Dan416
Senior Member
LRT might as well mean 'Light RAPID Transit,' with the way it is implemented when compared to its streetcar/tram light rail counterparts.
Uh what? That sentence doesn't make sense to me.
LRT might as well mean 'Light RAPID Transit,' with the way it is implemented when compared to its streetcar/tram light rail counterparts.
Downtown streets barely move at all during rush hour anyway. Reducing it to one lane will make little difference. People will use alternative routes.
LRT might as well mean 'Light RAPID Transit,' with the way it is implemented when compared to its streetcar/tram light rail counterparts.
I would agree that compared to the streetcars, Transit City LRT is rapid.
However, compared to other LRT around the world, Transit City is not rapid. If LRT stands for Light Rail Transit, then it is the vehicle that defines it and it could be as slow as a streetcar or fast as a comuter rail - depending on how it is implemented.
Beauty is all in the eye of the beholder. There are plenty of surface and elevated systems out there which I think look very sharp. This includes those done in a pre-modern 19th century era and style.
The saddest part in all of this is that Ford was unable to come out with a study which supported his views on Sheppard 100%. Even the oil industry has been able to produce scholarly papers which suggest climate change is a hoax, despite being brutally flawed. The closest we'be seen is the Gong paper, and even that suggests that the private sector would be unable to cover all of the costs.
Let me see ONE report which days that a Sheppard subway can be paid entirely by the public sector and will have massive transport benefits for the entire region, and we can talk about a subway expansion. Hell, if I don't care if it is flawed, I just want one.Ford wants a paper recommending his views, even I could put together something. It would be flawed and easily torn apart by anyone with a working brain cell, but I can do it.
I'd be very dubious of a company that claims it can be substantially cheaper than the current estimates.Just curious but do you think Mayor Ford might try to recruit international companies to come in and construct subway lines if they present cheaper construction rates than Canadian companies?
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But is the Sheppard LRT not suppose to eventually hook up to the Yonge subway? Perhaps they should start that point and go west out to Humber