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Originally Posted by Nouvellecosse
What should be done regardless is that the middle reversing lane should be transit and HOV exclusive during peak times.
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That sounds great in theory. However, that alone will not fix anything. Unless there are additional transit malls on both sides of the harbour, buses will be stuck in incredibly long lines of traffic getting to their dedicated lane, making the overall commute even slower.
This discussion has me fantasizing about sticking a TBM in the railcut at Coburg and having it tunnel under Spring Garden and Barrington and come out at a redesigned Cogswell neighbourhood. A line would start at Mumford, and travel to stations at Dal, Robie, South Park, Library, Prince/Sackville and Scotia Square with a connection to the ferries. It would be wildly expensive, if not impossible to tunnel through all the rock. But if higher order transit is going to work, the corridor largely served by the #1 is where the most people are travelling, and would stand to have the largest impact on commutes.