JayBeeGooner
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I hope a reporter asks him how subways will reduce congestion on the DVP and 401.
I hope a reporter asks him how subways will reduce congestion on the DVP and 401.
A revamped provincial transit agency should be put in charge of planning and operation of
what will become a truly regional system that moves people faster and more efficiently. This
requires transferring operations of TTC subways and LRTs to GO Transit, and uploading
major highways in the GTA and Ottawa region
So the subway will only go to STC. Just like I though. 3.3 billion was too much and Hudak will cut it.
We support a full, effective subway system for Scarborough – including the Bloor-Danforth extension,burying the Eglinton Crosstown as much as possible and extending the Sheppard subway stump to Scarborough City Centre
Answer: It wont.
They are right to upload them, but wrong in the way they are doing it IMO.
neither will LRT
They should take either all of the TTC or none of it. They can't cherry pick the profitable parts and leave the unprofitable parts of the business to the municipalities. If they did that we'd almost certainly see municipal tax rates rise or a huge drop in service quality.
They should take either all of the TTC or none of it. They can't cherry pick the profitable parts and leave the unprofitable parts of the business to the municipalities. If they did that we'd almost certainly see municipal tax rates rise or a huge drop in service quality.
Why does he want to do this? This would be a disaster. IIRC the subway routes are profitable. The surface routes (especially suburban) aren't. And of course I doubt the PCs plan to make up this loss of revenue with additional funding.
The Scarborough LRT from Transit City is described as:
They could make the case for the Bloor Scarborough extension without using misleading false statements.
I'm glad that Hudak does NOT want to cancel the Eglinton Crosstown. Although "buried as much as possible" could mean fill in the tunnel again I suppose![]()
Take Scarborough as an example. After years of insisting that Scarborough only needed a street-level, light rail transit line, the current government suddenly championed a subway plan to win a summer byelection
Okay? I never claimed that it did.
Two things:
1. All these new transit projects probably won't be reducing overall congestion. At best it will maintain current congestion levels, since the region is growing.
2. Reducing traffic on 401 is far beyond the scope of any subway, LRT or other rapid transit projects. People on the 401 are coming from long distances that go far beyond the reach of our rapid transit.
a post I made on reddit about this:
Hudak's cornerstone example of land to sell off is the LCBO lands.. You would think Hudak would do his research and realize that the land sold a year ago, and that it is probably the most valuable land the province owns that can be sold off (queens park is probably worth more but you can't exactly go and sell that), and it sold for $200 million. I struggle to see how he could sell $2 billion worth of land in a single year, yet alone for 15 years in a row. Thats not feasible, there simply isn't a market for it, nor does the province have that amount of land to sell. You may be able to liquidate $1 billion or so worth, but that only gets you 1/7th of the way there to the DRL. Come back when you have a real plan please.
I hope a reporter asks him how subways will reduce congestion on the DVP and 401.
We support a full, effective subway system for Scarborough – including the Bloor-Danforth extension,burying the Eglinton Crosstown as much as possible and extending the Sheppard subway stump to Scarborough City Centre