PtboLines

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

Trent line
This line connects the west bank of Trent's Symons Campus to downtown Ptbo and continues through the corner of Lock and Lansdowne south to the Otonabee River. This route will have turning loops at the ends. This line will connect with lines: North, Lansdowne and South plus the downtown grid lines. 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.

Fleming line
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 lines: East and Lansdowne 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are imaged as off street traveling along the right away originally set aside for an automobile parkway that is now outdated.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 is being imagined 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 later down Reid and Park from Charlotte.

East line
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 lines: Fleming and Lansdowne. This most challenging area of this line will be where it crosses the heavy rail line, Trent canal and Maria St swing bridge area.

North line and Downtown Grid expansion
This line will introduce the much needed fifth heavy (not just pedestrian/cyclist) 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 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 lines: Trent and East plus the downtown options. This line has the most elevation change of any line in the system. There is a steep grade on Reid St for the block heading north from McDonnel and the route avoids it by shifting west to Downie St. To keep McDonnel one way westbound the return to downtown route will follow the rail right of way from just south of McDonnel at Downie through some parkland, across an old rail bridge and join Bethune at Brock St.

Lansdowne line
Across Lansdowne. This route will have turning loops at the ends. This line will connect with lines: Trent, Fleming, East and South but doesn't not go downtown.

Jackson line and Downtown Grid expansion
A short line serving the pocket of high density population out McDonnel, and along Parkhill and also serve St Peter's Secondary School. There will be a turning loop at the western end of this route until such time as the NorthWest route connect but even then a turning loop is needed. 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.

South line
A loop from the foot of Lock St the south end and up the rail right of way back into downtown. Once built the Trent line may be reconceptualized as stopping downtown with some South cars participating in the downtown grid. This line will connect with the Lansdowne line and is a bridge to get too the rush hour service line Major Bennett.

NorthWest line
A line running across Parkhill from Reid to Brealey then south along Brealey past Crestwood Secondary school and ending at the Fleming college loop. This line will connect with lines: North, Jackson and Fleming but does not go downtown.

Major Bennett line
An extension into the Major Bennett industrial park. Dangling off the South route. Rush hour service.

Neal line
A connector between the end of the East line and Lansdowne line running down River Road S, Bensfort Rd and Neal Dr. Rush hour service.

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