Comment 51646

By Pxtl (registered) - website | Posted November 16, 2010 at 14:07:08

@Reality

Yup.

Now, I think the first step to getting people to understand LRT not to call it LRT. People think streetcar.

It's a street-level subway. It's taking two lanes of traffic and puttin a subway line on them at street level.

Hamilton wants a subway. Then people get it. People who've taken the TTC subway get it, fast.

But then people ask about those two lanes*. King street giving up streetside parking? For half a billion dollars? Are you on crack?

Once LRT takes centre stage, expect the legions of quiet suburbanites, even the ones in denser residential areas like Rosedale and Ainsliewood, to scream in protest.

footnote: * King needs streetside parking - imho it should stay one-way if it gets LRT, just to save that parking lane. Oh, and has anybody thought what's going to happen to the traffic on Dundurn with King no longer being a good alternative to Cannon/York Blvd?

Comment edited by Pxtl on 2010-11-16 13:08:11

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