dowlingm
Senior Member
"Toronto's chaotic bus network"
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Cyrobyte
New Member
If they don't extend it to Pearson Airport I'm gonna crash out
Thaboss
Active Member
It's pretty obvious that eglinton or finch will make it to the airport. However, the airport authority is one slow moving org. So I wouldn't expect any real movment on this for a very very long time.
A 6264
Active Member
The TTC has been promising rapid transit to the airport since the 1970s. They even put a bus route from Kipling station to the airport on the subway route map above the doors on the trains, as though to pretend there is a subway going there. I suspect Toronto is hoping the people who run the airport will put up a large wad of cash to make it happen, but after all this time, it's still on the wish list for the future.
felix123
Active Member
Agreed, that was far too kind of them"Toronto's chaotic bus network"
GameOnBrad
Active Member
Agreed, that was far too kind of them
I get the impression Fred (the host of the B1M) really likes Toronto, so, that could be it.
WillTo
Senior Member
zang
Senior Member
Hell, I unless I'm wrong the inaccessible "platform" on the north side of Kipling Station was originally designed for a streetcar/LRT that would run to the airport.
Monarch Butterfly
Superstar
Urban Toronto has had a thread on the Pearson Transit Hub at https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threads/toronto-pearson-transit-hub-m-s-gtaa.21541/ since 2015. Also a Eglinton Line 5 Crosstown West Extension Airport Segment thread at https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threads/eglinton-line-5-crosstown-west-extension-airport-segment.34550/ since 2022.
smallspy
Senior Member
The LRT platform is on the south side of the bus terminal, and no - it was to provide an LRT to northern Etobicoke via Kipling and/or the various hydro corridors.
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zang
Senior Member
Sorry, yes, south side. But according to Transit Toronto, the proposed line was to extend to the airport.
"To serve the lower-density suburbs with less expensive rapid transit, the TTC had proposed building high-speed streetcar lines on private rights-of-way fanning out from the terminals of the subway line. Planning for such a system got very far on the SCARBOROUGH RT before the provincial government intervened and convinced the TTC and Metropolitan Toronto to switch the project to the experimental ICTS technology it was building.
A similar high-speed streetcar line was planned to extend from Kipling station, possibly running west and then north along Highway 427 to connect the subway to Pearson Airport. This proposal was taken seriously enough that the architects of Kipling Station built a platform to serve such a line into the station itself. On the bus terminal level, across from the bus roadway, a platform and trench seen today are the only evidence that such a line was under serious consideration. However, beyond this measure, the line never moved past the proposal phase, and as the SCARBOROUGH RT proved to be more expensive than originally hoped for, the Etobicoke RT proposal was quietly dropped."
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MisterF
Senior Member
To be fair, we have rapid transit to the airport. It's not the TTC but it does exist.
zang
Senior Member
Yeah, though it's downtown-centric. Honestly, even though buses are slow, you're probably still likely to get to the airport faster from almost any other part of the city by bus than by getting down to Union and taking the
MisterF
Senior Member
It has stops at Weston, Bloor and (soon) Mount Dennis (interchanges with Lines 2 and 5), so it's not entirely downtown-centric. I don't live downtown but the UP Express is the best way for me to get to Pearson.
I'm not saying that other lines shouldn't be built to the airport. Multiple options are a good thing after all. I'm just saying that talking about rapid transit to Pearson like it doesn't already exist is disingenuous.
dowlingm
Senior Member
if you've never lived anywhere else, maybe. Compared to some places I have, Toronto has a great bus service (which isn't to say it couldn't be better)Agreed, that was far too kind of them