Woodbridge_Heights
Senior Member
Realistically, a Sheppard subway extension is not in the cards for the immediate future regardless. You may be able to push the ridership numbers to show subway-level demand, but is there a good business case for extending the line? Is travel along Sheppard so bad right now that a subway extension is absolutely critical?
It's not really something any politician would want to pin his star too, given the line's troubled reputation. (And, yes yes, I know, it's got great ridership compared to Chicago! It would be better if it had been finished!) The Sheppard LRT is an attempt to provide higher order transit service along this corridor and move on to other, more pressing, transit needs in the city.
People talk about Transit City being a political plan that's motivated by things other than ridership needs, but it's got nothing on the Sheppard subway and Mel Lastman's "A Subway in North York!" campaign when it comes to political baggage.
So what you're saying is that travel along sheppard is not bad enough to justify a subway extension but just bad enough to justify an LRT route????
If you don't mind, where do you stand on the Vaughan and RH subway extensions.