ION Phase 2 - Cambridge's Light Rail Transit

[KevinT]

First is the some ridership metrics. More riders go through the Sportsworld corridor to Cambridge than through the Homer Watson corridor to Conestoga College.

That's a bad faith argument. People travelling between Cambridge and Kitchener by transit have never had any choice but to go through Sportsworld (unless prepared to stop and transfer at Conestoga, and nobody likes a transfer), so of course that's where the ridership numbers will put them.

I'm all for ION and think it was a huge opportunity lost by taking highway 8 through the Sportsworld desert rather than down Homer Watson where people actually live, work, and go to school.