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Food for thought for today:
Forgetting the "Relief" component of this subway towards the Yonge Line for a moment.... Would we need a Queen Street subway if we gave the King and Queen Streetcar their own transit lanes and removed cars from those downtown streets?
Yes. Despite everybody rushing to declare it a miracle on twitter to get likes and RTs, King streetcar is very very slow to be serving such large ridership. Cutting maybe 15 minutes out of a 50-minute commute does not erase the need for proper transit in one of the densest areas of Canada. Imagine it took 35 minutes instead of 10 from Bloor-Dufferin to Bloor-Yonge, just like it does today on King... There still needs to be a subway there, and preferably under King - not Queen.
(I wrote this post based on the current modifications in the pilot, as simply removing cars on these streets isn't realistic)
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