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(this would still be an AM/PM peak-only service still dependant on filtering bus routes to connect outwards to nodes). ... not just a limited service during peak.
Sez who? No one would be advocating a dream of spending millions on diverting the Milton line through MCC for 6 round trips a day. The whole point would be to bring frequencies to every 20 minutes all day or better.
With a proper fare agreement, Mississauga Transit routes could rearrange to a hub-and-spoke system based around the GO line. Don't you find it absurd how many MT routes filter in to MCC terminal? Or how many filter into the subway at Islington/Kipling? Replacing all these trips with a high-capacity train could save Mississauga money on operating costs. Isn't it less than optimal that buses make long cross-city trips stopping at every local stop just to get people to the subway, for another slow local trip to their destinations? It's time for economies of scale for MT... and that means rail. If Mississauga really wants MCC to be a centre of high-density office activity it needs to be able to draw quality workers efficiently from a large field... and that means rail.
If you want another way of thinking about it, I'm saying that Mississauga deserves a cross-city subway line providing access to its biggest destinations (MCC, Meadowvale office park, Erin Mills mall and hospital). Only the subway should run express to downtown Toronto from Kipling (because the BD is both slow and already crowded and couldn't handle the extra demand).