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Sherway being served by VIVA, Brampton and Oakville Transit? 101/201 serving both Kipling and Sherway at the same time? East Mall surrounded by huge greyfields, yet no place for a bus terminal? What more needs to be said?
I'm not saying that you couldn't put a terminal there, but it would be physically much smaller than what is capable at Sherway without mass expropriations. Why bother to go through all that trouble when you have a prepaved, desolote corner of the mall property that I'm certain Cadillac Fairview would not mind getting off their hands? Sherway is a destination, already, as in people actually want to go there. It is proximal to the Lakeshore so buses at Lakeshore can feed into it, saving their passengers time and money from not transferring. It is very proximal to downtown Toronto. If I can't afford the GO train but can't tolerate 40 minutes on the subway with transferring, there should be an express bus service for my kind of clientele. Queensway should be a BRT route and thereafter link to the Gardiner for a non-stop run to Union. Queensway West should also have bus lanes to Dixie Outlet and therefter continue northwards as Dixie BRT straight into Bramalea City Centre. My ideas are revolutionary, because I'm actually taking the time out to analyze where the bus passengers are going to and how best to accomodate their needs. The TTC are acting like a bunch of thugs running a drug cartel. They don't care about their customer base and yet feel justified in jacking up the fares every minute. They only care about their bottom line and sadly you've fallen for it. And no, I don't see any problem with Brampton Transit, Oakville Transit and York Region Transit operating a few AM/PM Rush Hour routes into Sherway to meet with the west end of the line. Keyword: Interregional.
If you're planning on transforming Etobicoke Centre-Six Points into the next vibrant, pedestrian friendly, landscaped downtown core as you profess; why on earth would you want a parade of smelly, smoggy, noisy buses clogging up your arteries and making them less safe and less appetizing to visitors and residents alike? Wouldn't you want the transit ROWs hidden away from view as much as possible? Don't you want a Dundas LRT line, isn't that more attractive? Wouldn't it generate more business and truly provide the LRT with a function through Etobicoke? If I'm heading to Dundas-Hurontario or to points west of there, neither the Dundas LRT nor Kipling Stn is of any use to me. What would be faster and more direct is to go to Sherway. If you hadn't noticed, the entire street grid of the City of Mississauga is at a diagonal to Toronto's; ergo if you pop up your rulers and measure the distances, you'll find that Sherway is geographically closer to Cooksville. If you're planning on running LRT from ECC to Cooksville (or MCC?) then it becomes highly redundant to have all services that cater to Dundas start from that point. If the 101 and 201 can get to the subway in less time using Dixie and Queensway, better to do that.
"Better to spread out where people are boarding the subway from than to have everyone scramble on in the one location. "
Then why this obsession with a huge regional terminal at Sherway of all places?
Isn't this one self-expalnatory? I just said and you quoted me that we are to spread out where the people go. We can have MT routes serve all four of Islington, Kipling, East Mall and Sherway Gdns. Heck, they do that today. But where there is time adavantages to using Sherway, we use it. For the Erin Mills, Meadowvale, ACC and Malton bound routes a stop location as close to the highway as possible is needed. Again East Mall's location should be nowhere near the East Mall. If it is not at Honeydale, it's not really serving the walk-in community. We're not building these lines for the sake of Mississauga Transit in isolation, the subway must be of local value as well. And Honeydale's even donating land in exchange for a stop there! It's creating out-of-the-way Kipling 2.0. to use the East Mall, except unlike Kipling or Sherway it'd truly be in the middle of nowhere. Your saying that it's not going to stay like that means nothing. I believe that Sheppard West won't always be parkland but still have the common sense to know that it'll have less daily usage than Chester for a long, long time to come.
"Kipling is not a destination anyway."
Yes, it only happens to be located within an Urban Growth Centre proposed for over 400 jobs/people per hectare, served by the GO Train, and have a connection with the future Dundas BRT/LRT.
Why are we so stuck on, and forgive me for using your post as a segue into philosophizing, planning ahead for things that could be and not taking care of the communities that we already have? If Sherway is cut-off and isolated, then your answer is to keep it that way perpetually? What of Alderwood or Applewood or Long Branch or Lakeshore Vlg? What of commuters from Brampton and Oakville who have to spend upto 2 hours a day commuting from those cities to the downtown? Yes, there's a GO Stn at Kipling and I even had a part-time job at a call centre nearby the subway there when I was a teenager. But that does not make it any more of a hospitable destination than Sherway. In truth, the GO Station should be relocated to Islington as there is the true epicentre of this UGC and the train-to-subway connection would be far more simplistic. Kipling's a wasteland and no amount of superfluous pork investment will transform it into anything other than a "just-passing-through" section of the city for the vast majority of transit users.