mdrejhon
Senior Member
I think it will function like a James Street people mover, with extremely frequent service that transferring becomes painless.
It probably should connect to Metrolinx's GO bus terminal, which is only 3-4 blocks south of King, and provides a less-congested location away from Main-King to reverse direction of the James people mover (A-Line spur).
My question is what will happen to car traffic on James. I'm all for slowing down cars to 2-way (As long as there's fast options like the underused Burlington expressway), but I don't think Hamilton is yet ready to completely eliminate cars from James street. We're not that progressive, yet. Someday perhaps, but not yet. So we need to find a way to share James Street between LRT and cars, without slowing down LRT too much.
In theory, it may be possible they may decide to run different directions on different streets (James & John) to preserve car lanes and streetside parking. This would be better than doing the slow non-grade-separated streetcar technique that Toronto does, as there's not enough room to separate LRT from car traffic on James Street. So either it would have to be shared traffic (slow, slow!) or a single traffic-separated LRT lane, with a separate direction on a parallel street such as John or Bay. Maybe a revitalization opportunity for a different street? Hope the study looks at this.
It probably should connect to Metrolinx's GO bus terminal, which is only 3-4 blocks south of King, and provides a less-congested location away from Main-King to reverse direction of the James people mover (A-Line spur).
My question is what will happen to car traffic on James. I'm all for slowing down cars to 2-way (As long as there's fast options like the underused Burlington expressway), but I don't think Hamilton is yet ready to completely eliminate cars from James street. We're not that progressive, yet. Someday perhaps, but not yet. So we need to find a way to share James Street between LRT and cars, without slowing down LRT too much.
In theory, it may be possible they may decide to run different directions on different streets (James & John) to preserve car lanes and streetside parking. This would be better than doing the slow non-grade-separated streetcar technique that Toronto does, as there's not enough room to separate LRT from car traffic on James Street. So either it would have to be shared traffic (slow, slow!) or a single traffic-separated LRT lane, with a separate direction on a parallel street such as John or Bay. Maybe a revitalization opportunity for a different street? Hope the study looks at this.
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