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Originally Posted by Table 5
No, I mean a line that goes in a circle around the inner city neighborhoods, that only services the inner city neighborhoods. Ie, a subway/tram that goes from Beltline > Kensington > Sunnyside > Bridgeland > East Village > Victoria Park > Mission > Beltline. These are the neighborhoods where you have people willingly living the inner city life, yet don't necessarily have an easy/quick way of getting from one neighborhood to another. I think a little euro-style at-grade tram line adjacent to the main streets would be great.
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A lot of those connections already exist though. Bridgeland to Sunnyside? Take take the train downtown, swap trains, you're in Sunnyside.
Vic Park to Sunnyside? One train.
Vic Park to Bridgeland? Two trains.
Beltline/Mission to Sunnyside? #3 bus, then a train.
An inner city line might be nice in isolation, but given the choice I think I'd pick the 8th Ave Subway and high frequencies on key bus routes instead. After all, having room to get on on the train at Vic Park doesn't just make it so that you can get to Sunnyside, it gets you to the University as well which the inner city loop does not do.