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Originally Posted by Dado
I think you'd be better off pulling it back to St. Laurent Station, which is already a multi-level station with a fairly large local bus level on top and which is accessible from the Transitway to the east.
Cyrville is like Tunney's: it's not a natural major transfer hub once the line is extended beyond it. We would just be building a white elephant for the future.
Another option is to pull it back to Train but with the major transfer hub being at Hurdman (a line of some sort has to be built to Train to access the railyard).
I tend to think that's a better idea anyway. There's enough room at Bayview to design a transfer station that allows for cross-platform transfers in both directions. The only reason Tunney's is being offered up as a terminus is for the benefit of east-end residents working at Tunney's so they don't have to transfer. No such consideration has been given to anyone working in Hull for the last few decades (excepting those who can make sole use of the #8 or #40).
Personally, I'd go with Lincoln Fields to Hurdman/Train since that ensures that LRT covers the busy central portion of the system (there is higher ridership between Lincoln Fields and Tunney's Pasture than there is between Blair and Hurdman) where BRT loses the most money versus LRT up to the points where it forks apart into separate transitways. If that can't be afforded with a tunnel, go on the surface downtown and push the east end out as far as Blair if possible with any leftover funds since the Hurdman-Blair segment is the most intensively used segment after the core LF-Hurdman segment.
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They don't have a way to get to Lincoln fields - at least not yet.
I don't really understand why everyone wants a station in confederation square. There is very little in the way of destinations in confederation square (aside from the NAC) and it is easily in walking distance of Rideau center and the station by World Exchange. Zillions of people walk around that area everyday. It is also along the local bus routes if people really don't want to walk or can't. We don't need another station slowing everything down. We are really stop-happy in this city. This is a rapid transit line, not a local route. All they need to do is nudge the downtown east station a little bit east and everything is fine.
It is the same mistake they made building the Queensway way back when. Every bloodly street doesn't need a ramp.
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