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Last week, after Council was briefed about the new alignment plan, Druh tweeted out something about them getting rid of street parking and reducing the width of the sidewalks on Centre Street.

That makes me think that the plan that was presented will maintain 2 lanes of travel in each direction even with the trains.

Right now, the curb lanes on Centre Street are quite wide because parking is allowed on the street at certain times of the day. The curb lanes aren't quite double width, but they are wide enough to have a vehicle parked at the curb with vehicles driving past in the adjacent lane (it's not a lot of extra room, but it is doable).

Also, the existing sidewalks are all very wide along the length of Centre Street, so they could be reduced and still be perfectly functional. Most of the buildings along Centre Street are set back a decent distance from the road, so the road should be able to be widened without disrupting too many existing buildings. The ones that might be problematic are older, smaller places that the city could likely replace with something that generates more tax revenue after the train is running.


The bus pullouts will likely be a casualty of this construction, but if you look at the Max bus lines, they didn't build many (if any) dedicated pullouts for them, so there's probably some data that shows pullouts aren't good and they'd probably like to get rid of them anyway.