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Originally Posted by Novacek
What transfer point?
It's a spur, not a separate line. You don't have riders board at Payton Gin, ride for a stop, and then transfer to another train at the NLTC. You have riders board at PG (or the Domain) and have a one seat ride all the way to downtown.
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To add more details to my reply, since I'm now back in town.
They have stated that the full operational characteristics of the proposal wouldn't be determined until phase 3, so frequency and allocation between forks, etc.
There's certainly nothing that precludes them from running a Domain-originating train to short of downtown. But even if they try to cost-optimize runs, I'm going to affirmatively state that at _minimum_ a train from the domain will run at least to Crestview. Because that's where all the buses to transfer to actually are.
Under connections 2025 (and even before) they've continually been de-emphasising NLTC in favor of crestview. Cx2025 had a single non-Lamar route (323) stop there. They slid back slightly for June 2018 (now there's still the 383 as well). But that one almost certainly wouldn't exist anymore with light rail.
The NLTC is kind of in an awkward spot. It's too far into the city, and too far away from the major N/S highways. Yet it's so far out that once parking there you still have a long transit ride in. It's almost too close to 183 (either driving in or driving out is probably going to be an awkward U turn). The highway and depressed Lamar (which is highway-like in that section) cuts off good pedestrian access from almost 270 degrees. Any central-core buses need to cross over 183 (twice) to connect there. Etc.
It probably was a good location years ago, when that was out in the boonies. But nowadays I'd be surprised if a new P+R was proposed there, if CM didn't already have the land.