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Originally Posted by bigguy1231
The last 3 may be a little newer than the first but they are all streetcars anyway you look at it. Stringing a couple of them together isn't going to change that. Light rail is not rapid transit, it is mass transit. We already have that, it's called the HSR.
Spending a billion dollars to run rails down the middle of one of the busiest streets in the city and calling it rapid transit is ridiculous. Taking traffic lanes from that same busy street is also ridiculous especially when no thought has been put into where that traffic will go. It's not going to go away magically just because we have streetcars. It will only force that traffic onto other streets causing the same problems that most of the pro LRT people here are trying to fix on Main and King Sts.
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To be honest I don't know where to start.
1) Transit service is exceeding capacity in this corridor all the time, to the point where not only does it limit number of passengers, but also massively slows down service.
2) Transit gets stuck trying to merge into traffic after stops, and because it does not move with the synchronized lights, often gets caught at lights.
3) LRT solves both these problems and are also far more cost efficient, spurs development, and increases ridership. These are facts only disputed by either (i) those who oppose government entirely (ii) those who make assumptions without examining the experience of other North American cities and (iii) those with ties to the auto/oil/bus industries.
4) Traffic will either (i) suck it up and deal with the slightly slower times because in reality it will still be pretty fast (ii) try alternate routes INCLUDING our fabulous ring road system (iii) switch to transit or (iv) a mixture of the three.
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