CANADA region is working hard to integrate the light rail system seamlessly within the cities through which it will travel .
“ We ’ re trying to blend this project within the urban fabric of the region ,” said Bhatti . “ It ’ s going to two Downtown cores , and our objective has always been to accommodate LRT within existing infrastructure , not to destroy the neighborhoods that we intend to serve . The objective has always been : there ’ s development here already , we need to find solutions so LRT can serve these neighborhoods without impacting them .”
Decades of Planning and Forethought Blending a light rail system into a bustling city is a daunting objective , but in the Region of Waterloo it ’ s made less challenging by the fact that rapid transit has been part of the plan for decades . According to Bhatti , the project has been in the minds of region officials conceptually since as early as 1976 .
“ The council at that time understood the need to have future investment in higher order transit in order to accommodate growth ,” said Bhatti . “ They were not just looking at the population we would have
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