General Township Updates and Rumours

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Makes sense to extend it already, Breslau such a rapidly growing suburb of the city. An extended Ottawa Street and a bridge over the river would also be great for public transit. It'd provide a much more direct route across the river to growing suburbs over there, meaning you could have something like the 204 (or whatever number it is) cross that, go up Woolwich and back down Victoria. Or a more localized bus route could be created which would be good for the Grand River North neighbourhood. I don't think they have any bus service. It'd also be good for first responders, connect a lot of businesses and cut off some time it takes to get to the aiport.

A bridge over Ottawa could also be useful whenever we build another LRT line...reclaim that old quarry area and zone it for high density development, run it over the river to connect to the airport then Breslau/Breslau GO then to downtown and so on. :'P

I mean, we know that Ottawa St has been earmarked for a potential LRT route in the future. Seems like a total obvious opportunity to link up the airport and/or Breslau GO station on the far end. If the new hospital ends up getting built on the Aud space (like Luisa thinks it should be), and the far end terminates at the Sunrise Centre, an LRT line along Ottawa could be really useful.

Breslau does have bus service, but it's an interesting pilot project where the bus doesn't have a set schedule, but you book a time and place in advance and it basically compiles all the requests to make a route and schedule. Definitely not for hopping on the bus on a whim. https://www.grt.ca/en/schedules-maps/rou...of-service

At any rate, I thought it was interesting when you look at the current end of Ottawa St, how the city has clearly left the space open to continue it straight forward across the river, with no houses fronting on that stretch of road. This has quietly been in the works for a long time.