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View Poll Results: Would you vote for a ETS Rapid Transit masterplan scheme?
Yes, I'd vote for more BRT/LRT 301 82.92%
No, what we have is fine. 34 9.37%
I dunno, maybe, yes, no, whatever. 28 7.71%
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Old Posted Mar 1, 2012, 8:37 PM
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Don't get me wrong though, I'm not the biggest fan of the current low floor alignment, either. While I have no problem with low floor per se (works well in Portland, Salt Lake City, LA, and Manchester) but we've already built a high floor system. We should keep things consistent. It's not like they couldn't do high floor down Stony Plain Road or in Mill Woods or down 102nd Avenue, just make the station design less gargantuan and more pedestrian friendly.
Correction - Manchester is a high-floor system. The trams run on a combination of dedicated right-of-way and mixed-traffic street running. but this supports your arguement that high-floor could run on the street if the stations are carefully designed.
     
     
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