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Originally Posted by drew
Are the buses getting re-routed to the Portage Avenue parking lot? If so, that's kind of a lose lose scenario IMO.
Get the damn buses out of downtown completely. This City really needs some at grade streetcars or similar servicing downtown.
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Yes, the plan, effective July 1 next year, is that busses will be on Portage Avenue. However, because there is a lot of consolidation of routes (at higher frequency), the number of distinct routes on Portage Avenue will actually go down, even if the number of actual busses will probably go up.
I think this would be fine if they have real dedicated bus lanes, and the renders in the original Master Plan show busses going down the middle lanes (where the streetcars used to be), but sadly I think in the short term it's just going to be diamond lanes... Anyways, this probably belongs in a different thread.