London Rapid Transit (In-Design)

[Steve X]

Do they plan on having it open by the winter?

Seems like it's only a third of the loop. All they are doing is painting the road red, fixing some infrastructure underneath, installing bus shelters and new traffic lights.

 

[Haljackey]

What a mess. A lack of foresight for cycling is going to make Dundas a clusterf*ck.

The bike lanes on King and Queen are being taken out for BRT so cyclists have to use Dundas now. Dundas doesn't have any bike lanes so they came up with this.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/traffic-diversion-starts-thursday-on-dundas-street-1.6014897

 

[drum118]

This area is a bitch for traffic with a plan to make Wonderland into a 6 lane road so drivers can do 80 plus in a 50/60 zone and maintain the low density area. Lack of transit and having 30 plus minute service with no true n-s route does not help the area for moving people that don't have cars.

Another car city like Mississauga

Bus rapid transit friction snarls west London planning​

 

[micheal_can]

This area is a bitch for traffic with a plan to make Wonderland into a 6 lane road so drivers can do 80 plus in a 50/60 zone and maintain the low density area. Lack of transit and having 30 plus minute service with no true n-s route does not help the area for moving people that don't have cars.

Another car city like Mississauga

Bus rapid transit friction snarls west London planning​

With the potential of GO arriving soon, having a good plan for growth will keep the city not feeling like a much bigger city than it already is.

 

[sacred]

With the potential of GO arriving soon, having a good plan for growth will keep the city not feeling like a much bigger city than it already is.

The time to plan was years ago, they’re completely underprepared for what’s coming

 

[Northern Light]

This area is a bitch for traffic with a plan to make Wonderland into a 6 lane road so drivers can do 80 plus in a 50/60 zone and maintain the low density area. Lack of transit and having 30 plus minute service with no true n-s route does not help the area for moving people that don't have cars.

Another car city like Mississauga

Bus rapid transit friction snarls west London planning​

Time for a wholesale turnover of that Council to get one aligned w/environmental and social responsibility.

 

[micheal_can]

The time to plan was years ago, they’re completely underprepared for what’s coming

Absolutely.

 

[drum118]

Nov 16
They paved the based coat on Nov 17 and they have construction lights setup up for Clarence/King Intersection, but not turn on. Buses should be using King Loop in a few weeks.

As a pedestrian, you are screw. You have to walk a block west to cross the street and then back or walk up a block and then go a block east to go south south of King.

 

[ssiguy2]

The merchants of downtown London have taken a pounding in the last few years.

First, the complete reconstruction of the the flex street Dundas Place and as soon as it opened 18 months ago, COVID hit. Now just as the city is starting to reopen again, the Downtown Loop is under construction on one of the primary routes into the downtown, King Street.

When the Loop is finished the city can hopefully go back to normal and flourish with the new infrastructure finally complete and the 4 residence towers under construction {all over 25 stories} begin to fill up with new residents along with the 2 that just finished combined with a whole plethora of high-rise proposals.

 

[ssiguy2]

Finally some good news............the King Street construction portion of the Downtown Loop is done.

The Loop in the downtown is still only half done and the Queen section is next but that will be much less disruptive. For those who do not know the city well, King is a major commercial area and a lot of high-rise development built and under construction. It is home to many restaurants, small shops, Covenant Garden Market, the large downtown arena, the Convention Centre, and the large Citi-Place downtown mall which also has offices and movie theatres. Queen, on the other hand, is mostly office and little else.

After the pounding the downtown has taken over the last few years, it's some good news the downtown is desperate for.

 

[drum118]

London faces time, project crunch to keep $120M in transit funding​

 

[kEiThZ]

I hope Waterloo and Hamilton take most of the growth in Southwestern Ontario going forward. London is quickly becoming a backwards overgrown surburb. And the folks who live there seem determined to keep it that way.

 

[micheal_can]

I hope Waterloo and Hamilton take most of the growth in Southwestern Ontario going forward. London is quickly becoming a backwards overgrown surburb. And the folks who live there seem determined to keep it that way.

They don't want to turn into another bedroom community.

 

[kEiThZ]

They don't want to turn into another bedroom community.

They seem to be doing their best to go that way. Not just a bedroom community. But a failed rust belt city to boot! What other explanation is there for refusing to build a transit system when the province and feds are offering to pay for 70% of it? Unbelievable.

Growth will and should go to communities that have a little more common sense. And those cities can leverage their transit investments to actually build proper and vibrant urban areas. Not the suburban crap that London is overloading on.

 

[robmausser]

I hope Waterloo and Hamilton take most of the growth in Southwestern Ontario going forward. London is quickly becoming a backwards overgrown surburb. And the folks who live there seem determined to keep it that way.

Ill say it again and again, as someone who grew up next to London, its the largest hick town in Canada.