Quote:
Originally Posted by Kitchissippi
... Extending the Trillium line would just screw up its schedule, ...
|
But seriously, I agree that the best option would be to bring the STO across the PoW Bridge and dump the passengers onto the Confederation Line. If the Trillium line went across the bridge to a Rapibus terminal, it would force everyone to transfer from Rapibus to the Trillium Line, then go one stop across the river and transfer again to the Confederation Line. One extra transfer is maybe already asking too much, but asking them to transfer twice in rapid succession is a bit absurd.
Unless the Trillium Line (which would likely need to be renamed) was extended all the way up along the Rapibus line, it would not be an improvement in service for people crossing the river. Nor would it improve the Trillium Line, since, as Kitchissippi points out, any semblance of a schedule would disappear. In order to make the 1.8 km journey to Alexandre-Tache from Bayview, the LRT would take about three minutes, then there would be a three minute turn-around and another three minutes to get back to Bayview. Since there isn’t an extra nine minutes in the Trillium Line’s schedule, there would likely need to be a new passing track added (and likely another train or two). This could make it a twelve minute extension with the capital cost of the added passing siding. (It might be possible to extend the existing north siding up to the PoW bridge and have trains pass at the Bayview Station – similar to Carleton Station – but the current design of the new Bayview Station does not appear to include capacity to twin-track the Trillium Line through the station.)
If buses were used across the single-lane PoW Bridge segments, they could more easily pass on Lemieux Island or off each end of the bridges. Passing for buses is done under local control (visually, by the bus operators) so it is very fast. Also, with busways, it seems to be OK to have pedestrian crossings, which would not be permitted for a rail line.
Threaded Mode