unimaginative2
Senior Member
Yeah, still not really warming up to the tunnel idea. Its expensive, claustrophobic, and transit-restrictive.
How many buses use the Gardiner for more than a kilometre? Put a transit lane on Lakeshore for Greyhounds and GO Buses (which will hopefully be replaced by improved rail service). Problem solved. And I don't think we should really plan infrastructure around certain individuals' claustrophobia. It is a little odd that you're uncomfortable in tunnels, yet you like subways...
Wouldn't you rather spend the money on a new subway/rail line? Maybe something in a Queensway, Queen St., Kingston Rd. alignment? That way I can save on $17 taxi rides across the city?
Uhh, well if you have a look at other threads, my views on transit expansion are pretty clear. I wouldn't put a subway on Queen, I'd put it on a more southerly alignment, but all of that's beside the point. It's a very Torontonian approach to dismiss every idea with "Well, that means some other great project couldn't happen." Who says that burying the Gardiner would mean no new downtown transit? Maybe we shouldn't have expanded the ROM or AGO, either, because that money could've been spent on a subway line. It's a completely false dichotomy.