09-28-2023, 04:05 PM
(09-28-2023, 01:58 PM)panamaniac Wrote:(09-28-2023, 12:46 PM)SF22 Wrote: I honestly believe that we will never see Victoria shrunk from 4/5 to 2 lanes without an alternative route to get towards Guelph. I'd love to see a third LRT line go east-west along Victoria from the proposed Breslau GO station all the way out to the Boardwalk, but you know people will kick their feet and yell about it taking lanes away from cars if there's not another option. I don't love the idea that we'll be cutting through the greenspace near Bingemans, but I don't think we'll be able to get approval for a truly innovative transit change on this stretch without it.
Has it ever been proposed? I find it hard to imagine. It's not that many years ago that the fight on Victoria S. was widening to 4 lanes vs 3 lanes.
I read it somewhere, months ago, on an official document. But it was something I stumbled across on a tangential project, so the likelihood of me finding it again anytime soon is pretty low. I'm not sure if they want to shrink Victoria past Edna (although there are the rumours that they want to put another LRT line down Victoria), but there's definitely talk about having it be 2 lanes from about Strange/West (where it already is 2 lanes) all the way through to the highway.