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Originally Posted by lrt's friend
I have said this before, that a station at the Shenkman Arts Centre is critical if we want to urbanize Orleans at all. This is where there has been an ongoing attempt to build a more traditional urban commercial area. It is also the location of public facilities including the afforementioned arts centre but also the municipal service centre for the east end of the city. That was the former Cumberland municipal hall. It is also the location of a multi-plex cinema. To me this is a no brainer. Without a station at this location, we can kiss goodbye further efforts to urbanize this location. We are also making easy access to the mentioned public facilities only available by automobile.
The station at Place d'Orleans many not be a long distance away but the entire distance is pedestrian hostile.
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I see what you were saying about the inner greenbelt (Trillium Line thread) and NIMBYs, but more could be done regardless to better serve the central area such as building Bayview to eventually connect N/S with the downtown subway, re-align and add stations between Dominion and Lincoln Fields (should have at least 3, not just two).
As for the suburbs, again I understand wanting to better intergrate future development around stations, but a few are questionable. Orleans Boulevard has 0 TOD potential. Just a bunch of suburban winding roads on each side of the highway. It will likely have the lowest ridership anywhere in Ottawa.
Station at Place d'Orleans and at Shenkman is way overkill. Just build one station in between. I mean Christ, the two buildings are literally a stones throw away from one another.
And two stations between Shenkman and Trim, why?
If we have 500 meters between stations downtown where 100,000 people live and/or work and thousands more go for shopping and entertainment, a place where stations will have tens of thousands of people going through all day, everyday, we sure as hell should not require stations every 250-500 meters in the burbs.