City presents Cavendish connection
The city has presented its ideas for connecting Cavendish boulevard via a tunnel under the CN and CP tracks, and with room for pedestrians and cyclists as well as motor traffic.
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DeWolf 10:08 on 2022-03-21 Permalink
Glad to see there’s only one lane for cars in all of the different arrangements. This will presumably help prevent overwhelming the NDG portion of Cavendish with traffic, since it only has two lanes of traffic anyway.
But which of the three arrangements would be best? I’m thinking that 1 would be okay, but there’s a risk that drivers will use the bus lanes. There’s no problem of that happening in 2 but the wide shoulders on the car lanes would invite them to speed. 3 resolves all of those problems but it would create some tricky intersections.
DeWolf 10:16 on 2022-03-21 Permalink
(One lane for cars in each direction, I should clarify.)
Kevin 10:30 on 2022-03-21 Permalink
The trees and multiple medians are a good touch that shows designers are thinking about the psychology of driving and how to force drivers to slow down.
But I think that it may be a very long time before the route gets to look like any of these sketches. The primary short-term reason for this road is to move trucks from the 40 to Blue Bonnets while that sector is developed, and that’s going to very inefficient with just one lane in each direction.
With that in mind, I suspect they will pick Option 1 or 2, with the bus lanes being open to trucks during construction.
mare 11:34 on 2022-03-21 Permalink
For some reason I had never actually looked at a map of the area, probably because last fall was the first time I’ve been in Cote St-Luc.
I was looking at the satellite view and noticed the three giant parking lots next to the CN and CP tracks. Not for their workers, but to store *new* cars. Thousands of them. So it’s not just train infrastructure that occupies a lot of land in that area, but car infrastructure as well, on top of all the “normal” roads and space used for parking.
Also, the tunnel is much shorter than I thought after all those years of delays. I thought it would be something like the REM tunnel to the airport, crossing a multitude of ladder tracks, but there are only a few tracks between the two Cavendishes.
I also agree that variant 3 would be best, but guess it will be 1 or 2, and number 3 is only suggested for the “good, better, best” spiel, common in commerce.