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Undying42
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I would like to know this too. I can't see much benefit at all in an extension to Sherway, given how it's just a big mall and big box sprawl. Heh, bit of unintentional poetry there.
I've always thought a westward extension to West Mall and Dundas would be a lot more useful. It could have an intermediate stop at the Cloverdale Mall, since everyone seems obsessed with serving suburban malls, and possibly at Shorncliffe as well.
Thoughts?
I couldn't imagine the extension not including Sherway. Shorncliffe, in the same geographic grid as Martin Grove is a logical spot to put a station. Follwing the rail corridor west of Kipling, you can clearly see that an elevated station could fit in right between Dundas and the train tracks. Western exits would provide access to Honeydale Mall, which may be absorbed into the Cloverdale complex eventually anyway.
From there the line could veer southwest and optionally have a stop at the intersection of North Queen and East Mall. Not much to look at now, but has tons of vacant or dying industrial lands ripe for mass-development. It's not a very long walk from the north end of the big-box strip on North Queen which includes Walmart and BestBuy.
Then the Sherway Gdns stop, with a mass terminal on the Mississauga border, just north of Trillium Hosp. The easternmost exits would lead directly into the mall (a la Queen north exits). Worry over routes as far north as Burnhamthrope getting down here are appeased by the 427 and private bus-only lanes that tunnel underneath the mall to the subway terminal.
A massive plan I know, but if the TTC weren't being misers this option would be the most beneficial to the greater number of people.
Is anyone in Brampton really going to sit on a bus for an hour and then sit on the subway for 45 minutes when an improved GO network could do the same trip in less than half the time?
That's their reality now. $6.40 one way isn't something the avarage citizen can afford everytime they want to go into Toronto. Sometimes $4.50 with tickets will have to do, even if it's longer and less direct.
Why not branch the subway. Half the trains going to Sherway (and perhaps one day to Port Credit), and the other half running to MCC or Pearson.
Interlining? If Eglinton is built as a subway to Pearson we'd only need improved frequency on the 192 bus. Also make them articulated to hold more passengers per trip.