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Originally Posted by Djeffery
Isn't the L the one that will be going from Masonville, to downtown and out to Fanshawe? Going to pretty hard to run 5 minute service if the university is limiting you to 7 1/2 minutes (8 an hour). I was pretty sure I heard that a new bridge was in the plans, but those might have been older plans as well. That bridge is very old and doesn't allow 2 way traffic when one is a larger vehicle anymore either.
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That's a good question about the "every 5 minutes" thing.. I have no idea, but the BRT plans to this day state that the route running from masonville to fanshawe college is going to have buses running every 5 minutes. As for the bridge, in one set of plans they did point out that they might or might not have to work on the existing bridge and upgrade it. There are also plans by the university to build a pedestrian bridge a bit south of there. So maybe one of these plans is what you're thinking of.
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Originally Posted by Djeffery
Also, I'm not sure about any flood plain or anything limiting "densification" on Western/Wharncliffe between Alumni Circle and Riverside (meaning, I don't know, not that I'm disagreeing with you).
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That was one of the "cons" of that route back when the city was still determining which routes to use for RT. Maybe it wasn't a "flood plain", but I remember reading something like that. Either way there's some sort of a protected area there that would prevent a RT corridor from attracting new developments.
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Originally Posted by Djeffery
I'm also curious what they plan to do about parking at the north and south ends. They keep saying that they are going to use Masonville and White Oaks
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There is going to be some parking spots lost at masonville, since they're gong to have to upgrade the existing bus terminal (or whatever you want to call it). I don't think they've yet figured out how they're going to replace those parking spots. There aren't really that many though, just looking at the blueprints
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