Woodbridge_Heights
Senior Member
If memory serves me correctly, the busiest stretch of Eglinton is actually the stretch east of Kennedy station, which complicates the wisdom of spending a fortune on the central stretch and throwing a few bones to the east and west.
Than shouldn't we be looking at ways of improving transit for that part of Eglinton east and feeding into the pre existing Kennedy subway station. What purpose would an Eglinton crosstown LRT serve to those residents who want to head downtown?
[/QUOTE]Unlikely. There's no way the city would have suddenly rewritten its transit plans and created an astronomically unaffordable LRT scheme without some basic assurances from upper levels of government that some quantity of funding was on its way. That's why it was a surprise to almost everybody and why it was first presented with no detail...it was still lines on a napkin. If Miller wasn't told to draft up a wishlist, the funding would have gone towards existing transit plans like the stuff in the RGS and the RTES...and then we could be getting more actual rapid transit and much more local service improvements (instead of a pretty lame Bus City plan).
I don't remember hearing anything like that, now maybe there was some quiet private talks re Toronto coming up with a transit plan and the province helping with funding and maybe there was discussion about what range the provice would be willing to put in. Still the technology choice was made by the city/TTC was a purely philisophical/political choice not a budgetary consideration. It seems to me that they could have come up with an $18 million all subway plan and the province would have still payed in. That's all I mean. Those defending the TTC and the city say there wasn't enough money to build a subway and yet we are spending subway like dollars for a less than subway project.