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Originally Posted by buzzg
Some of those station locations seem so ridiculous, almost nothing around them.
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I know that this is the common consensus around here on the second leg of the southwest corridor, but people forget two things:
1. More people work in the Chevier and Buffalo industrial parks than along the equivalent parallel stretch along Pembina.
2. While the parker lands are empty for now, they provide ample opportunity for transit-orientated development in the future.
With these two things in mind, among many others considerations, it becomes easier to understand why the city went with the relatively more cost-effective option to plow rapid transit through greenfield as opposed to the way more expensive option of ripping up highly-used Pembina or expropriating properties near/along it.