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Originally Posted by topfiverecords
I'm not 100% up to date, but I thought the green line had to go to the SE first because of the location of the maintenance facility?
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Originally Posted by Joborule
That's their reasoning behind it, as well as city owning all the required right of way for the line already in SE. But there's a big area in the north right by inbetween Beddington Trail and Airport Trail that could have the maintenance facility, but it was never seriously considered.
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Originally Posted by accord1999
Aurora Business Park at 96th Avenue N is large enough for a maintenance yard.
But picking the direction of the Green Line based on the ideal location of for a maintenance yard, versus the higher ridership and bus capacity constraints of Centre Street N, is the tail wagging to the dog
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A big reason for going south was because Keating fought hard for it, and Chu supported it presumably because LRTs are only a small step up on bicycles, so that's where the political will shifted. Given the land acquisition being easier going SE with an easy maintenance yard, that's how they went with it. The idea going SE was the plan is a big reason for choosing a SE maintenance yard which is why it made going SE the more prudent move...so yeah.
Having the North route going up Centre Street, where people actually are, instead of up Nose Creek, where people are not, is also relatively new in the whole Green Line saga as well, which is part of the reason the land acquisition and ROW was behind the SE (which was exacerbated when the focus was put on going SE).