Voltz
Senior Member
^ LRT Won't work as long as someone wants a subway
Have you seen Eglinton west? It has 2 intersections per km, and there's plenty of road space. It's almost a perfect street for LRT.
A bus won't easily handle the tunneled section.
On the street! That stretch of Eglinton doesn't even need LRT -- why are we spending millions of dollars per km to build nothing more than a gold-plated "bus" service that uses steel wheels?
Transit City will be a disaster. Construction will drag on, disruption to the surface will be severe, cars won't be able to cross the ROW between intersections, riders will complain of fewer stops and longer walks, and the new service won't be much faster than buses when you factor in the longer waits.
All the projected cross town lines dump riders on the Yonge subway, the more successful they are in attracting ridership the more they stress the already crowded Yonge subway.
A bus is not the solution for everything, either. Ever tried to just simply drive on a street like Finch? There's usually 4-5 buses clumped together and they all have to make a stop at each stop because they're all packed and they all have someone pulling the string to get off. It just creates traffic nightmares for both cars and other buses.
I'm tired of people saying things like "that's nothing a good rapid bus service couldn't fix", because it wouldn't fix anything. Streets like Finch are proof of that. I cannot wait until the LRT opens and those buses get off the road, for their own sake.
A bus is not the solution for everything, either. Ever tried to just simply drive on a street like Finch? There's usually 4-5 buses clumped together and they all have to make a stop at each stop because they're all packed and they all have someone pulling the string to get off. It just creates traffic nightmares for both cars and other buses.
A bus is not the solution for everything, either. Ever tried to just simply drive on a street like Finch? There's usually 4-5 buses clumped together and they all have to make a stop at each stop because they're all packed and they all have someone pulling the string to get off. It just creates traffic nightmares for both cars and other buses.
I'm tired of people saying things like "that's nothing a good rapid bus service couldn't fix", because it wouldn't fix anything. Streets like Finch are proof of that. I cannot wait until the LRT opens and those buses get off the road, for their own sake.