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Originally Posted by eternallyme
This also asks the question, will Barrhaven push hard for the LRT as well?
They do have an advantage in its shape, increasing walk-on traffic, but also have an issue near Knoxdale where either expropriation or tunneling will be required.
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True, but Kanata has much greater potential demand. Kanata has a mix of uses, there's employment lands, and there's regional destinations like the Tanger mall and the arena (which will presumably get redeveloped into something else rather big), so a Kanata line, if the bus connections were well designed and frequent, could attract a lot of different types of riders throughout the day.
By contrast, in Barrhaven, it's mostly just houses and local retail (that only attracts shoppers from the local area). There's not much in the way of employment, and the only regional destination is the train station. For this reason a line to Barrhaven would mostly just get peak period commuters.