10-18-2021, 05:44 AM
(10-17-2021, 11:54 PM)ac3r Wrote: Yeah, maybe it was too early for us to develop a subway system here (it was considered, researched and rejected), but maybe we should have saved our money in the meantime. Ottawa - who are a lot larger than us - started off with the Transitway, a BRT. They then progressed to a small LRT system about 15 years later. Roughly 15 years later after that, they opened up a proper "light metro" (yes the technology is "light rail" but the infrastructure is not) - that is, a rapid transit system that doesn't stop at fucking stoplights 3 seconds after departing Queen Station like ours does...lol...and it runs underground in the downtown core. It is what it is: rapid transit. That sort of long term strategizing is what you need when you're dealing with a city/region that is projected - not only mathematically/socially projected to grow by tens of thousands a year - to keep and keep growing. If you want to get cars off the road now - and in 25 years - you need to plan for it.
1) As Acitta says, I don't think we would have gotten anything bigger through. It was already a close thing.
2) The point is a bit incoherent here. Is it "go big or go home?" That's not quite right either. What, start with a BRT? I think that would have been even more terrible.
3) I also think that raw speed isn't as important as other considerations. If there are more things closer by, then one doesn't need to make as long a trip.