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Originally Posted by lrt's friend
Both Orleans and Kanata got their Transitway. It's called the Queensway.
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Yes, they have bus lanes on the Queensway. And bus lanes on Woodroffe between Hunt Club and the railway tracks at Fallowfield were all that were needed for Barrhaven, especially since bus lanes are what is used further north on Woodroffe where there are far more streets to worry about. That money could have been spent instead on an actual Transitway station at Fallowfield.
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Transportation to these two communities is a factor of when they were planned, prior to the idea of Transitways and rapid transit. As a result, there is a lack of planned rapid transit corridors except in the newer sections. This has increased costs to deliver rapid transit dramatically and beyond the capacity of the city to fund.
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There are planned transitway corridors both east and west. They have existed at the conceptual level since the mid 1970s. But just because they are planned doesn't mean they aren't going to be costly to build - we need look no further than the recently-developed plan for the section of the West Transitway running north-south between Kanata and Stittsville on an elevated roadway for proof of that.
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So, we had a choice. Build rapid transit to the south more cheaply where corridors were set aside since day one or don't build it at all. The cost of getting the Transitway out to just Moodie Drive is going to be huge and this is why it has taken so long.
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Are you talking about the entire run from Lincoln Fields to Moodie Drive, or just from Bayshore? The bit from Bayshore isn't that expensive, and most of the expense could be avoided if the City and its consultants stopped pussy-footing with the MTO: no more requirements to build three underpasses to get under multiple ramps when rearranging the interchange layout from parclo to diamond would do the job for far less expenditure.