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Why it hasn't been implemented.. no idea!
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Why it hasn't been implemented.. no idea!
Politics aside, Rocco Rossi did have an excellent idea that could be implemented right away... Not sure why there hasn't gotten any traction:
Turn the existing GO line from Main St. to Union to Dundas west to a 'DRL'. Minimal costs as the infrsstructure already exists, would just need to build a few outdoor platforms along the way.
Why it hasn't been implemented.. no idea!
Which is why I think Queen or King makes the most sense, and the notion of running it through the rail corridor, or treating it as an express line, won't work.
Of course King or Queen, or somewhere in between.
To spend billions building a subway yet let it be 90% empty outside the (limited) rush hours is stupid. Rush hour totals like 25 hours per week. Who the hell would take that line at 2pm, to do what? The "waterfront communities" should be fine having a streetcar, since Queens Quay is nowhere near as busy or important as Queen or King st.
???? Well, someone just outed themselves as someone whose never actually used transit in Toronto ... and perhaps has never been downtown without their parents ...Who the hell would take that line at 2pm, to do what?
???? Well, someone just outed themselves as someone whose never actually used transit in Toronto ... and perhaps has never been downtown without their parents ...
You have never been on a streetcar or Subway at 2 PM? In Toronto, it is busy. Standing room even then.
There could also be short subway bridges to relieve downtown such as a Bay line to have BD riders transfer onto it instead, as well as a Jarvis line. Also a line from Spadina through chinatown and then onto Dundas Square and up through Parliament to Castle Frank.
I was talking about Queen's Quay, not downtown.
Unless you think that land south of Front St is also downtown, or so called "south downtown".
I meant if the DRL runs on anywhere south of the rail lines, it will be empty except during rush hours.
the DRL cannot just run in an area where it is used for people to go and return from work and then no one uses it throughout the day or evening for anything else basically.
Which is why I think Queen or King makes the most sense, and the notion of running it through the rail corridor, or treating it as an express line, won't work.
Hang on ... you don't think Union Station is in downtown? You don't think the Rogers Centre is in downtown?Unless you think that land south of Front St is also downtown, or so called "south downtown".
Hang on ... you don't think Union Station is in downtown? You don't think the Rogers Centre is in downtown?
And you don't think that people use the streetcar on Queens Quay mid-day?
It's the same reason you probably don't even want to run it as far south as Union, as then most of the users are north, rather than south, and really you should be going down the middle.He said if you run the DRL south of Union it would be empty. That theory has some credence because the majority of downtown Toronto is north of Union and south of Bloor!