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Originally Posted by tvp2003
I'm curious about the proposed station at 9th Ave. Who is this intended to serve? There are no major transit connections here. The 16th Ave station is a mere 7 blocks away. Is there some sort of proposed development intended to make 9th Ave a new hub? Or is it just for the people that are too lazy to walk up the hill from downtown?
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Lazy, or perhaps just tired, old, or unfit. It's well established that station spacing needs to be tighter around hills to make transit appealing. It's also quite well established that station spacing should get tighter closer to the core - because the perceived impact of a 10 minute walk to a station is far more when your destination is closer. Given both those factors, 9th Ave makes a ton of sense (though I'd rather see at a block south, at 8th).
Another thing that's occured to me is that if the station is going to be deep, i.e. option D, perhaps we could have it double as a means for people to get up and down the hill even if they're not taking transit. Could a pedestrian tunnel connect the bottom of the station with the bottom of the hill at a relatively low angle, and low marginal cost?