Grand River Transit

[timio]

Math 3 at uWaterloo. The latest math building.

[Markster]

This is some new information!

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/rideIONrt">@rideIONrt</a> Block Line major private developmnt proposed integrated with LRT &amp;new GRT terminal. $2mil yesterdy <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/wrLRT?src=hash">#wrLRT</a> <a href="https://t.co/wFaqC4rK9T">pic.twitter.com/wFaqC4rK9T</a></p>&mdash; Tom Galloway (@tomjgalloway14) <a href="https://twitter.com/tomjgalloway14/status/768532092124733441">August 24, 2016</a></blockquote>

A major private development?
I wonder what the scale of this proposed terminal and development is!

[rangersfan]

What does he mean by 2 mil? That the developer would be contributing 2 million dollars to a project for public benefit( a public good)?
Could this development already have been approved?

This is both confusing and intriguing.

[KevinL]

I think he might mean that $2m of the Ontario/Fed transit funding announced yesterday is going into the terminal, but that it wil be integrated into a private development.

[GtwoK]

Where is there room for any sort of private development at Block Line? (that could conceivably be integrated with the station, at least)

[KevinL]

Where is there room for any sort of private development at Block Line? (that could conceivably be integrated with the station, at least)

If a retaining wall is built, between the railway property at the bottom of the hill and the LRT tracks.

I seem to recall a development proposal for that land, several years ago. It seems it may finally have come to fruition.

[Pheidippides]

Updated to include funding per rider basis:
   

[rangersfan]

It doesn't seem like Mr. Galloway provided anymore details on the project at Brockline?

[KevinL]

It doesn't seem like Mr. Galloway provided anymore details on the project at Brockline?

Perhaps he can't, at the moment.

[rangersfan]

This is what I suspect.

[dunkalunk]

From Tom Galloway on Twitter:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/dunkalunk">@dunkalunk</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/rideIONrt">@rideIONrt</a> Not sure of that.Private developer owns land. Money for GRT station with several platforms, shelters &amp; driver facility</p>&mdash; Tom Galloway (@tomjgalloway14) <a href="https://twitter.com/tomjgalloway14/status/768547262544744449">August 24, 2016</a></blockquote>

https://twitter.com/tomjgalloway14/statu...2544744449

[KevinL]

Sounds like they're truly replacing the Forest Glen terminal with this.

[rangersfan]

Is the Forest Glen terminal fairly busy?

[KevinL]

Is the Forest Glen terminal fairly busy?

Yes. Both directions of 12 and 22, termini of the 3, 11, 16, 33, 201.

Pretty much all of these routes will be altered at Ion launch, however; some will be directed away, others will connect at the Strasburg/Block Line intersection instead.

[dunkalunk]

Sounds like they're truly replacing the Forest Glen terminal with this.

Thank Goodness for that!

From conversations with GRT staff, I know they also has plans for a terminal at Sunrise Centre. If you look closely in the business plan, you'll see Route 22 and the Ottawa iXpress diverted onto International Pl and internal roadways.

It also appears that Stanley Park Terminal will still be in operation, although it only really only affects the efficiency of Route 20 compared to Block Line Terminal which makes every route serving SW Kitchener circuitous.