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Originally Posted by gjhall
Yes, no question, but it also serves as the main N-S busway for Riverside South, Hunt Club, etc, all of which will likely end with the O-Train upgraded. Will they run a 97 in this limited area? Will it be useful as part of a larger network in Stage 3? Right now it's looking like a bit of a leftover scrap ... I used to use this every day when I was a south end commuter.
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They've also still got themselves a downtown capacity imbalance issue that has [apparently] yet to be sorted out: if most south end transit traffic (less that from Alta Vista) is funnelled into the west portal of the downtown tunnel via the O-Train line, then there will be far more morning eastbound trains through the tunnel required than westbound trains, whereas if south end transit riders are brought to the east portal via the SE Twy and Hurdman, that imbalance largely, though not completely, cancels out.
It may be that they are deciding to hold off on O-Train conversion precisely because they haven't yet figured out what to do about this problem, a problem they've made worse by designing-out a light rail connection option along the SE Twy at Hurdman. So long as O-Train usage is limited to those from Riverside South and the Greenboro/South Keys area, this imbalance problem can be kicked down the road for awhile until population growth in Riverside South forces the issue.
And note that this imbalance exists before we even begin discussing dealing with transit riders from Gatineau.