05-26-2018, 08:21 PM
(05-26-2018, 05:52 PM)jamincan Wrote: Honest question, what benefit would an LRT line along Victoria have? With ION coming online, I think I would rather see investment move toward improving bus service. It's a lot less glamorous, but any E-W route would have a minimal time saving for a lot of cost and I fear would result in reduced frequencies and service hours.
It depends on what transit mode share you are assuming. With a high enough mode share, any road that today has enough traffic to be worth widening to 4 lanes would probably merit an LRT. And — Catch-22! — an LRT system with 5-minute service along every current 4-lane road would probably attract an enormously higher mode share than our current transit system. Where this will end up I have no idea.