News   Jul 19, 2024
Menkes' Maison 77 Clarendon Topped Off in South Hill
 596     0 
News   Jul 19, 2024
TTC's Next Big Step: Replacing Rick Leary
 2.8K     6 
News   Jul 19, 2024
Third Phase of Quad Residences Advances at York University
 898     2 

Sheppard Line 4 Subway Extension (Proposed)

BMO said:
This. If you're going to have the DRL, the B-D line, the Yonge line, the Spadina line ALL connecting at yonge, a cross-town sheppard subway would be quite a good piece of transit from a connectivity point of view. Having unnecessary disconnections between STC and Downsview just further isolates the line and condemns it to never gaining ridership.
Click to expand...
Exactly. Let's stop funneling people downtown. And make Scarborough be quiet once and for all. But where will he find the money?
 
Last edited:
denfromoakvillemilton said:
Based on what?
Click to expand...
Cost and priorities. GO, the DRL, and finishing Eglinton would eat up most available transit dollars for years, and I'd bet anything the Yonge extension would also go before Sheppard due to pressure from York Region.

Can't see Sheppard starting in that environment for at least another decade.
 
GenerationW said:
Cost and priorities. GO, the DRL, and finishing Eglinton would eat up most available transit dollars for years, and I'd bet anything the Yonge extension would also go before Sheppard due to pressure from York Region.

Can't see Sheppard starting in that environment for at least another decade.
Click to expand...

Haha at you thinking YR is more of a priority then Scarborough. They didn't even mention Yonge at the transit announcement last month. If he won't cancel Eglinton then that conversation is over and has nothing to do with this.
 
GenerationW said:
Cost and priorities. GO, the DRL, and finishing Eglinton would eat up most available transit dollars for years, and I'd bet anything the Yonge extension would also go before Sheppard due to pressure from York Region.
Click to expand...

You missed the SRT replacement which is a very high priority project out of necessity.
 
denfromoakvillemilton said:
Haha at you thinking YR is more of a priority then Scarborough. They didn't even mention Yonge at the transit announcement last month. If he won't cancel Eglinton then that conversation is over and has nothing to do with this.
Click to expand...
Has a lot to do with it. It's a shovel-ready project, it has wide support in York Region, and those seats could tip the balance of power in Hudak's favour. Conversely, there is limited support for a Sheppard subway extension in Toronto Council. Without that support, Hudak could easily just drop Sheppard from his agenda without any political fallout. And if he okayed the B-D extension, Scarborough would be covered.

Hudak couldn't take the P.R. hit of being part of a government that filled in another hole, so he had little choice but to back Eglinton. And just because Hudak made no mention of Yonge, it doesn't mean other options are automatically off the table. I suggest you not take everything a politician says literally.

rbt said:
You missed the SRT replacement which is a very high priority project out of necessity.
Click to expand...
I'm assuming a Hudak government would support the city's subway proposal. The city would be on the hook for any cost overruns, so it wouldn't be a budget-buster for the province.
 
GenerationW said:
Has a lot to do with it. It's a shovel-ready project, it has wide support in York Region, and those seats could tip the balance of power in Hudak's favour. Conversely, there is limited support for a Sheppard subway extension in Toronto Council. Without that support, Hudak could easily just drop Sheppard from his agenda without any political fallout. And if he okayed the B-D extension, Scarborough would be covered.

Hudak couldn't take the P.R. hit of being part of a government that filled in another hole, so he had little choice but to back Eglinton. And just because Hudak made no mention of Yonge, it doesn't mean other options are automatically off the table. I suggest you not take everything a politician says literally.

I'm assuming a Hudak government would support the city's subway proposal. The city would be on the hook for any cost overruns, so it wouldn't be a budget-buster for the province.
Click to expand...

I suggest you stop bringing RH up all the time. It seems like you want it done the way you talk about it. If they had all that influence RH would have started in 2010 but clearly Liberals had bigger priorities and Hudak will too, like building subways in TORONTO.

And why would Hudak support the city proposal when the provinces cost almost 2 billion less?
 
denfromoakvillemilton said:
I suggest you stop bringing RH up all the time. It seems like you want it done the way you talk about it. If they had all that influence RH would have started in 2010 but clearly Liberals had bigger priorities and Hudak will too, like building subways in TORONTO.

And why would Hudak support the city proposal when the provinces cost almost 2 billion less?
Click to expand...

It is not the province proposal but the Liberal proposal. But your point is correct, Hudak may choose the least expensive solution. That is why he would be smart to try grade-separating Eglinton - it keeps open his ability to save the $2B.
 
GenerationW said:
I'm assuming a Hudak government would support the city's subway proposal. The city would be on the hook for any cost overruns, so it wouldn't be a budget-buster for the province.
Click to expand...

With a 4-year term and a promise to spend $2B/year after the budget is balanced (2 years in), $1.8B is close to half the transit commitment.
 
You must log in or register to post here.

Back
Top