Inkarnate
Active Member
Wellington please.
Under this scenario, if people wanted an express trip, why wouldn't they just take a GO EMU RER-style service?
The part about "others believe that above ground transit will be a eye sore and ruin potential neighbourhoods" I don't believe unless it looked like GO. I do not think the streetcar running down St. Clair ruins it at all (a bus would). The same thing can be said of Queen St and King St and College St.
There seems to be a lot of discussion around the DRL as an express line, as if the problem with YUS is the time trips take, rather than the lack of capacity. As I understood it, the "relief" the DRL is supposed to provide is in terms of reducing passengers on the currently crowded lines and stations, and not primarily to make some trips faster.
Sure, but consider someone coming from the east to Union -- their option would be Bloor-Danforth from Pape to BY, and then south, or DRL south from Pape. The current route involves 11 stops, including a changeover at BY. For the DRL, there wouldn't be the need to such close spacing on the north-south stretch as there is on the downtown Yonge line, and spacing on Queen could be roughly similar to BD. In other words, you'd probably have fewer stops with the same distance anyway, and thus be faster without having to make in an actual express line with express line station spacing.I'm not saying it has to be express (and I don't think it should be), just that speed is indeed a factor in relief, along with capacity.
I don't get it, what was wrong with this plan?
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2135/2411960022_33380eba17.jpg
Is it because of the EA? Budget?