Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph

[Bytor]

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.

Putting a future LRT on Ottawa makes more sense than Victoria if the system is being designed for the purposes of moving people (how it should be). If it is being designed as an economic driver to force redevelopment Victoria makes more sense purely due to the amount of land that is available for redevelopment. When one looks at that side of Kitchener Ottawa is really the central spine, Victoria and Fairway are really out on the periphery, the central spine is what makes more sense to have an LRT on since you can feed into the system from both the Victoria side as well as the Fairway side, much like the current system feeds everything towards King.

Before people go saying where they hink a new LRT line should be built, I think they need to have some idea as to what transit ridership is on the relevant bus routes.