Tuesday, September 18, 2012
LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT (LRT)
Well here's a name from the past both in Woolwich Township as well as further afield. Bob Verdun, former owner and editor of the Elmira independent has weighed in upon the LRT plans in Kitchener-Waterloo. His Letter to the Editor in yesterday's Waterloo Region Record asks the very sensible question as to why the Region are spending $51 million on improving a bottleneck on Weber St.. The title of his Letter is "Light rail transit is doomed to failure" and he makes a compelling case. This bottlenck occurs at the south end of Waterloo at Guelph St. and runs for several blocks down to Victoria St. The rest of Weber St. is four lanes and is a major artery through the cities. As Mr. Verdun indicates, this road widening will simply make motorists even less likely to park their cars in favour of LRT, so why do it?
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The main reason I am against LRT is that about half of the rail line will be on the street. The trains should be separated from roadway vehicles
ReplyDeleteI am familiar with the street cars in downtown Toronto (along Spadina) and the subway line that runs in the middle of Allen Expressway. But do other cities have rapid transit on their streets?
Good question. Don't know.
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