RedRocket191
Senior Member
Well, maybe it should be in future transportation plans...
Hunter's relatively wide, the apartment blocks are set back fairly far from the curb, and I'm fairly certain that they don't have underground parking. It's also a deceptively deep tunnel--it's cutting horizontally through a berm of leftover earth dating back to the various convolutions Lake Iroquois went through, if I remember my tangent-inclined urban geography prof rightly.![]()
The key is including the frequent GO service before the new neighbourhood is built, and building the neighbourhood around the station. Right now, we build the subdivision and then years later try to squeeze in some transit, as always slowly progressing from rush hour buses through full service buses to eventually something higher order decades down the line. It's a lot cheaper to build the rapid transit on empty land before the subdivision is built than squeezing it in a tunnel or whatever years later.
That's how they do it in Europe. They never build a new suburban neighbourhood without first extending regional rail, and the new station becomes the centre of the community. If roads are the only infrastructure when the neighbourhood is first built, they become the centre of the community.
Oh please, the 2 locations are less than a mile away from each other away, as if thats an insurmountable distance.
City bylaw states you must have 1 1/2 parking space for every unit so obviously those apartments have underground parking.
The boundary for downtown Hamilton is from Queen to Wellington and Main St and York Blvd and it also includes all of James St North until LIUNA Station.
Off-peak service on the Stouffville line is planned for next year.Apparently the twinning of the Stouffville line is underway:
http://www.georginaadvocate.com/News/Markham/article/93814
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The first train to Niagara had to stop at the canal for nearly 30mins because a boat was coming through. Perhaps a route through Welland would have been a better choice?
The passing tracks on both the Stouffville Line and the Barrie Line are to be finished this fall. The Stouffville Line passing track is located between Unionville and Denison as mentioned and the Barrie Line passing track is just north of Maple.
The line through Welland goes to Fort Erie, so it would have had to crawl through industrial spur lines to get back to the main to Niagara Falls, if a connection even exists.