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Originally Posted by coalminecanary

Transit is a huge issue in getting students downtown- I can tell you from first hand experience that many students, even in upper years, are reluctant to live downtown because they worry that the transportation barrier when coupled with occasional laziness would cause too many missed classes. We can say "grow up and set an alarm clock" all we want, but many students don't want to put the onus on themselves. If there was a 5 minute LRT ride to campus, with max 5 minute wait -all day- the barrier would be removed. In fact, with LRT I could see that if you have class in one of the buildins near main (presumably where lrt would stop), it cwoudl be faster to ride the train fron downtown than to walk from brandon hall!

HSR does a pretty good job with the B line, but most students' first hand experience is "full buses blowing past without stopping". Even if that's not the case for the downtown stops, the perception of transit issues is a big one...

So true.

LRT would remove so many barriers.