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andomano52
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I wonder if the TTC is going to go el cheapo on us again and leave us with bare concrete walls alike in the Shepperd subway?
Re: Eglinton West ridership - don't forget to subtract riders going between the Allen and Yonge, since that stretch wouldn't have gotten a subway...
East or west? I don't think ~$1B will get it to STC, but it would get it over to Downsview. Unless he means "finish it" with streetcars...
we can always turn down the provincial and federal money, and add... for a Danforth line extension to STC, an extension that will have more riders than the York extension.
I don't think finishing it westward was seriously in the cards
I do agree that Sheppard should be completed, but why haven't we heard a peep from the city about that project until now? The only project with an EA is York U. They don't discuss Sheppard East at all
both the Feds and the province should stop pulling the financial string and butt out of using transit as a pre-election goody.
In the relatively impartial Network 2011 study, Eglinton West was said to not even be busy enough for a light rail line. It was supposed to be a busway. Suddenly, it was upgraded to a subway line, coincidentally when local MPP Bob Rae was elected premier.
Re: Eglinton West ridership - don't forget to subtract riders going between the Allen and Yonge, since that stretch wouldn't have gotten a subway...
I wonder if the TTC is going to go el cheapo on us again and leave us with bare concrete walls alike in the Shepperd subway?
There is one aspect of the new subway that I find quite ridiculous: Sheppard West station. That thing is going to make Bessarion look like Finch.
You can't expect GO to use the Highway 7 transitway or VIVA to use Highway 407 transitway, it just wouldn't work.
Of course, the difference I guess is that one route is local and one express. I'm sure that travel times on the GO route will be very quick, while the Highway 7 route will be quite slow.
It's a simple fact that the province and feds will only fund projects that the TTC offers them. The only project that the TTC has studied up to this point is a York subway. Even this vague web of streetcars has seen no serious study other than a map in the official plan. I don't think Sheppard East has even been discussed by any city councillor up to this point.
I wonder if the TTC is going to go el cheapo on us again and leave us with bare concrete walls alike in the Shepperd subway?