Shift: London's Rapid Transit Initiative

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Originally Posted by HillStreetBlues

In the report, it was said that demand in the west was such that LRT there (with its much-higher-capacity vehicles) would likely run only four times hourly for the foreseeable future. That's not good frequency, and it's much more sensible to have buses (in their own lanes with signal priority) running more frequently in terms of ridership building.

I'm surprised to hear the opinion that Wellington couldn't support LRT, though: I would have thought so. But this is great, that hybrid option looks like a great system.

Edit: Maybe someone can explain to me the statement in the article "London is the largest Canadian city without rapid transit." At first, I just thought it was the Free Press saying something that sounded right to them, without checking. How can this statement be correct? Hamilton, for instance, has an express bus (business hours Monday to Friday...). Halifax has MetroLink, but it's essentially a limited-stop route, too. London has limited-stop routes. So how is the Free Press defining "rapid transit"? And how is their statement accurate?

Hamilton also has GO trains and buses (which link to other parts of the Hamilton CMA), and Halifax is smaller than London.