07-04-2017, 09:58 PM
(07-04-2017, 08:20 PM)nms Wrote:(07-02-2017, 09:01 PM)PhilippAchtel Wrote: That transfer point is supposed to be online for the Fall schedule in 9 weeks. You gotta wonder what they're waiting for. While we're in the subject, the roadway by the centre island looks very narrow. I think there's a similar island on the other side with concrete pillars at the corners. I hope they don't underestimate the extra width and turning radius that buses need compared to cars.
My understanding is that something was underestimated. Someone recently tried to take a bus through that intersection either turning onto or off of that laneway and it didn't work. It may be a back to the drawing board issue. Among other issues, there is not enough space between the tracks and the Ring Road for a bus to wait its turn to enter the 4-way stop intersection without fouling the LRT tracks.
If this is true then there is some pretty serious incompetence on Regional/GRT staff. You don’t publish a plan saying you’re going to build a bus terminal somewhere without making sure the surrounding environment as built or planned to be built actually allows the proposed construction. This isn’t a minor screw-up like that missing curb cut on Caroline, which is unfortunate but unavoidable in a project of the magnitude of the LRT. The idea that they’re just now noticing that there is an issue with a road intersection separated by almost nothing from the LRT tracks is mind-boggling. This has been raised on this forum by hobbyists here in the peanut gallery on several occasions; is it too much to expect that one of GRT’s paid professionals would do a site visit and put on their thinking cap a little bit?