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Originally Posted by Aylmer
I am deeply skeptical of routings on Allumettières and Maisonneuve because these are car corridors whose purpose is incompatible with the kind of dense development and slow speeds which transit-oriented development requires. The best you could end up with is a sort of unhappy middle which is too auto-oriented to be pleasant, but too dense to be convenient for cars. Worse still, the competition with the existing nodes would do no favours to them. The result is middling new nodes and degrading old nodes, a shit-to-drive-on Chemin d'Aylmer and a shit-to-drive-on Allumettières, and 'just-okay' transit service down both. Like lukewarm beer or a half-dried grape, sometimes going down the middle makes no one happy. I think it's preferable for us to have excellent transit/ped-oriented corridors building on existing nodes, and to leave Maisonneuve and Allumettières for quick car access.
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I agree with that too, that's why I have not completely made up my mind on the routing yet. Allumettières is basically a highway past the last roundabout, and light-rail running along a highway is not what we want either.
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