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Originally Posted by J.OT13
When the Confederation Line reaches capacity, and it will happen within 30 years or so with the TOD planned around the stations, the City will have no choice but to look into building a second rapid transit line, and Montreal Road in the east is the only option. Bonus is that it can be extended as the Cumberland Transitway, serving the precious suburbs.
In the west, Carling would be the only logical route, but linking it to the Montreal Road subway would be tough.
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This more like Stage 4+ but if I were to think of a Line 3 it would be something like this which I humorously call the Hospital Line:
It could initially travel from Algonquin, along Baseline to the Clyde-Merivale area (which has lots of TOD potential); then diagonally up Merivale to Carling (the western frontage of the Experimental Farm could be rezoned for massive TOD); past the Mental Health Centre to the New Civic Hospital; tunnel under the Glebe and Ottawa East (Fifth Ave/Clegg axis) with stations to serve Bank and Lansdowne; hook up with the C-line and T-way at Hurdman; then continue down Station Blvd to the General Hospital.
Western extension would take it out to the Queensway Carleton Hospital then to more TOD potential at Bellwoods and up towards the DND campus.
Eastern extension would go mostly elevated beside Browning to the Science and Tech Museum; dip under the 417 where the railway is; turn up the hydro corridor through Pineview to Blair; jog up beside Bathgate past CSEC and CSIS; go through La Cité campus to Den Haag; up to Montfort Hospital and into the Rockcliffe Base development; then to the Aviation Museum. If the Kettle island bridge is built, it could have a transit component to bring the line to meet up with the Rapibus corridor.
This would connect all the hospitals in the city except Riverside (which is linked via the T-way), two colleges, Lansdowne, two related museums, three federal employment nodes, and tons of TOD.