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Originally Posted by Dupcheck
At the end they will just paint some fresh white lines on the streets and intersections and call that the BRT. Hahahaha, that is what they do for most of the bike lanes. They just paint a sliver of the car lane so the bikes can use it. Ridiculous. The Trains are the problem get to the root of it, don't just patch up solutions.
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Agreed, the trains have to go. I saw something earlier today that seems to suggest the city is going to approach CN & CP in order to work on fixing this. The other thing I saw was that studies have shown that only one in five BRT busses will be delayed by trains and that the delay will be fairly minimal - about five minutes at best, and 10 at worst, notwithstanding the occasional extreme delay.
I'm not happy that the city ditched the tunnel. But given the circumstances, I am glad that the city is actually committing to BRT and is taking concrete steps to end London's status as a do-nothing, go-nowhere, avoid-progress-at-all-costs city.
I'm also glad that the small axe-grinding, nay-saying, anti-BRT crowd didn't get to dictate to the majority like they have in the past with other city initiatives. Some of the people in Old North must be fuming right about now!
People have the mistaken impression that the BRT system as currently laid out is the be-all and end-all, and that once it is fully built, nothing more in terms of rapid transit will be built. Au contraire, my friends! What we are seeing is actually only the beginning phase of the vision the city has mapped out in its transportation plan.
There also seems to be a good chance the city will eventually revisit the idea of constructing the Richmond tunnel, if they cannot find a way to get CN & CP to move their tracks out of the city.