[HillStreetBlues]

Anyone interested in transit can see in black-and-white now how poor the decision to use Wharncliffe is. Firstly, it’s in mixed traffic. Even just a kilometre of that between Riverside and Oxford could have a significant impact on speed and, more importantly, reliability.

Secondly, the Queens Ave Bridge will get transit lanes at the expense of the bike lanes, and one of the sidewalks. Who thinks it’s okay to have sidewalk on only one side of one of the two main bridges entering downtown?

Running only westbound buses in dedicated lanes on Oxford somehow seems to be the worst. That says it all to me: halfway is supposed to be good enough.

They shouldn’t be allowed to call this BRT. BRT can be great, but too many municipalities come up with plans like this, and have the gall to use the term. What’s proposed are two bus lines that run in dedicated lanes for some but not all of their routes. London will still have the construction headaches, but the end result will be a lot less useful.