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Everyone move to the back of the bus and we all get home faster.
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Wouldn't most of the houses just lose their front yards?
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I also wanted to add that I like how they complain that everything is being done in secret — and then one of the things they say has been happening is public consultation. Yes, the Region is secretly consulting with and obtaining hundreds of opinions from the public in hidden locations like church halls and the foyer of Regional headquarters. Then secretly issuing RFP documents on their contract procurement site and secretly recording the contract signing on the front page of the local newspaper. Later sneaking the first LRV into town under cover of night and hiding it on a little-used industrial spur until they can bring it to the secret press event the next day.
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03-11-2017, 08:41 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-11-2017, 08:47 PM by DHLawrence.)
The best case scenario would probably be expropriating the south side of Eagle; you'd be taking off street-end properties instead of the entire other side, similar to the Weber widening. It would give streetfront access to Arlington Park at Eagle and Arlington. On the downside, two apartment buildings would have to come down.
I do hope they leave the churches alone, though the top of the hill is a really tough spot to work on so the Macedonian Orthodox church might have to come down anyway. It's pretty much guaranteed that the window and truck repair businesses at the bottom of the hill are doomed; the loft office complex on the river side of the street is designated. Would be a shame if AM Wood had to move, but if they're going to be building a grade separation there I can't see it being avoidable.
I hope the new apartment building was put up with light rail in mind; it would be ridiculous to have to tear it down before it's even ten years old.
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Didn't Preston have the regions first streetcars over 100 years ago, way before Kitchener?
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Is this the same community that complained about NOT being part of the first phase of iON many years ago.... oh, yeah.....
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PS - My favorite part of the letter is the audacity of the Region to build bus stops along Hespeler Rd when we haven't even picked a train route! Classic!
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To be fair, those stops were seen as ridership-building opportunities, and overall most of those stops are where the route (if not the exact stops) of the proposed ION phase 2 alignment would go. Even if they were in the exact correct spot along the line, you would likely have center-running LRT down Hespeler, and it would be a sunk (e.g. to-be-demolished) cost.
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Shoulder-side would probably work too. Might get awkward where it peels off to follow the rail alignment though.
One thing that dismayed me about the new Cambridge Centre bus station is that it isn't really large enough to serve intercity buses. Once Phase 2 is in service, I think the city and region should consider moving the bus terminal to somewhere on Hespeler Road, either at the mall or at Pinebush. Hamilton-bound buses can still stop in Galt, but there's no reason why GO, Greyhound, and Coach Canada should use three different stops in three different parts of the city.
