West Gatineau Tramway & Downtown Loop | Proposed

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Originally Posted by PHrenetic

As you can see, I personally am in favour of the STO's Sparks tunnel option, and definitely prefer leaving open, or including, the option of the 'loop' via Alexandra. The last from Penaud-Jobin and STO seems to indicate that they are open to including planning their proposal with the 'loop' in mind, and if NCC/Feds can get it together with the Alexandra replacement planning by PSPC, it could potentially all work together - IF everyone gets along, and expedites cooperation.
And, similarly, you can also rightly assume that I do not really favour the Wellington surface option, for many of the reasons already discussed above, and that I brought up previously. And the Sparks surface option some have brought up (including myself) works only if (IMO) we abandon any 'loop' proposal connecting to STO's proposal. Any connection becomes just so difficult and awkward as to be simply untenable - the 'loop' would have to be a separate system from STO Sparks surface.

EnJoy!

Why do you believe a Sparks surface would not allow for a loop? The old streetcars use to go down Sparks to Rideau and up Sussex to New Edinburgh. We would just need to sever Confederation Square as it was for a few decades in the early and mid-20th Century. I realize that new LRT trains are much longer than the old streetcars, but that's just as much of an issue with surface Wellington.