PtboLines

Details about each of the individual lines of the proposed Peterborough Streetcar systems

Line 1: Trent
This line connects the west bank of Trent's Symons Campus to downtown Ptbo and continues through to the corner of Lock and Lansdowne. This route will have turning loops at the ends. This line will connect with lines 4, 5 and 7 plus downtown options. Sections of this route are imaged as off street traveling along the rail corridor from George and Water to Bethune, and also along the eastern edge of Water St in parkland.

Line 2: Fleming
This line connect Fleming's Sutherland Campus to downtown Peterborough and continues across the Ashburnham bridge through the commercial district of East City. This route will have turning loops at the ends. This route will also serve Peterborough Regional Health Center and Holy Cross Secondary School. This line will connect with line 3 and 5 plus downtown options. Sections of this route are imaged as off street traveling along the right away originally set aside for an automobile parkway that is now outdated. This route will cross Lansdowne at Clonsilla and use a small right of way southwest of Holy Cross to get into the residential area leading to Fleming College.

Downtown Grid and Carhouse
The first two lines traverse downtown and share a route along Bethune between Hunter and Charlotte. This area, behind the library could become a hub of the transportation system. To keep tracking simplified and one way a grid has been imagined with cars running south on Bethune (a west side of downtown and ripe for redevelopment) and north on Water St. There would be four cross connects - McDonnel and Hunter, both westbound and Sherbrook and Townsend, both eastbound with appropriate turning options to provide frequent service in the downtown area. The vacant parking lot immediately north of the CPR heavy rail line just east of Park St are being considered for storage barns/carhouse so there would be a couple of routes in and out of that parcel of land - from the corner of Bethune and Townsend and down Reid and Park from Charlotte.

Line 3: East
This line will run the north-south side of Peterborough with the east bank Trent's Symons Campus at one end and the industrial park, south of the bypass expressway as it's south end. This route will have turning loops at the ends. This route will also serve Thomas A Stewart, the growing population at the east end of Hunter and provide access to key tourism destinations: The Lift Lock and the Canoe Museum. There will be a transfer points to line 2, 4 and 5. This most challenging area of this line will be where it crosses the heavy rail line, Trent canal and Maria St swing bridge area.

Line 4: North
This line will introduce the much needed fifth heavy bridge crossing of the Otonabee River. The route will give riders in north-eastern Peterborough good access to their closest retail district along Chemong Road. This route will also serve Thomas A Stewart and Adam Scott Secondary Schools (though it and the bridge may render ASCVI redundant). The route will traverse the length of Chemong Road and provide a route downtown. There may be a turning loop at the eastern end of this route so it can return across the line without needing to use the Trent east loop but at the downtown end this car will participate in the downtown grid to get reoriented. There will be connections to line 1 and 3 plus the downtown options.

Line 5: Lansdowne
Across Lansdowne. This route will have turning loops at the ends. This line will connect with lines 1, 2, 3 and 7 but doesn't not go downtown.

Line 6: Jackson and Downtown Grid expansion
A shortline serving the pocket of high density population out McDonnel, and along Parkhill and also serve St Peter's Secondary School. There may be a turning loop at the western end of this route but at the downtown end this car will participate in the downtown grid to get reoriented. There could be an expansion of the downtown grid down Park St to the carhouse to provide better capacity for that aspect of the system and also to support the western edge of the central growth area of downtown.

Line 7: South
A loop from the Memorial Center across the south end and up the rail right of way back into downtown. Once built line 1 may be reconceptualized as stopping downtown with some South cars participating in the downtown grid. This line will connect with line 5 and is a bridge to get too the rush hour service line 8.

Line 8: Way South
An extension into the Major Bennett industrial park.

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