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Options are good things to have. Bring on the options.
It's long past time for another O-Train style pilot on existing tracks. People say it won't work, that no one wants to get on a train from nowhere to nowhere (the VIA terminal.)
Let's test that hypothesis in the real world.
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I am all for this but this option was blown away with the 2008 TMP. All we are interested in now is rebuilding existing rapid transit, which is really blowing the bank anyways. There is no money left to experiment like we did with the first O-Train. This idea went out when we kicked Chiarelli out of office.
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Why, if a commuter rail line were only cannibalizing ("competing") with BRT/LRT ridership, would we have to build extra capacity on the LRT?
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Because commuter rail cannot go downtown. Therefore, most passengers using commuter rail will still have to transfer to LRT to get to their destination. We have to build LRT to handle the greatest demand on the line. Therefore, whether the passengers get on at the Via Station or Baseline Station, we still have to make space for them. The only difference is that with commuter rail, you have to buy extra trains to bring the passengers across the city while the LRT system will be half empty except for that section between the Via Rail station and downtown. That assumes that people will actually be willing to do this, to cross the city from Kanata and go considerably east of downtown before backtracking.
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