GO Transit: Construction Projects (Metrolinx, various)

[kaptrice]

But we don't (or seldom) put stops that close together on subway lines in the suburbs!

Where the land use demands it, we do; hence North York Centre.

I support adding stations where it makes sense. East Harbour, Concord, Confederation, Stock Yards station for the Milton line (which IMO would better serve the St. Clair street car), etc. As long as there's a decent amount of space between the stations, then I'm all for it.

But you guys understand what's going on here with this Lakeview station? Doug didn't agree to build this station because he cared about offering transit to the people in this neighbourhood. His developer buddies want to use the tax payers to fund a GO station to be constructed in this area so they can mark up the homes in this new master planned community on Lakeshore.

Until that day that urban NIMBY is vanquished, substantial housing production in Toronto will depend heavily on TOD sites like these. Would you rather this site not have good access to rapid transit, and instead contribute however thousand more autos a day onto the roads? It reminds me of the arguments about the routing of the YNSE.

 

[nfitz]

Where the land use demands it, we do; hence North York Centre.

Which is why I said seldom.

I'm not even sure that North York Centre is the suburbs these days. The spacing WAS every 2 km there when it was the suburbs. I hadn't walked along far along Yonge there in decades, until recently. Even then (35 years ago), you could see that there was big change going on. It's very urban these days.

 

[kaptrice]

Doing a bit of spot-checking. The average station distance for REM is 4.2 km, not (about) 2.6 km. That does put that graph into question. (though I suspect that the general trends are correct).

The REM's initial segment is 16.6km with 5 stations, so 3.2km. The error, I believe, is that the unbuilt Griffintown station's been included, with which you'd have 2.75.

Which is why I said seldom.

I'm not even sure that North York Centre is the suburbs these days. The spacing WAS every 2 km there when it was the suburbs. I hadn't walked along far along Yonge there in decades, until recently. Even then (35 years ago), you could see that there was big change going on. It's very urban these days.

So it'd be with new suburban TOD sites. They probably won't have anything like the employment density in NYCC, being primarily residential, but urbanisation and transit access are going hand in hand here.