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Originally Posted by moncton golden flames
I know, I live along the corridor.
I see successful BRTs all over the place and wonder why we are so set on LRT. I know we have a good track record (pardon the pun) but why can't a BRT work for the Green Line?
What about building a solid BRT from Seton to Country Hills with a downtown tunnel. We get the connections we need, the future tunnel for a transition to LRT if we need it. A tunnel will never be cheaper than today.
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The beauty of BRT is that you don't need a tunnel, but can actually serve DT better. DT is short and wide (the true core is about 1800m wide x 750m tall - depending on how you want to define things but the shape/ratio stays about the same). So two stops running N-S doesn't cover the breadth of DT as well as 3-4 stops running E-W
So you'd build proper BRT corridor(s) in DT to serve all the MAX lines that run there.
But BRT for the north is lipstick on a pig. It's actually ready for LRT to the point we'd see operational savings (whereas a relatively low frequency LRT to the SE is operationally more expensive than a higher frequency BRT would be)