Red October
Senior Member
One thing I would love to see (though it never will with this city's political climate), is to make Toronto's system more radial as opposed to sticking with the grid. It makes sense for what has been built so far to work with the grid, since that's the city's overall built form, but this leads to lines getting way too much pressure put on them (as seen on the YUS and B-D lines). The DRL is a start, but a way to make the city even more widely serviced is to add NW and NE lines in addition to the current N-S, E-W ones.
Union is too jam packed already, and even this current renovation has been a huge mess, but a line going out of downtown and making stops through the Fashion District, Trinity-Bellwoods, Little Italy, Bloordale Village, the Junction, then following either Weston Rd. or Black Creek up would have a huge impact on moving around the city. On the other end you have one heading out of downtown and going through St. Lawrence, Moss Park, Regent Park, Cabbagetown, Riverdale/Danforth, and following Don Mills northwards.
While I'm at it having a "ring" line around the city would make it look more complete, connecting the DRL with Mimico, then up following Kipling through Rexdale to connect with the NW line I descriped and the Spadina line at York University, build the Finch LRT to the Yonge Line, then the Sheppard line can act as a connector to the NE/Don Mills line (I think a Don Mills and Sheppard terminus/connector) makes sense, and finally follow Sheppard to connect with the Scarborough line and DRL east.
I'll add the disclaimer that this is a complete pipe dream, but man would that catapult Toronto into another tier of rapid transit system.
Union is too jam packed already, and even this current renovation has been a huge mess, but a line going out of downtown and making stops through the Fashion District, Trinity-Bellwoods, Little Italy, Bloordale Village, the Junction, then following either Weston Rd. or Black Creek up would have a huge impact on moving around the city. On the other end you have one heading out of downtown and going through St. Lawrence, Moss Park, Regent Park, Cabbagetown, Riverdale/Danforth, and following Don Mills northwards.
While I'm at it having a "ring" line around the city would make it look more complete, connecting the DRL with Mimico, then up following Kipling through Rexdale to connect with the NW line I descriped and the Spadina line at York University, build the Finch LRT to the Yonge Line, then the Sheppard line can act as a connector to the NE/Don Mills line (I think a Don Mills and Sheppard terminus/connector) makes sense, and finally follow Sheppard to connect with the Scarborough line and DRL east.
I'll add the disclaimer that this is a complete pipe dream, but man would that catapult Toronto into another tier of rapid transit system.