Can you elaborate on this? It just doesn't make any sense to me concurrent with a phase 1 SE LRT plan that doesn't even reach the main population...
There is no need for the North Central LRT south of Beddington for many many years because there is more than enough capacity to add capacity with buses.
That we choose not to run enough buses does not mean there is a need for LRT. But once we have decided to run LRT, phasing is the concern.
And you miss what the greenline is, and may be skewing your thought process: it is about getting to massive bus interchange points at 64th Ave and Sheppard, and delivering those bus riders to 7th Ave SW. It isn't about the line going past single family homes.
For phasing what we have for segments is something like this (removing OMC and LRVs from the Greenline, and offsetting greenline operating costs with bus service reductions to get a like for like comparison):
Now since both segments need the downtown segment to be successful, lets break up the Green Line Phase 1 and 2 to 7th Ave and North, and 7th Ave and South, to reflect the minimum possible project extents.
Lets work with this split (and remember that for the decision making process the numbers we can quibble with and still be fine; what matters more is we agree the proportion of each:
You can see even without the more advanced modeling of the incremental segments, that going south makes sense to do, even with all the other things being equal (like assuming an OMC costs the same to go north).
Now: what would I rather happen than what we're doing now?
Just build to McKenzie Towne and 64th nearly simultaneously.
There is no needs for these fights.