amnesiajune
Senior Member
The mistake a lot of people are making is in seeing the subway as something people should be able to walk to. It's real purpose is a proper transit hub for northeast Scarborough - similar Eglinton, Finch, Downsview and Kipling/Islington (and Don Mills to a lesser extent). You can build a network of buses, BRT and LRT around Scarborough Centre.
Kennedy works if you're willing to dump the hub-and-spoke transit model that's used in North York and Etobicoke, but that still requires two very long LRT lines - one to Scarborough Centre and then north along McCowan or Markham, and another along Eglinton, Kingston Road and Morningside all the way to McNicoll. The proposed "25 stop LRT network" didn't do that - those two LRT lines would've ended at Sheppard and at UTSC.
Did you tell her that the alternative would cost almost as much and STC would be where most of its users got on and off?
Kennedy works if you're willing to dump the hub-and-spoke transit model that's used in North York and Etobicoke, but that still requires two very long LRT lines - one to Scarborough Centre and then north along McCowan or Markham, and another along Eglinton, Kingston Road and Morningside all the way to McNicoll. The proposed "25 stop LRT network" didn't do that - those two LRT lines would've ended at Sheppard and at UTSC.
Just recently I was talking to someone at UTSC who was excited about the subway extension that would replace the aging RT. I ask if she knows it's a one-stop extension to STC costing $3.4 Billion. She tells me she didn't know. She went from excited to bewildered and disappointed in seconds.
Did you tell her that the alternative would cost almost as much and STC would be where most of its users got on and off?