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Originally Posted by Djeffery
It's King to the fairgrounds to Dundas to Highbury. I don't think Dundas will have any trouble handling it.
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In terms of usefulness, routing the BRT on Oxford vs King/Dundas is the absolutely best choice. It's more central, one road and the main E/W crosstown route in the city. Every major intersection on Oxford has connections to other bus routes.
I believe King/Dundas was chosen over Oxford for several reasons:
1- Widening Oxford requires a ton of expropriation in some areas
2- King and Dundas were both due for sewer/other infrastructure expansion and replacement work to support denser development
3- Old East Village Business Improvement area lobbied the city to build it here to try and improve the local economy.
4- Politically challenging routing on Oxford as it's the main route through town for cars/trucks. The construction time, along with possible car capacity reductions, wouldn't fly. You'd need 2 lanes each way for cars for sure, and proper turn lanes.
The routing for Oxford died when the North leg / CP rail underpass/tunnel and underground Oxford station were all cancelled. This was going to be the crown jewel of the system, and now there won't be anything built here at all.
I drove by King yesterday and it looks so weird to see it two way for buses... I imagine a lot of confused drivers on this stretch, potentially some wrong way drivers or parkers in the bus lanes. I guess we'll see how incompetent London drivers are lol.
I've always envisioned a busway built along the river, but since its in a floodplain it wouldn't be usable when the Thames floods its banks.
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