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nfitz said:
An interesting tweet from Josh Matlow earlier this evening:

Eglinton & Finch LRTs decided on Feb 8. Sheppard LRT will be approved tomorrow. Action on DRL, Eglinton Crosstown-Airport & more coming soon.

Is Josh hinting that after council confirms support for the Sheppard East LRT, they are going to start looking at further Transit City phases (such as extending the Eglinton line to the airport) and other projects like the DRL?
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Yes. Looks like Eglinton will be built in full.
 
Rainforest said:
Of course the long-haul riders would switch, if the subway was longer.
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A Finch rider is not going to get off the Finch bus, transfer to a bus to travel south, transfer the the subway, and then have to travel back north to continue their trip along Finch. It's just nothing to happen. You guys are making a false assumption a rapid transit is attractive to riders. It's not, if it means a unnecessary transfers.
eg, even if the Sheppard Subway was extended past Don Mills, why would a Finch Rider going past Kennedy use the Sheppard Subway?

I live close to the Steeles / Bathurst highrise cluster. Do you think more people take bus 60 (4 km to Yonge subway), or bus 7 all the way down Bathurst (14 km to Bloor subway)? Bus 60 often gets jam-packed during the AM / PM peaks.
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That's not the point I am making. The Yonge subway goes right into the core, whereas the Bathurst Bus does not. It's a poor comparison.
 
nfitz said:
An interesting tweet from Josh Matlow earlier this evening:

Eglinton & Finch LRTs decided on Feb 8. Sheppard LRT will be approved tomorrow. Action on DRL, Eglinton Crosstown-Airport & more coming soon.

Is Josh hinting that after council confirms support for the Sheppard East LRT, they are going to start looking at further Transit City phases (such as extending the Eglinton line to the airport) and other projects like the DRL?
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Don't get your hopes up. This is about the 700th time the city has looked at building the DRL.

Its kinda curious that they are already talking about the other Transit City lines and the DRL considering that there is no funding for the projects.
 
TheTigerMaster said:
I'm assuming that your talking about building it to the airport. What makes you think that its being built in full? Matlow's tweet is the first time I've heard of an extension to the airport being built in a long time.
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They can bring that vote after sheppard.I think Matlow will bring it to council.
 
There might be the intent, but the go ahead won't happen for a long while - the funding tools aren't even properly discussed, much less approved.

AoD
 
AlvinofDiaspar said:
There might be the intent, but the go ahead won't happen for a long while - the funding tools aren't even properly discussed, much less approved.

AoD
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Some pro-Ford councillors were planning to discuss increasing taxes to pay for Mr. Ford's transit plan recently. If council is seriously considering the DRL the funding issue will likely be brought to council in the coming weeks.
 
If the DRL issue is brought to council I could see Rob Ford and other Scarborough councillor saying that the DRL is just another example of the leftist pinko downtown elites stealing transit from Scarborough. For whatever reason many people from Scarborough seem to think that downtowners hate them. The funny thing about that is that the DRL would benefit Scarborough the most as it would give them quick access to the downtown core.
 
TheTigerMaster said:
If the DRL issue is brought to council I could see Rob Ford and other Scarborough councillor saying that the DRL is just another example of the leftist pinko downtown elites stealing transit from Scarborough. For whatever reason many people from Scarborough seem to think that downtowners hate them. The funny thing about that is that the DRL would benefit Scarborough the most as it would give them quick access to the downtown core.
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I do hate them. I'd writ emore but I have to bike down to the coffee shop to write my novel on my iPad.
 
Why did they not have the vote tonight in council? And why then is Matlow tweeting how the vote will go?
 
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