O-Train Line 2/4 [Stage 2 | Greenboro to Limebank/Airport] | In Service

[lrt's friend]

Once Riverside South town centre is built, are there going to be opportunities to grade separate road crossing to the west of Limebank Station to accommodate a Trillium Line extension? We are already starting to build around the transit right of way. Will we allow space for a Spratt Road grade separation to allow the Trillium Line to extend to the Vimy Bridge? Or are we going to make things so difficult that the only choice is to make this a linear park?

It seems to me that if we are expecting 100% exclusive right of way, the Trillium Line should be elevated through the central parts of Riverside South. That way, road crossings and pedestrian accesses are a lot easier. Consider that most of the Riverside South population is going to be north of the Trillium Line but a good portion of the town centre is going to be south of it. We are designing for the cheapest short-term solution without considering the long-term.

The end result will mean that the Trillium Line could make Riverside South Town Centre more auto-dependent than it should be. We will just build the same old big box development scattered amongst thousands of parking spaces where we have to drive between stores. Have we learned nothing? Rapid transit will simply be an ornament.

The other question, will there be a Park n Ride at Limebank Station?. If there is, we have just built the worst suburban garbage possible. Stores surrounded by acres of private parking surrounded by acres of public parking. That is no way to design a town centre.