Emmet Avenue can go, but the other west end stations should stay. Remember, they still have to serve the locals if you like it or not. I'd say the LRT can skip these stops when nobody requests, but that may require standing at the next major intersection in order to maintain headways.
It's just not worth the investment nor fair to the much larger crowds awaiting further down the line. And we could still be serving the locals via the stop locations that I approved of. It's all a matter of
strategic stop locations and ways in which we can facilitate safe pedestrian crossings. Also consider the surrounding communities (midblocks through Richview are sparsely-populated and comprise primarily affluents whom drive themselves). So having to stop for the odd handful of customers daily turning out at the omitted stops isn't really worth it when designers can engineer it such that no one coming in from the midblock is more than 300m away from an arterial station stop.
Specifically in the case of Mulham Pl, an intersection doesn't even exist here yet, let alone a signaled one. So an otherwise stop-free section of the 32 bus would now take ~5 mins just to clear through Scarlett -> Mulham -> RY. Meanwhile a Scarlett Stn, centric to the westside of the intersection nets all of the high rise apartment dwellers that otherwise would feed into a Mulham stop, just requiring minimal effort on their part (transferring off from the 73B's even better for all the walk-a-phobics out there).
Merging Jane & Weston is also a horrible idea. They're both major transfer points.
What exactly's right at Jane & Eglinton worth serving pretell? The Jane LRT can veer off Jane's alignment north of Lambton/south of Pinehill Cr and navigate the outskirts of Eglinton Flats Park to enter a portal leading directly into the mezzanine level of a Mt Dennis Station beginning from Guestville Ave, one block west of Weston Rd. Jane LRT may not even be needed south of Eglinton, which I've heard may be tunneled most of way down to Bloor subway. Those funds could go elsewhere since a DRL extension to Mt Dennis in the future would negate its purpose. Meanwhile a newly realigned 35 Jane bus could operate in-between Bloor and Weston, taking over the Emmett looping of the by then
former 32D bus. As such, a midblock LRT stop at Emmett's unnecessary.
It's going to be sweet, there's not even 10 intersections between the tunnel and the airport. It's not as slow as the pessimists are making it out to be at all.
I hope you're right. However from having to serve all those midblocks at only 23km/h through mixed traffic to the wild, meandering routing west of Martin Grove that the planners are considering-- it may very well still take ~30 minutes from Mt Dennis to reach the airport (50 mins from Yonge-Eglinton). Beefed up transit signal priority, less stops, a more direct alignment west of MG and exclusivity of ROW could easily shave another 10 mins off such a commute.