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Originally Posted by Dado
If I had it my way, I'd split the western lines not at Lincoln Fields but at Bayview itself: use the Trillium line to Confederation Heights and then on along the VIA corridor clear to Barrhaven. The western line through Westboro would continue on westwards to Bayshore and eventually Kanata. Lincoln Fields to Baseline and indeed Barrhaven could be left as a busway given that it would now be serving mainly "orbital" rather than "radial" traffic. It's a tad absurd for those from Barrhaven to be travelling along two sides of a triangle when the option of travelling along the hypotenuse exists.
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You mean hooking up the Barrhaven<->Baseline transitway corridor to the Baseline-Heron BRT, creating a through route from Barrhaven Centre to Confederation Heights?
I'm not a huge fan of using the VIA corridor for high level metro-like transit... there's not enough on it really, it doesn't serve anything meaningful pretty much the whole way from Confederation Heights down to Barrhaven... if it was to be used for local transit at all I'd prefer it to more of a commuter train line or something instead.
There's also the fact that the city would need to build its own set of tracks; VIA uses the track that's there so heavily that only a handful of trains could share its tracks even without the technology-mixing restrictions in place. Heck, VIA's now basically forced to add a second track just for its own trains; it's pursuing a rather bizarre investor deal to get it done in the absence of federal money.
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