Hospitals in KW

[tomh009]

It is not a bold prediction to think it will be badly designed for transit when built, that's based on solid track record. We can hope that it might be better, but that's not going to happen on it's own, it's going to take years of dedicated effort, and frankly...I don't see a lot of activism happening here so far.

What the plans look like is that it is not close to the LRT station. LRT is not our only transit (nor do most GRT pax use the LRT daily), though, and I fully expect that there will be frequent bus service available. Saying that it's only every 30 minutes now (as another poster said) doesn't really mean anything as bus frequencies are easily adjusted based on ridership. The shuttle service would hopefully be synchronized with the LRT schedule to maximize convenience (or minimize inconvenience).

The hospital location ... yes, I fully agree that it would be better if it were next to (or even closer to) the LRT station, but if the land owner doesn't want to sell, and the parking lots are in the hydro right of way, then those options are problematic. Could they be overcome? Yes, with sufficient effort and money (and time), but I don't think the planners chose a location further away from the station just to make it less convenient, I expect they saw those hurdles as high enough that it made sense to avoid them. Their priorities are probably not the same as ours, but the reality is that building on either of those other two properties would not be as simple.