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Originally Posted by pepper24
Green Line LRT was going to cost too much and be way over budget if we wanted everything that was originally planned. $15B like posted above. Way too much and good to see it being cancelled.
Instead...
Extend the south line at Somerset-Bridlewood station east along the south part of the ring road all the way to the deep southeast (McKenzie Towne, Cranston, Auburn Bay etc.) with tons of rapid bus transit from surrounding communities and park and ride at stations.
Extend the NE line from Saddletowne station to airport. Up 60th St NE then west on Aiport Trail. Hopefully no issues with Airport tunnel and if tunnel was built without considering LRT expansion then that's just bad city planning.
For North Central. Increase bus capacity into downtown along Center Street and add more car pool/bus lanes.
Get back to 4 cars for each LRT, not sure why I only see 3 cars and full LRTs.
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Firstly, welcome back to the thread. It’s always good to get as many differing opinions heard, even if I often consider some of those opinions to be less than well thought out.
Secondly, the idea of extending the existing red line to seton would be completely impractical and make the existing lines far worse. They already have plans to go further south to 210 ave, but additionally crossing an entire quadrant heading east would not only make the commute time to downtown using the lrt longer than driving, but would add way too many riders for 4 car trains to handle.
Basically it would service fewer communities, ruin the existing service and still cost an arm and a leg. Our governments do a good enough job of planning like that, we shouldn’t be encouraging it.