the platform to the west side of the tracks would also have prevented the joint LRT and bus platform. Or, the alternative would have been deviating either Caroline St or the tracks to wrap around the wider platform.

And why couldn't the tracks have moved west?
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RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit - by danbrotherston - 05-02-2021, 04:18 PM
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