Monday morning commuters may find Adelaide Street a little harder to drive down.
The bus rapid transit (BRT) is expanding in London, with the East London Link Phase 1 construction beginning on Monday. The construction on the corner of King Street and Adelaide Street North will be seeing sections of King closed off to install the next phase of the public transport system. This wing of the expanding transit system looks to link the downtown area with Eastern London, with the route travelling up to Fanshawe College.
The BRT was a project initially pitched to contain four branches and a central hub, with transit routes travelling north, east, south, and west. But, as London Transit spokesperson Kelly Paleczny explains, London City Council decided to only move forward with some of the five planned routes: “[Council] chose to proceed only with the East and the South legs, as well as the downtown loop, which kind of combines those two.”
The construction project is phase 1 of the eastern route in the bus rapid transit system, and is expected to close down King Street for four months before completion.
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