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Originally Posted by J.OT13
Thanks for posting!
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Disappointed they plan on maintaining the Tunney's bus loop post-Stage 2. I assume they wan to continue forcing transfers to all urban west end residents. An urban station such as this should not continue to play host to a suburban bus depot. And even while preserving the bus loop, they still plan on making the walk as far as possible for riders.
With the new Goldenrod Bridge, I hope they demolish the bridge just to the east of it.
Same with Westboro, why so much bus infrastructure for an urban station?
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I'm disappointed Cleary and New Orchard will not be underground. I hope the open trench only takes up the space for the station, and not more as GeoOttawa seems to suggest. Glad they are removing a few streets crossing the linear park. Good to see more pedestrian crossovers down Richmond, increasing accessibility to the Tramway park and the stations. Happy to see an additional pedestrian/cycling underpass connecting the Parkway and the station.
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Baseline, washrooms and retail. Location of the pedestrian bridge between the ACCE building and the station is ridiculous. Why not have a much shorter, straight bridge at the "B" entrance?
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Good Day.
Yep - Sue beat me to posting - good work.
Tunney's : As always, promises broken.
Tunney's was indeed promised to be returned to the small loop it was in the T-Way era. If this mapping is correct (and it ain't necessarily so yet), poof ! What else is new !
The Goldenrod bridge : if you mean the at-an-angle-to-Scott foam-core embankment berm 'bridge', it goes, fast,
replaced by a perpendicular actual bridge in a straight line from Goldenrod to Smirle, with a full signalized intersection at Scott, per agreement with PWGSC as well as NCC.
(which they should have built in the first place.)
Westboro is indeed smaller than you seem to suggest, to my eye - I think you are overestimating the footprint, but as always, we have to wait and see.
The Richmond/Byron stations : to fully bury them would increase costs overall to a very large amount, having to provide emergency exits per tunnel standards, ventilation, fireproofing, etc. Big additional costs.
(this is why the earlier plan for the SJAM stretch was windowed berm rather than full tunnel, but NIMBYs and NCC shot us down and increased costs here big.)
Baseline : a continuing FUBAR, getting worse all the time.