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The point is that the Sheppard LRT doesn't add any transfers (there is already one at Don Mills Stn.) and Eglinton actually eliminates one (at Yonge).

Some people complain about overbuilt stations, and some people complain about the boring B-D stations. You can't both be right. Personally I'm happy to finally see a government agency prepared to spend money on beautiful things. Far too much of our built environment is ugly in this city.

This is all conjecture. Sure we can put another platform at Union to handle all the extra GO passengers, but will the DRL take them where they are going? Thats a big question, because there's no point serving it if nobody needs to go east or west of the core. And, as I said before, a lot of...

Oh yeah, there it is. It just hasn't been designed at all...

True. why not put the bus terminal in the hydro corridor, like the other Finch station? And isn't there supposed to be an LRT on finch? what happened to that?

1. I think its strange to say that King cant be disrupted because it has a heavy streetcar route. Seems like a good reason to put a subway under there. It will need to be bored downtown, because it needs to be deep enough to get under the YUS line. Its worth a few years of disruption for...

The substation box over the bus terminal looks very out of place. I hope that just got added last minute and hasn't been figured out yet. I could also do without the sketchup renderings. Makes it look like a first year arch. school project.

I dont buy the Wellington argument. Yes, it makes for a shorter walk for anyone transferring to Union. But it also makes for a longer walk for anyone wanting to get to King/Queen or anywhere to the north. Will there really be so many people transferring from GO to the DRL? This is a good...

These distances are along Wellington, taken from the city CAD file Yonge-University = 566m Bay-York = 275m University-Simcoe = 125m Yonge-Church = 292m So, the three station set-up would have one station reaching about 25m west of Simcoe, and the other reaching about 35m past Victoria...

I think a valuable change in TTC station naming standards would be to rename their transfer stations based on neighbourhoods, or something else instead of two street names. I'd love to see Bloor-Yonge and Sheppard-Yonge get new names, as well as integrating GO and TTC station names at Dundas...

Why not name one King, and the other St. Andrew. They can both have an out of system transfer to Union, using a well-marked route in the PATH. Presumably we will have smart cards by then, which can allow people to enter Union for free if they recently left st. andrew or king, and vice versa.

I agree with the two station approach. It makes for easier transfers, has twice the capacity, and has redundancy.

There is enough space for platforms, but the train will be entering one station before it has fully left the previous one. I think people can manage the walk (underground if desired) between Yonge and University just fine.

New bike lanes equal new bike commuters equals fewer cars on the roads. Probably not on the DVP, but on downtown streets anyway.

I agree thats a problem for somebody unfamiliar with the system. But I don't see how terminal signage will solve the problem. You find a map, find the station you want to travel to, then instead of just knowing what direction you start out going (most people know the north=up convention)...

Many systems still use directions in one way or another. I find it more useful, as I always know what cardinal direction I'm going but don't always know the end points on a system I'm unfamiliar with. I lived in a city with these terminal-bound directions and it took months before I could...

In that vein it would be interesting to see how ridership growth is related to parking growth along each line. Or how total ridership compares to total parking capacity per line. Is that data around somewhere?

I think it sets a pretty bad precedent if Metrolinx/TTC starts expropriating homes for TC lines. Costs will increase, but they can avoid a lot of bad publicity that will hurt them on all other TC projects. The Nimbys will be our in force against every single line if they think there is a...

Yes, there are some houses no more than a few metres from the curb. There isn't really much space that could be taken away without seriously affecting those properties.

And if Eglinton ever gets converted to subway operation, its an orphan line, unable to swap any equipment with the other lines. Not the end of the world, but not ideal either.