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Originally Posted by lrt's friend
The two transfer scenario that we are creating is going to limit ridership potential. Similarly for the airport. Yes, it may be a 'cheap' option from both the capital and operating cost sides, but in the end there will be lower transit modal share than elsewhere in the city. The experts and our politicians believe that is good enough. Based on the plans I have seen for Bayview and Lebreton, there is no indication that it will be like downtown. It is going to be mainly high rise residential and a sports venue. The main destination for office workers and shoppers will continue to be east of Bronson and really east of Bank.
The limited amount of additional double tracking is not going to make much difference as far as train scheduling is concerned. It just addresses the two car trains and the new stations. To make any significant further difference will require full double tracking. Further fiddling around will just serve to shut down service yet again with little to show for it. The reason being that the biggest gap in the double tracking will be limiter for the whole line. There is really no more low hanging fruit on the Trillium Line (at least that will make a difference) since so many bridges need to be replaced or expanded as well the rock cut and tunnel.
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I guess im one of the few people who will have the number of transfers reduced with stage 1 coming in. Right now it takes me 2 transfers for to get to southern part of Ottawa fast (bus, bus train 30 min or bus to bus in 1hr)
After stage 1 i will only have to take bus then train from downtown gatineau to get where i want in 30 min or less.
I do believe stage 1 will have chaos and it wont get resolved until after stage 2. Im just guessing the money they save off of stage 2 will eventually be used to double track the Trillium line but that will be a long way off since all the money has been spent on the first 2 stages and will be spent on stage 3a Kanata and 3b Gatineau extensions
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