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Because the terminal (temporarily) would be near Progress and Sheppherd. This would alleviate all the congested travel over the 401 to Scarborough Centre - almost 4 kilometres away.
Okay. If you're talking about traffic along McCowan into STC, hardly any of that originates from Malvern. Heck, hardly any of that is 416 residents.
The traffic along Progress (the road which most Malvernites take) is bearable during rush hour).
A terminal at Progress and Sheppard does nothing at all for the crazy amount of traffic along Markham and McCowan. I will bet money on that. And it really isn't needed to relieve traffic on Progress. So I'm still confused how you think a terminal that's not close to any of the actually congested corridors will provide relief.
It would be a huge time-savings.
Huge is relative. But yes there would have been lots of time savings till STC. 8-10 mins I believe? Saving the transfer at Kennedy though actually comes close to saving half that amount. Anybody bound for downtown will now simply stay on the Crosstown rather than disembark at Kennedy. And now that the whole thing is a subway....
Overall, guess what would save more time than all this? A GO Crosstown.
Also this was only Phase 1. In Phase 2, it would then be extended to Malvern Town Centre.
I remember being in elementary school when they talked about extending the SRT to Malvern. Every Scarborough resident knows not to trust transit promises until there's trains pulling into a station.
In the 20 years that would have passed between phase 1 and phase 2, Malvern would have been blessed with messed up bus network to an improperly placed terminus.