07-13-2023, 03:11 PM
(07-13-2023, 01:33 PM)Bytor Wrote:(07-10-2023, 06:42 AM)nms Wrote: So was part of the LRT sales pitch a bait-and-switch and road construction wasn't going to slow down at all? Or did Waterloo Region's growth accelerate? Or was the staff figure actually "we'll not need 500 km/lanes of traffic [once we build out the next 1000 km/lanes on the books]"?
Where did you think that road construction would slow down because of ION LRT? ION was only said to *mitigate* the growth of congestion, never to halt it
We can have a growing modal share for transit and still have the raw numbers of cars on the road increasing.
I believe I originally introduced the claim, but it was explicitly stated by the Region's staff. Their projections showed us building 500 fewer lane kms over the transportation plans timeframe.
As for what ION does to congestion, that's arguable, but it of course has nothing to do with a transportation planner's transportation projections, which are, as I said earlier...a work of fiction, divination, reading of tea leaves, however you want to put it.