ION Phase 2 - Cambridge's Light Rail Transit

[GtwoK]

Here. Why can't we do this in Preston? This seems like the extremely obvious choice. Not only does this align better with, well, EVERYTHING, but it also prevents the total expropriation of 6 properties, and the partial expropriation of 8 (although, it would totally expropriate the beer store in addition, since it would not be accessible by vehicles any longer). It'd ALSO leave the cambridge surplus property stll street facing, for potential redevelopment

Short answer here is because CP owns the track and this alignment would impact their right of way. Concerning the Hidden Valley situation, it's because MTO owns the right of way and is not on side with working with local transit agencies.

But in both of those cases, the LRT does not interact with the right of way at all, which is what I mean — With regards to the hidden valley mansions, you could fit 3 more double-track widths in between where they've placed them and the MTO right of way.

And with my mock diagram, you can see the pink line representing property the CN boundaries, and my solution is outside of them. It doesn't interact with CN anymore than the proposed solution does. Unless the CN ROW extends beyond their property bounds, for some weird legal reason?