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Originally Posted by lrt's friend
Regarding BRT on Heron and Walkley, as being more important than on Bank Street, knowing the area very well, I cannot fathom this comment. BRT on Baseline is very important, but as you get east of Bank, I don't see it. East of the Rideau River and south of the Confederation Line, the north-south routes are much more important transit connections. As we more forward with further development to the south, this is going to be emphasized even more.
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If you look at the land use of Walkley and Heron east of bank you have lots of low density employment and residential. All the local milk run buses that serve those employment districts and residential areas that are more economically dependent on transit would be better connected to meaningful transfer hubs at Hurdman and Blair by routing through the spine of the Crosstown Transitway.
There is also a lot of development potential that can be unlocked by connecting these areas with the city wide network better.
Crosstown Transitway allows circular routes to go from Blair to Hurdman through this spine, Bayshore-Baseline-Hurdman, a Crosstown like the 88 and allows milk runs like 111 or others to have more meaningful terminals with the Otrain network.
But this includes my vision where the ultimate Ottawa Rapid Network would involve giving the Trillium Line the South-East transitway south of Heron. Leaving the existing Trillium Line right of way for a Airport to Train Station rail link. The SE transitway north of Heron should connect with this Crosstown Transitway at the location of Heron station.
Confederation Line
Trillium Line
Airport Rail Link
Crosstown Transitway
Kanata North Transitway
Barrhaven Town Centre to Limebank Transitway
Cumberland Transitway
And the Federal government should charter OCTranspo to operate their own transit route - a DNDEx - that links Moodie to the DND Carling Campus, DND Operations HQ (future), CSA HQ and the DRDC Ottawa Campus at Shirley's Bay.
I think is could be an opportunity where some bus rapid transit routes could have their own branding to distinguish them more as a "line" then merely another milk run bus.
The Crosstown Transitway is another opportunity of these where rapid routes running cross town or to major transfer hubs could be branded in away that differentiates them from local milk runs only using a portion of the transitway.
Rail-less trams and next generation BRT which will be autonomous and electric gives us a lot of possible innovation.
https://youtu.be/G8cGwYfr6vg
Again, stage 3 should be economically finishing an actual city wide network so we make sure all these links are constructed.
But the opportunity to fix the trillium line how I'd like to where the Heron junction clusterfcuk is made logical for a future more logical city wide network of rapid lines is largly gone by.