07-11-2024, 01:09 PM
(07-11-2024, 09:07 AM)SF22 Wrote: Related: I would really love to see street/track grade separation done at the Bingeman Centre Dr and Lancaster St crossings (much like what was done at Weber St back in 2014-ish) so that the trains can carry a faster speed into the city and trim a couple extra minutes off the travel time, but also because I think it would allow for GRT to run buses down Lancaster and connect through to Victoria, to improve north-south connectivity. I imagine that they won't do it right now because that crossing closes for extended periods of time when they're moving cars around the rail yard, and the buses would never run at reliable times.
I would rather see the Lancaster St. crossing simply closed to motor vehicles, and the 2 new grade-separated crossings that are supposed to be built as part of the highway project completed. Just we sometimes build bridges in places where nobody crosses, sometimes the right way to deal with congestion in a location is to close that link and route the traffic elsewhere.