02-16-2022, 10:44 PM
(02-16-2022, 09:53 PM)plam Wrote: Sharing with buses isn't great but I'd be much more concerned about the cars, even if they can't go straight through. But sharrows are generally suboptimal.
Actually, how would sharing LRT and bus lanes even work? That only helps for one way traffic. There's still southbound traffic that would need to be on the road.
I wouldn't be so sad if they closed it to cars completely, but that somehow doesn't seem to be on the feasibility radar.
Bus traffic is due to go to 20 buses per hour, so one per 3 minutes. You'd have a good chance of not being behind a bus, but you'd also have a good chance of being near a bus.
Dan's idea would be one-way car, two-ways bus using the ION lane.
The issue for that section is the Region doesn't have enough ROW to do two lanes, ION, and bike but has two ways of bus routing to fit. For all the distance it is on that block between them, it does seem like routing the one way of bus traffic wouldn't be so hard to move over to Weber, especially if the ION was running the counter-flow direction.