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Originally Posted by Mikeed
It will take a billion dollars to bring the trillium line to Confederation standards again- that's the starting point of this process.
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Misunderstood you. Yes. If we're spending on a full upgrade, it's a different ball game.
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Originally Posted by Mikeed
Do we want to bring the Trillium Line up to Confederation spec? If so then we need to have it double tracked for most of the way and I didn't see the value in doing that while maintaining the SE transitway when we can convert half of it to make the Trillium Line better, make a better airport rail link and make a better Crosstown Transitway as already the plans for the Baseline transitway basically shrug when it comes to how to get the 88 onto the SE transitway better. Again most of the inner city bus lines should end at ether Baseline or Hurdman which is better served through the Baseline/Heron/Walkley corridor.
Anyone thinking OCtranspo should keep running rapid buses from Greenboro to Hurdman in the future after spending this much money on the Trillium Line is beyond me. Or else they don't want to see the Trillium line move outta the beta phase it's stuck in.
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It's not about running buses from Greenboro to Hurdman. It's about not forcing an unnecessary transfer in the Southeast. The SE Transitway is great at facilitating a trip to anybody going to the eastern half of downtown (with the Rideau Centre, U of O, Market, etc.) and going East itself (St-Laurent, Orleans, etc.)
If you get on a bus in Alta-Vista, why should you have to get off and transfer to Trillium? Stay on another 10 mins and get to Hurdman. Makes no sense to force riders from Southeast to take a train trip to the west of downtown just to boost Trillium Line ridership. If we were talking about building the BRT, it'd be a different matter. But it exists. Makes no sense to trash it just to bump numbers of the Trillium Line.
I agree that there may be a case to be made for getting rid of the BRT south of Walkley.