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Originally Posted by AndyMEng
I don't follow. How could they locate the station better? So that it's connected physically with no stairs to the Walkley transitway station?
I lived at Walkley and Bank for years, and used to head south on the transitway to Greenboro to catch the train to head north. Now if you're heading north, you can just head down to the platform. (For YEARS I would watch my train pass by Walkley while I was waiting for a 97 for 1/2 hour at 8:00am when they should be going by every 3-5 minutes. Cursing the city for not having a platform at Walkley, and yet Confederation had a station to serve absolutely nobody.)
And if you're gonna say transfers from buses to rail, Walkley isn't the station for that. And if you're gonna say the station should be on the north side, I say whats the difference (Other than the crosswalk on the south side, which may require people waiting for a light)? Good on them for allowing densification in the Southern empty lands where homeless people and/or gypsies loved camping in the summer. They should do the same on the west side: squish the airport parkway on-ramp tight to the parkway and open up that entire wasted space for densification. The NIMBY's would hate it (*gets out popcorn*)
I for one appreciate that the City isn't going to spend another $50 or 100 or 150 million building a secondary bridge under Walkley, AND a secondary bridge under the parkway off-ramp AND a secondary bridge under the transitway off-ramp, only to scoot the train line 50 feet to the west so that the transitway and train lines are side-by-side. And what then? What if I wanted to keep heading North on a bus? I'd STILL have to go up the stairs and down the stairs...like an animal.
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Stations should be close to the street that they serve not a football field length or longer away. Just remember there are buses running east and west from Walkley Station. You might want to transfer off those buses, as I would have liked to have in the past. Instead, I had to drive to Greenboro Station and hope I found a parking spot.