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Originally Posted by lrt's friend
It would need to be a subway through Vanier. Elevated rail in dense urban areas is a blight. Where Montreal Road is much wider (east of St. Laurent), it could be elevated. We killed this idea when we decided to eliminate a roughed in connection just east of Rideau station to save money.
I was also thinking of the hospital corridor, which has a long standing transit corridor that connected to the Nicholas Street interchange. A bit of this has now been built into the hospital campus. When Phase 2 was being planned, there was also brief consideration of the Innes Road corridor for the Orleans extension as the main retail and growth area of Orleans.
I find that highway running LRT has less potential. Vancouver's Skytrain does not follow expressways and has been an overwhelming success. REM will follow expressways in many areas. We will see how successful it will be when fully opened.
I would have not built a Queensway based Transitway replacement, as it is just a variation of the existing Transitway with limited new ridership potential. A new route should have created a second rapid transit route to the east, which many on this board have dreamed about.
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I guess you've proved my point and you're LRT's friend. (I know that is a bit dated for you as a proud suburbanite now) It absolutely doesn't need to be a "blight". Modern systems are not the L in Chicago. We can't afford a tunnel so will get nothing. Vanier Parkway could certainly accommodate an elevated train and it would not be as much a blight as the current near highway stroad that is there.
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