Who ever designed Kennedy station was surely unqualified, incompetent or on crack.
Second. I commuted out of Scarborough for about a year, the thing I hated the most about the SRT were the transfers at Kennedy and Scarborough Center. Requiring passengers to walk up 3-4 flights of stairs to make the connection makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.
Though I was doing some thinking, and maybe the transfer isn't why people loath the SRT so much. The entire line screams "second class citizen!" The depressing scenery and stations, the perimeter seating, the funky smell at McCowan from the recycling plant, etc. The transfers do suck, but it isn't exactly a smooth connection between the subway and York University Rocket at Downsview station, so why do I not mind that transfer compared to the SRT (granted I've never done the Downsview connection on a regular basis)? Maybe because one is a well designed bus line while the other is a poorly designed rail line.
Then we should put streetcars everywhere...
That will definately solve transit problems and gridlock in this city...
Not once you brought up the fact that I was willing to compromise for LRT on Sheppard if it was rapid transit.
Miller advertized it as such, then we realized it wasn't...
Did you advocate to make SELRT faster with those proposals (longer stop spacing with parallele bus service and route to STC)
Or did you just want it as is because Miller said so?
With that, SELRT was still not the best solution but a compromise acceptable to alot of people, me included.
Just like yourself, Miller and his gang wouldn't hear and people got fed up with the attitude.
SELRT is dead because people wouldn't compromise...TTC wouldn't compromise.
They refused to run a local bus service, which led people to ask for a stop pacing of 400m. For the rest, they didn't care...AT ALL
I was against SELRT because it was not going to STC and was not rapid transit.
Did you advocate for these 2 compromise? So far I haven't seen it.
Second, again! I was 100% for the SELRT... until I saw the stop spacing. It was a billion dollars to put the bus on rails, nothing more! You could technically already just space out the stops to 400m on the current bus route, and even all bus routes (400m is about a 5 minute walk), and accomplish similar performance results. Build a bus lane and off-board payment on Sheppard and you could have the route completed for less than a third of the cost of the Sheppard "tramway."
But with all the debate about saving Transit City versus killing Transit City, why no fixing Transit City option? While I don't agree with Mr. Ford's stance that all transit should underground to make room for cars, we could easily remove about half the stops to create a very competitive light rapid transit line. Spending a billion dollars to build a rapid transit line is a steal, but spending a billion to pretty up what is already there imo is a waste.
EnviroTO said:
Are you kidding? The AMC theatre and big box stores at VCC is where the bulk of people boarding at STC are likely to be going.
How many people in Scarborough go to York University? And seeing as the outer suburbs is where a lot of the industrial jobs have gone, having a good transit link between Scarborough and Vaughan is not necessarily a bad idea.