Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph

[SF22]

I'm fine with Victoria Street being as many lanes as it is...I think the extremist anti-car people tend to forget we still do actually need roads for things. Sometimes they'll need a lot of lanes. It's an incredibly important road leading to the core of our region.

But...at the very least they could beautify it and improve the safety. It's soooo ugly.

Also I think any east-west LRT would likely run along Ottawa. Victoria would be an easy path to route a train on but from a TOD planning perspective it isn't as ideal as Ottawa would be.

I think Victoria St is a better fit for a new LRT line on the north side of King, and Ottawa is a better fit on the south side of King. We could redevelop so much of Victoria between the highway and Breslau that is currently low-rise commercial, just massively reimagine at least 4km between Margaret Ave and Lackner, whereas Ottawa one that side has a lot more single family homes and people who are more likely to not want the LRT disruption, as they know it brings a lot of development that might directly impact their properties.

Whereas south of King, Ottawa hits two big shopping centres (Laurentian and Sunrise), and the smaller Westmount/Ottawa plazas. There are also high-rise buildings already going in along Ottawa across from McLennan Park, plus the big development beside Mill Station, and the thousands of units proposed for the Schneider property. 

Not sure how to square that circle, but it's no wonder that planning a permanent transit route like the LRT is a total nightmare.