I don't know if there is a thread for the Pan Am Games, but not only are we not seeing any plans to enhance TTC routes by the next election, I don't see any lasting City transport infrastructure projects by 2015.
When Ford announced his Sheppard plan, didn't anybody ask whether Ford had promised Sheppard would be ready by Pan Am? Oops, I guess it doesn't really matter.
Now, in the benefit-of-the-doubt department, Ford did have a series of transport planks to his platform including filling missing links in the road network. Is the Public Works and Infrastructure Committee working on implementing these, and will there be anything like a updated city-wide transport plan that could go out for stakeholder input?
I can't see a lot happening, considering the budget hole -- along with promises to decrease the backlog of road reconstruction work.
Sigh again.
As for a
Finch "Express" in mixed traffic... if that would do the trick, TTC planners would have done it already. We're talking about a need for serious, marked improvement in trip times and reliability here (and along any other route that is subject to increasing congestion effects). I think Christopher Hume
reported the Finch West route handles 15 million trips a year. The Spadina extension might eventually boost that?
-ed d.