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Originally Posted by Aylmer
According to the American Public Transportation Association standards, a BRT ROW should be about 6 metres (18 feet) wide per direction or an absolute minimum of 5 metres. However, LRT can run on a ROW of 3 metres even with a canetary, or about half the space. Without the canetary, it can be as small as 2.6m of ROW (this according to the City of Hamilton documents).
You're quite right, which is why my proposal has rail going through the denser centre of Aylmer as well as other dense neighbourhoods like Val-Tétreau instead of going through the Plateau and North Aylmer, as the BRT proposal would.
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Ideally, you would have two lines: one to the north serving North Aylmer and Le Plateau (and also Wrightville and that part of Hull) and the other to the south along the Aylmer Road and Alexandre-Taché.
I am not thrilled with the rumoured alignment along les Allumettières, but it may be that we will not have the money or political will to do more than one corridor. So if Allumettières it is, hopefully once the line is in the Aylmer area it will swing south (maybe along the mothballed Autoroute Deschênes corridor) to move it closer to the historic centre of the community.