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Originally Posted by bizaro86
This is the biggest reason it was foolish to build the west line now. They should have done South-East or North-Central first, would have been way more ridership.
I know a number of people who currently ride the 104/101 who are planning to drive downtown after their buses divert to the LRT line, which offsets some of the benefit of building the thing in the first place.
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They didn't have nearly enough money available to build either the SE or NC line. The SE line would have been first, and if they had spent the WLRT money to get it started, it would have either: be finished downtown and get to blackfoot trail, or stop at the edge of downtown and get to Glenmore. Both are sort of useless.
NC line is much further behind in planning than the SE line, but would have a similar problem - it can't share ROW with an existing line downtown, and thus would need a new one. The WLRT could be built as an extension to the NE line.