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Originally Posted by scryer
I'm really glad that this is being considered seriously for a city barely under 300k!
I hope to see that most of it will be grade-separated when the designs are proposed. And from the looks of it, it will be. And hopefully the construction of this process will not be a drawn out and done in the most painful way possible, as they did it in Winnipeg.
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I agree that it is great that it is getting the consideration it needs now, better to start a good rapid transit system sooner when it can shape the way the transit system will work in the future, rather than later when it is past being desperately needed and every element is an expensive compromise.
As for grade separation of the transitway, that is a whole other realm of construction. I wouldn't expect much of it to be grade separated at all to begin with (that's kind of the point of using buses to start instead of rails), but would like to see it planned for with reserves set aside for the eventual construction of grade separation (whether it's tunnels or flyovers).