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I don't expect no delays during a conversion but some effort must be made to allow for transit to keep moving. There is no reason why we needed to actually block the Transitway during conversion. We have consciously designed the tunnel to block the surface route. If we were to keep a surface route open, at least it is better than what we are proposing to do. The Seattle tunnel is a different situation entirely. First of all, this was a tunnel conversion, not the building of a new tunnel. Second, Seattle fouled things up when they first designed the tunnel and a lot of work had to be redone to allow trains to run through it. Third, I am sure you will find that the Seattle tunnel does not impact the overall transit network to the same degree as our tunnel plan. The same can be said about the Canada Line. The other skytrains were still operational.
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I think the discussion was regarding the hypothetical conversion of a bus tunnel to LRT. Difficulty in converting it to LRT in the future was given as a reason not to build a bus tunnel today. It is far easier to build an LRT tunnel now and convert the surface transitway then it will be to convert a future bus tunnel to LRT when surface transit routes through the downtown are no longer available.
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