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Originally Posted by bradnixon
It is nice to see Carling still planned a tram line., and the vision of the Baseline BRT extending to Heron and Walkley.
A couple questions:
- How useful will that short section of busway be on Carling east of Preston?
- What's going on at St Laurent & Innes? Are they considering a busway on the old rail corridor? Why is it so short?
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I saw someone speculate that it could connect to OC Transpo's Industrial Garage. It could offer more efficient dispatching of vehicles to the east end, especially if the Cumberland transitway is built.
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Originally Posted by J.OT13
Interesting... Why show it on some but not others? Seems to be the only difference.
Unless that Preston-Bronson section is just bus lanes, I don't see Baseline level Transitway would bring much benefit.
A Transitway was once planned for the old rail corridor between Riverside and St-Laurent as part of the Cumberland Transitway (CT) in the 2008 TMP, but that was dropped in favour of a full focus on the suburban part of the CT, because, you know, Ottawa. A lot of that corridor seems to have been lost to Trainyards Big Box Centre.
https://app06.ottawa.ca/calendar/ott...8-ICS-PLA-0227
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As far as I can tell, the Lycée Claudel-Innes transitway wouldn't have used any rail corridors, and would have instead followed the existing hydro corridor.
There's a substation in the way, but otherwise nothing technically would preclude it from ever being built: