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Originally Posted by J.OT13
Agreed on all counts. That's another place they could have re-allocated funds; remove some of the double tracking in the south in favour of Walkley.
Dow's Lake is also grossly underbuilt. We knew about the TOD, existing and proposed, in the immediate area. We knew the new Civic Hospital would be built across the street. We'll either maintain this dangerously small station when the Civic opens or have to spend exponentially more money and cause further disruption (another multi year shut down?), to upgrade it.
The entire Stage 2 South was poorly planned. Priorities were not well established. We’ll pay for this over the next 30 years.
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I will also insist, if we do have to do another shutdown to do something like expand Civic/Carling, double-track, electrify, extend to Hull, that adding an infill station at Somerset should be part of the package.
Yes, it's close to Bayview and Corso di Gladstone. Big deal. There are full-— metros in this world that have stations that close, we can do the same for a very light metro and add better connectivity to a major urban bus axis and the surrounding neighbourhood.
And it doesn't have to be fancy and big.
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