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Originally Posted by Snakeeye
Yes, and they will be stopping on the west line. More cars, certainly, but more track too.
Route 202 will still have trains stopping at each station every five minutes during the rush, just like now. The only difference is that the end of line will no longer be 10th street, but somewhere farther west.
Unless they change the interval between trains, there will still be the same number of trains downtown.
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I have seen *preliminary future c-train platform plans and it seems that one of the new legs of the train will follow the existing CP Rail tracks that go between 9th and 10th avenues. All of the tracks will utilize the existing infrastructure in place in one way or another.
Now this was from a future underpass design for the 4th street/olympic way underpass that is planned to connect stampede park to the east village. So it could be for future SE rail expansion only. However, this train corridor provides a great way for the city to add two more legs of C-train service without severly disrupting downtown traffic flow.
*This could very well mean that it's only a thought for now.