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Originally Posted by Richard Eade
I do find it a little disconcerting that people who have put forth the view that Bus-ways should not be built only to be converted to rail later, should be advocating that surface rail should be built now and the trains moved down into a tunnel in 20 years. I understand that some are suggesting that there should always be surface trains, and that the tunnel would augment that service, but is running a parallel rail system really the most efficient idea?
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That was the recommendation of the Peer Review Panel - they suggested adding in the Carling LRT line and running it through downtown on the surface. One of them even suggested building surface downtown first. The reason they wanted LRT on the surface is for the same reason I have stated in the other thread - to improve the downtown environment and act as part of the local surface transport network in a way that a tunnel simply cannot.
I do find one thing curious in all this... weren't most of you in
favour of the N-S LRT that would have put light rail on the surface downtown in and amongst the buses?