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Residents in Riverside South and Barrhaven could be big winners if city council can find a way to bring Trillium Line trains even farther south as part of the $3-billion Stage 2 transit program.
The city is expected to announce Wednesday afternoon that it’s looking into extending the Trillium Line deeper into the southern suburb as part of its Stage 2 planning. It could be about one kilometre more of track.
The current Stage 2 blueprint has the Trillium Line stopping at Bowesville Road in Riverside South, but transit planners have been exploring the possibility of running the train farther south.
The city is very interested in providing more rail service to the southern suburbs since those communities are growing fast. There was a time when those communities were eager to ride the rails, but council in 2006 cancelled a north-south LRT project, deciding instead to prioritize an east-west system.
Riverside South is adding more homes with a potentially high transit ridership. A community design plan approved last year projected more than 55,000 residents when the suburb is fully developed. In 2014, there were nearly 14,000 residents.
Ideally, the city would want to run trains to the town centre in Riverside South, but it would likely cost millions more and be unaffordable under the current plan.
As the city ramps up procurement of the Stage 2 work, it continues to hunt for improvements that won’t cost taxpayers extra.
The city has done a similar exercise with a planned LRT extension to Moodie Drive. The original westernmost LRT terminus under Stage 2 was Bayshore Shopping Centre, but transit planners did additional work to see if the trains could go farther west under the existing budget.
The Stage 2 plan will bring LRT to Moodie Drive, Algonquin College and Trim Road. The diesel Trillium Line would be extended to Riverside South with a side line to the Ottawa International Airport. The upper levels of government have committed money to help the city build Stage 2, which is scheduled to begin construction in 2019.
Stage 1, which is the 12.5-kilometre Confederation Line LRT between Tunney’s Pasture and Blair station, is scheduled to open in 2018.
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The city is expected to announce Wednesday afternoon that it’s looking into extending the Trillium Line deeper into the southern suburb as part of its Stage 2 planning. It could be about one kilometre more of track.
The current Stage 2 blueprint has the Trillium Line stopping at Bowesville Road in Riverside South, but transit planners have been exploring the possibility of running the train farther south.
The city is very interested in providing more rail service to the southern suburbs since those communities are growing fast. There was a time when those communities were eager to ride the rails, but council in 2006 cancelled a north-south LRT project, deciding instead to prioritize an east-west system.
Riverside South is adding more homes with a potentially high transit ridership. A community design plan approved last year projected more than 55,000 residents when the suburb is fully developed. In 2014, there were nearly 14,000 residents.
Ideally, the city would want to run trains to the town centre in Riverside South, but it would likely cost millions more and be unaffordable under the current plan.
As the city ramps up procurement of the Stage 2 work, it continues to hunt for improvements that won’t cost taxpayers extra.
The city has done a similar exercise with a planned LRT extension to Moodie Drive. The original westernmost LRT terminus under Stage 2 was Bayshore Shopping Centre, but transit planners did additional work to see if the trains could go farther west under the existing budget.
The Stage 2 plan will bring LRT to Moodie Drive, Algonquin College and Trim Road. The diesel Trillium Line would be extended to Riverside South with a side line to the Ottawa International Airport. The upper levels of government have committed money to help the city build Stage 2, which is scheduled to begin construction in 2019.
Stage 1, which is the 12.5-kilometre Confederation Line LRT between Tunney’s Pasture and Blair station, is scheduled to open in 2018.
jwilling@postmedia.com
twitter.com/JonathanWilling
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