Panzerfaust
Active Member
Ugh. I am currently compelled to write a letter to Adam Giambrone wondering what the hell, but at the same time I know that I'll just get blown off no matter what I write. I hate politics.
$1.28 Billion!!!
Your taxpayer's money at work! That's what you get when you hire the guy to fix the problematic line he helped to install in the first place, though.
It really should have been a subway.
Let's compare apples to apples. The earlier cost estimate for the subway was from Kennedy to STC. Surely much of the cost of the SRT rebuild/extension is the extension to Sheppard.
How much will just the rebuild of the existing cost versus subway. And how much will subway to Sheppard/Markham cost compared to the SRT.
(and in terms of why go to Sheppard/Markham - surely to spur on development! We've seen this occurring at Don Mills Station and Bessarion already).
Is there an online petition to have the SRT replaced with a subway to Scarborough Town Centre? If there is, we should all sign it. If there's not, we should make it, and have everyone we know sign it. I know an online petition isn't worth as much as a paper one, but still....now that we know how much this is going to COST, it's absolutely ridiculous to go through with the SRT replacement/extension.
It's just that we're comparing based on quality of service to actual riders, rather than abstract mileage and number of lines on a map. Replacing the RT with a subway would benefit hundreds of thousands more people than would benefit from the RT extension, and even the people who do benefit from an RT extension would benefit more from the subway.
Even if they extend the subway they'd still need to upgrade the current system first as it goes obscelete by 2015.
Malvern still deserves better than a phlethora of meandering bus routes.
No they are not. A subway extension to STC and conversion of the existing system are apples to apples.A subway extension to STC and an RT extension to Markham & Sheppard are both apples.
No it isn't. According to the documents the GTTA released last week, the renovation is $236 million. The extension to Sheppard and Markham is $680 million. Now what was that subway extension cost? It's about 6 km - so based on the current Spadina extension costs, you must be looking at at least $1.5 billion just to get to STC, not including vehicles. $1.5 billion or $236 million?The RT reno alone would ~$500 million.