GenerationW
Senior Member
"Segregationist" arrived on a silver platter for Tory today. He played it for all it was worth.
Why would anyone want to travel to Eastern/Broadview? Isn't the whole point of a relief line, that it intersects more than one subway line? What the point of having only 3 stations, centred on Danforth?
"Segregationist" arrived on a silver platter for Tory today. He played it for all it was worth.
Still well over 1hr for me and that would be 2 TTC fares and 1 GO fare thanks to TTC rules on direction of travel and exiting the system.
Also, I drive a hybrid. Gas for me on that commute is about $2.70. Even with maintenance and consumption of the tires and such, I'm looking at ~$3 per trip on my commute if I leave out insurance and car payments (which I'm making anyway). There's no way transit can beat that.
Tell the fare collector to check out this page. Says nothing about direction.
BONUS: Secretly have your phone recording the incident. Maybe some mass media attention will get them to do their jobs properly.
I agree. Transit is great, but if your worst case scenario is 45 minutes, compared to 90 minutes (and often 2 hours) on transit, it's a no brainer.According to Google, this would take me 1 hr 24 minutes. Better than the TTC at 1 hr 34 minutes (which in reality is always closer to 2 hours in morning rush whenever I've done it). And this would cost me $8.19 with the single TTC fare one way. My car does this in 45 minutes with traffic. 30 minutes with no traffic. Costs me $2.70 in gas. $3 if I include maintenance and the cost of tires. If I include depreciation of the car, it's $9. So basically a wash with the TTC/GO combo. But I'm getting to work in half the time, without being exposed to the elements or standing for a good chunk of time in the morning rush.
What about a direct TTC bus to the 407 Transitway to 407 Station (once that's open)? One PM when I had the day off, and had to get to York University for 6:30 pm, I simply jumped on the subway 4 stops to Kennedy, caught a GO Train to Unionville GO, and then took the 407 GO Bus from Unionville direct to York University. It worked quite well ... and I'd never considered going north to come back south again until Google Maps spit it out as an option!Now, if there was a TTC bus to a GO REX station in Malvern, to the Spadina line from Union and I could do all that in less than 75 mins for $5 each way? I'd consider it on slower days.
Why would anyone want to travel to Eastern/Broadview? Isn't the whole point of a relief line, that it intersects more than one subway line? What the point of having only 3 stations, centred on Danforth?
Is this some kind of attempt at humour or a parody?I think 4 stations (Cosburn, Danforth, Gerrard and Queen)
OK - maybe have the line cross the Don and have a station at Cherry. This would give a 5km transit line similar to Sheppard - which also only intersects 1 line. Lets wait for this truncated line to gain riders before we consider extending it to join a second subway line.
For the candidate that talks platitudes about the role of buses in the city, she has a significantly worse (not to mention unfunded and unfeasible) bus plan compared to John Tory and David Soknacki.
Chow's idea of more buses is very touchy-feely but where does she propose putting them? Onto the already crawling streets so they too can sit in traffic?
If she was really concerned about transit and not her ability to win the election she would also include streetcar and bus total ROW thru downtown and major corridors. Bus ROW is faster than LRT because buses can avoid or reroute around accidents etc where as an LRt just sits there. York Region and Miss and their BRTs are the model Toronto should be looking to for improved bus service. Just adding more buses may relieve the over crowding but won't get anybody anywhere any faster without ROW.
For the candidate that talks platitudes about the role of buses in the city, she has a significantly worse (not to mention unfunded and unfeasible) bus plan compared to John Tory and David Soknacki.