In no way is the 34 better than Line 5. Maybe in scarborough, but in the centre of the city the bus will get held up at every major intersection especially avenue and approaching Allen either way. I've taken this bus route for 10 years and Line 5 is leagues better.
I take this line almost every day and have never had issues with extensive waits for a train. Often the train arrives just as I hit the platform. At worst I've waited about 7 minutes.
I realize I'm a day late to the party but wanted to share some of my thoughts from opening day:
- The underground portion is real quick. For my use case, I live at Chaplin and generally just need to get to Cedarvale or Eglinton stations, perhaps a bit further now that it is easy to do so. I can...