City Centre/Young Condominiums | 17, 25 & 6 fl | U/C

[tomh009]

And yet ... the current LRT routing will further encourage intensification away from King St, keeping us from being a single-street downtown. 

I think LRT on Duke and Charles St, with a pedestrian King St in the middle, would be a fabulous solution. Maybe from Water to Queen?

It's not all one-sided, so yes, there are some advantages to splitting between streets, but for transit purposes, having stations that go both ways is probably easier to navigate.

I was talking to the Regional staff about station design last year and they had said that they would have preferred running on King both ways, but they didn't think there was political buy-in at that stage. But for Cambridge it would be easier after people had seen that LRT can work.

From a transportation point of view, I agree, King St would have been ideal. But the big goal for the LRT was to encourage intensification, and, for that, the split may actually be beneficial.

And, in any case, the single most important goal was to actually get the LRT approved!