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An elevated RT would be excellent for this scenario.
Considering Peel Region (pop:1.32M) is getting at-grade LRT, an elevated RT in Oshawa (pop:170K) seems unlikely..
Lol that’s a false equivalency. If you want you could compare municipalities but why region to city? Also Oshawa’s CMA is 415,000.
This is much needed as an Oshawa resident. Please keep us updated.
Yea an elevated LRT wouldn’t be feasible for this location. I believe the best option would be a partially above and underground LRT. Throughout the open house, they mentioned that they want to keep pedestrian and vehicle routes the same, it would be hard to widen the road between rossland all the way to Olive street. Since the houses and businesses were built right by the roadway.
Fair, but the Hurontario LRT runs between Mississauga and Brampton while this would just be serving Oshawa.
Yes, a grade separated LRT would be nice in Durham. I think it would work in the north end, like near taunton road where there isn’t a lot of development in that area (mainly in Ajax and Pickering. Oshawa and Whitby has a lot more development along Taunton road). At places where there are developments it could run underground or above ground.
And tbh it was probably a mistake.
The stop spacing seems way too close.
It seems close in the drawing but they are pretty spaced out in reality. It’s also an LRT so they won’t be as long as subway cars.
I measured out some of the spacing in google maps, and for the most part it isn't so bad for surface RT. For underground, 400-600m spacing (not including platforms) is pretty close (Line 5 has closer to 800m spacing and probably also triple the density). To me it simply does not make sense for this line to be underground given the severe lack of density and length, and the more local function this line seems to imply. BRT dedicated lanes (similar to VIVA) where room permits, and que jump lanes with signal priority where space is tight make the most sense (practically and cost wise) IMO.
