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Originally Posted by Kinguni
Not faster due to lower speeds and added road crossings. Added benefit of 2 large park and rides. Go for a ride and see how it is. What's missing is the Parker Lands residential development.
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That's not true. Civil planners concluded that the dog leg would take the same time, or possibly add time to the route, unlike building it all on the rail ROW.
The way it deviates from point A to point B, probably increases the ride time as much, or more than just running an express bus down Pembina Hwy. Not to mention that the density of the Pembina Highway strip, and the fact that many people are apartment dwellers, and residents who are either shopping along Pembina, or even from schools like Vincent Massey, would have made it a better option.
All one has to do, is to look at the LRT in Calgary that runs parallel to Macleod Trail to see a properly built route. Additionally, the city could have made the lot at 1111-1117 Chevrier ( the St Mark Coptic Church site) a park and ride, as well as 1/2 the parking lot south of McGillivary and Pembina (the old Safeway lot).