Dan416
Senior Member
The whole idea that LRT will Avenuize these streets is frankly ridiculous. I strongly believe in stopping the Sheppard East LRT. I think it's just such a stupid thing to do it's beyond belief.
Why not just build Sheppard subway to Finch West (interline with Spadina extension?), it would be much faster for anyone going east of Don Mills.
Back to this photo...
...it's incredible to think that those two ultra-modern storefronts on the left *still exist*.
Whoaccio, what city is that in the photo on the right? I'm in love with it....it reminds me of Vancouver on steroids. Lovely.
Umm... you must have a high resolution monitor because mine displays the two pics one on top of the other. The one with the satan-rail is Tokyo while the one with the road bridge is Seoul and the Han River. Both pictures are from Wikimedia.
Subway to Richmond hill next to a go station good...
Subway to Scarborough...bad
How weird...
The problem with this picture is that we don’t think like a big city. Isn't it time that we behave like the third transit company in North America???
North York Center connected to Scarborough Centre is just basic common sense...
With the Spadina extension to York university...Sheppard to downsview not a priority??? Are you kidding???
While I see everyone's argument for a subway, and I believe it is valid, I would rather see a GO route or some other form of transit that could take people straight from STC to North York, while bypassing the expense of an underground rail line which, for now at least, is not needed for the space in between. There is a reasonable amount of development on Sheppard, but I'd say unless the City can assure some major development across the whole subway route, a LRT could solve transit issues on Sheppard. If what the TTC is predicting for their LRTs is anywhere close to reality, I believe the system will work successfully.
The Sheppard LRT will have signal priority no doubt, so change that 2 km/h more to around 10, and I think the idea that the line will be over capacity is absurd.What problem is solved by spending the better part of a billion dollars on a transit line that will stop at red lights and travel maybe 2km/hr faster than existing buses (and who knows what the frequency will be...)? The problem of not having enough light rail?
The purpose of transit along the corridor is not to take people straight from Yonge Street to STC, it's to serve the hundreds of thousands of people and jobs along the way. The subway already exists...