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Originally Posted by agl
Not to throw cold water on the suggested route, but all of northern Aylmer and Le Plateau are low density, whereas the greatest potential for high density is along the rue Principale/Aylmer road/ Taché corridor, including the multi-tower plan by Brigil (if it comes to fruition as planned). I would think at some point down the road we will also lose one of the golf courses to development.
The Aylmer road corridor is also the most direct route downtown, whereas forcing western Aylmer transit users along a meandering route through the Plateau and Hull before turning south will add considerable time to their commute.
Ideally we have two routes, one along Aylmer Road and one into Le Plateau that either heads south on St Raymond or east through Hull as you suggest, though I suspect there will not be the budget, nor population size to justify, any tunnelling or other grade separation unless it’s cheap to implement (ie. running south of UQO or beside highway 5, where possible).
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Potential and existing density are entirely different. His proposed route that you are throwing cold water on is actually better since it will be near higher density areas. Putting LRT on tache is going to create a traffic nightmare unless the widen tache by a lot.
I hope someone in Gatineau city council see his idea since it is similar to one of their proposed routes and this will serve more people.
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