General Township Updates and Rumours

[Bytor]

While we're at it how about we send the LRT down to Maple Grove then, stops for Toyota and all that industrial area,

Industrial areas like that rarely, if ever, produce enough ridership to make an LRT worthwhile. Where "worthwhile" is enough ridership such that the average cost per ride comes down to below that of a bus route for teh same number of people. With rough North American costs, that's somewhere around 7,000 boardings per average weekday.

BTW, this route was presented by anti-LRT NIMBY's back in 2017 doing their best trying to appear "reasonable", and it was honestly looked at by the Region and rejected for the dumb idea that it was.

then just over to Hespler

Hespeler and Maple grove barely hav enough people riding the iXpress 203 (barely 1,000/weekday in fall 2019) to make it worthwhile, so an LRT would require LOTS of increase to get there.

The iXpress 206 from Fairway through Preston to Galt tripled the 203's ridership when it started up in September 2019.

And if you're talking about connecting from Ac3r's hupothetical Ottawa LRT down Fountain to Maple Grove, that's an worse idea to fo an LRT from low density Breslau through rural township to low=density Maple Grove. You'd have less people than ride the 203.

where you can cross the Speed River on the bridge it's wide enough for a set of tracks, then just a guideway like they're doing for the Hurontario LRT across the 401 and half the expense to get to Cambridge is solved. No more Grand River and Speed River Bridge,

No, you still have to bridge both rivers as you have to get from Fairway station down to Sportsworld to then go out Maple Grove. All you're doing is moving the bridge across the Speed from Preston to Hespeler.

no Bridge across the hwy 8 ramp, no bridge across Fairway, no bridge across the CN/CP tracks in Preston. You're making all the people of Preston happy and connecting the industrial to some transit for once.

Don't mistake loud NIMBY's for the actual resident majority sentiments. They'd be far more happy with a Preston station and quality, reliable transit to the rest of Cambridge as with the current proposed Stage 2 route.

I also bet that people would be okay with the LRT crossing the Grand River on Ottawa since they're getting another road connection. Seems like a perfect way to appease everyone.

You're basically proposing spending billions on an LRT with ridership of less than the iXpress 203. Yeah, that real nice appeasing you got there.