10-03-2025, 12:46 PM
(10-03-2025, 08:13 AM)Momo26 Wrote: Everything comes with a cost.
Let's face it...this thing's ridership came from 1/3 to maybe 1/2 college students and many other transient residents.
It did not serve any suburban centre or area whatsoever (not without a connection- or two!)
Would ridership flock in Cambridge?
We have a massive new hospital on the horizon...can we addord a Cambridge LRT extension?
"It did not serve any suburban centre or area"...
Erm? Fairway Mall, Block Line, Mill, Borden, R&T Park, Northfield, Conestoga Mall.
Even if I'm extremely generous and give you our extremely suburban Universities as "urban" along with the relatively sprawling void between Kitchener and Waterloo, the vast majority of the line is still serving suburban sprawl areas.
And I'm not sure what serving students and "transient residents" (whatever those are) has to do with whether we should build it or not?
As a former "transient" "student" in the region, I find this kind of attitude frustrating at best. I stayed in the region after school DESPITE the attitude I got from older residents in the city not because of it.