innsertnamehere
Superstar
Just petty bitching from the Weston area residents.
I think one of the primary concerns they have is that all the disruption and noise they are having to go thru would be a lot easier to take if this was a transport line that they could actually use. People will bite their tongue and put up with delays in construction for public transit projects because they can at least see the long term benefits. The problem is that this is not a public transit project but a Bay Street express.
Toronto is probably the only city on the planet that is building a diesel train to it's airport as a fast link BEFORE they actually provide mass/rapid transit for the masses of regular travellers and thousands of workers who have to get their everyday. If the people were allowed to use their TTC pass to ride the train to the airport or downtown {ie built as a subway/LRT} then I don't think you would be getting this kind of petty bitching.
there are plenty of cities that run with premium services to the airport only. Newark in New York is one that comes to mind.
If only there were a rail corridor near by, lightly used most of the day, that could be used to haul away this bulk material.
quite difficult to haul away material when you are just hauling it to another part of the construction site. and what do you expect them to do, build a temporary paved road for the hundreds of trucks to use? and they must eventually exit anyways, so all you will be doing is dumping westons problems on some other unwilling neighborhood.
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