Markster
Senior Member
Shadows of the 2006 LRT plan:
http://www.ottawasun.com/2014/11/12/lrt-graveyard-in-barrhaven-gets-median-bus-lanes
It's nice to see them use the corridor anyway! And frankly, it makes a lot more sense to build it up as BRT first, and allow LRT to come naturally as extensions from the north (Woodroffe) or east (the North-South LRT plan) as demand requires.
Later in the article, people start making the standard "what about the children?!" complaints. I'm not sure if these people realize that there are the exact same concerns with LRT. And the road was built with LRT planned. If you are truly worried about your children, then you have moved into the wrong neighbourhood.
To my knowledge, this the first in-median BRT corridor in Ottawa!
http://www.ottawasun.com/2014/11/12/lrt-graveyard-in-barrhaven-gets-median-bus-lanes
LRT 'graveyard' in Barrhaven gets median bus lanes
Chapman Mills Dr. in Barrhaven shows the leftover scars from the carved-up north-south LRT plan.
It's not a particularly long stretch, but it's unusually wide. So wide, in fact, that the city can run a pair of bus lanes down the median.
"It's the graveyard of the LRT," Gloucester-South Nepean Coun. Steve Desroches said Wednesday. "But we were not going to give up that corridor."
Just after the morning commute, OC Transpo opened the special bus lanes that run up the gut of the road, plus a new station at Beatrice Dr. served by Route 99. The lanes and station cost about $5 million.
The previous north-south LRT blueprint, which was cancelled by council in 2006 in favour of the east-west track route currently under construction, made sure to have a wide Chapman Mills Dr. to handle the trains.
"This is the only part of the city we built up around LRT," Desroches said.
It's nice to see them use the corridor anyway! And frankly, it makes a lot more sense to build it up as BRT first, and allow LRT to come naturally as extensions from the north (Woodroffe) or east (the North-South LRT plan) as demand requires.
Later in the article, people start making the standard "what about the children?!" complaints. I'm not sure if these people realize that there are the exact same concerns with LRT. And the road was built with LRT planned. If you are truly worried about your children, then you have moved into the wrong neighbourhood.
To my knowledge, this the first in-median BRT corridor in Ottawa!