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Originally Posted by Mikeed
We have to consider that a bank street subway goes through the glebe, which offers not a whole lot of potential in redevelopment and would be resistive to this project. A bank street subway would require nearly a 4.5km long tunnel before reaching the South East Transitway at a cost- assuming 250 million dollars per km of underground subway which is a fair estimate based on research- 1.125 billion dollars.
The same distance from Rideau down Montreal Road would get us to Montfort Hospital and offer much better transformational opportunity for the area.
Not only that but using the south east transitway would guarantee the Trillium Line never moves past the pilot project legacy to Confederation Line specs, would largly duplicate along the Trillium Line and would leave the section of the South East Transitway from Billings Bridge to Hurdman essentially useless. And disrupt the ability for the Crosstown Transitway to reach meaningful nodes like Hurdman.
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Even if it cost $2B to build from Billings to Queen Street, just consider that a $1B Trillium Line upgrade could be avoided.
The end result is that we could eliminate a lot of transfers for those living in the south end including airport passengers. We deliver both more frequent, and more direct service.
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