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Why extend subway to Victoria Park? What if a future DRL goes up Don Mills to Seneca College?

Do you not see the irony when you call for a Sheppard subway when subway is overkill for the entirety of the corridor? We're talking 4.7 BILLION more for Sheppard.

Maybe you haven't noticed the budgets of this year and last year. How many times has the same thing happened to the Sheppard subway in 10 years?

How much does running a bus with 5 passengers on it cost compared to a subway train with 50 passengers? How much did you pay for each? Can you remember the last time subway service was simply wiped out with a stroke of a pen? That's what I thought.

I think too many people obsess too much over transfers. It's not worth trying to come up with madly expensive, complicated, and operationally difficult schemes just to save a small number of people the indignity of having to make a transfer. In a grid based system, you will have transfers. It...

How about a special Sheppard subway user surcharge to bring the per passenger subsidy on that line to the system average? You love your subways now eh?

Just stop thinking along these lines. The arrangement at Downsview won't work without a massive reconstruction and no one will take the line all the way out west just to "avoid" Yonge because it's a waste of time. It's more than 10-15 extra minutes of travel and that's assuming you don't have...

When confronted with numbers and facts that are incompatible with ones beliefs, throw out a distraction...

The 850m section on Queens Quay West between Spadina and Bathurst cost $13 million if I'm remembering correctly.

So nebulous growth and development targets at RHC being the justification for extending the line, you shrug your shoulders and say "who cares" if it doesn't materialize. How very spendthrift. By the way, this is how YRT views bus service. Go go all the feeder routes!

That would necessitate full grade separation and the associated cost.

Why the sudden concern about moving away from the MII rolling stock? No more orphan technology in the system. Good riddance to it. It was the right call.

No really? Tell me something I don't know. But if there's only going to be 1,000 to 2,000 pph moving through a corridor at the very end, it should be a cheaper and lower mode like a bus and the end point of the subway shouldn't be there.

Did you see Mark Towhey's public transit manifesto? It's not far fetched to say they want public transit dead and buried.

What's that list supposed to prove? I don't think local bank branches, local drug stores, or Hallmark Cards are the trip generators that you make them out to be. This is not justification for. I also find the large number of (*) destinations funny. The biggest ones (the college and...

Are you talking about this project? Because the studies predicted a peak point volume north of Steeles at around what Sheppard pulls in. That's a recipe for huge losses. I don't think "successful" is the proper way to describe it if dollars and ridership are going to be any one of the key...

The TTC subway cars need much more room to turn so you better hope your on-street route runs in mostly a straight line. Phew I was worried that you'd talk about Sheppard for a couple of paragraphs and fail to mention the 401. It was a close one but you got it in there at the end. But...

I believe the number thrown around for Sheppard ($10M/year) is a net loss vs bus service.

One, you live in Mississauga and two, it doesn't result in a delay but a full shutdown and turnbacks with shuttle buses.

Commercial strips east of the Don River are on Queen and in East York are centered on Pape. There is nothing on Bloor at Parliament except for a high school. Putting it at Castle Frank might be too far west to make for a well distributed network, it is one station away from the inbound peak...