it's literally a half a km through a field. You could literally have another Century Park here if done right... but yeah let's have a 12 person minibus and wait until the empty field is developed before we think a little bigger.
The best thing to do is move one step at a time and stay the course of what is currently planned. We are well spread out with too few populations that it will come back to haunt us in 20 years when repairs and maintenance requires some major overhauls. What you had to say has me salivating, but, when we keep adding projects and thinning out attentiveness to current constructions, it takes the focus away from what we can barely handle in the moment- financially and physically; case in point, just look at the Milwoods line. Our city's administrations are not the brightest as they have demonstrated one disaster after another over the last decade. Further to this, to establish all that will be required to build 1/2 kilometre of tracks would be quite irresponsible not to mention unfeasible from the economic angle.
I don't disagree, really. I wasn't thinking something that should happen right away. The problem is we don't generally plan ahead very well so when the time does come it's often more expensive - or entirely impossible - due to a lack of prerequisite planning. Gotta think bigger, earlier.
If I recall correctly, the reason they ended the NAIT line at Health Sciences was that the at-grade crossing on University Ave would struggle with the added trains. Still can't believe they didn't grade-separate that one from the start.
Even more interesting is how the Metro Line ran to Century Park for about seven years before they pulled the plug on that. But also a good point about how brutal the University Ave crossing planning was—the volume of traffic going through there just from SWers trying to get to downtown alone is substantial.