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Originally Posted by kmcamp
That's not quite the point that I was trying to make. The fact that there's already a station within a 30 minute walk means that it's awfully close for a second parallel rapid transit service. You can do buses or even streetcars to provide transit on Bank and link it to rapid transit effectively. Those links already exist.
The only reason transit is slow and off schedule on Bank is traffic. If we got rid of the sacred on street parking you could provide efficient transit there by doing transit priority for far less than building a subway 2km from an existing rail line.
If Line 2 didn't exist my answer would be different, but since it does, a Bank St Subway is an expensive vanity project
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The principal advocate for the Bank St. subway on here is also a large advocate for protecting street parking on Bank. Toronto is not Ottawa. The feds and Queen's Park will never sign up to spend billions on a Bank St subway, just because some Ottawa residents want to protect street parking in a rich area. The "War on the Car" nonsense works in Toronto. Ottawa doesn't have swing ridings for anybody to care about this.
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