ION Phase 2 - Cambridge's Light Rail Transit

[Bytor]

King St in Preston is not suits for centre running, two track LRT and a vehicle lane on either side like Charles St. in Kitchener was turned into, it's just too narrow.

And Queenston Rd. as you chose for the first bit would require significant expropriations to run two track LRT plus even just a single vehicle lane.

I'm not sure why you say it's too narrow...it's four lanes the whole way.

And yes, I know Cambridge....-ites....-ers...*googles*...Cantabrigians?! really?!  Okay then. Cantabridgians believe the world will literally end if that road has less than four lanes...but...I mean...they're tiresome...hardly a real objection...this is a fantasy map anyway.

I say it because it is true.

First off, King St. in Preston is not 4 lanes wilde. https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.3931728,-...384!8i8192

https://i.ibb.co/VHkKM6p/Hypothetical-LR...reston.png

That's the width of Charles street post LRT construction overlain onto Preston's King St with building outlines. The red ones are the ones that would need to be torn down.

Here's the same map but without the satellite imagery. Light blue is asphalt outer width, salmon are the sidewalks. not all the building outlines that overlap.

https://i.ibb.co/MfSKfrL/lrt-preston-king-1-300dpi.png

You cannot fit two tracks plus two lanes down it.