TheTigerMaster
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This is what I have been saying for ages.
Toronto is damn and determined to spend monstrous amounts of money on little stubs that won't make a hoot of difference in anyone's commute. While I understand what you are saying about using rail corridors as they often don't go to large population and employment centres, in Toronto's case it is necessary. Torontonians transit users have a longer commute than most cities of similar size due to the way it is laid out.
Toronto is built on a grid system and therefore getting from A to B requires going to C. The city doesn't have one street that is diagonal which makes trips much faster and more direct. This is the benefit of the GO rail system for example the Pearson route. If it followed a standard TTC route it would have to go straight west to via High Park and ten make a sharp north turn to head to Pearson..........a much longer and time consuming option.
The problem with the rail corridors in Toronto is that GO got their greasy hands on them and GO is strictly interested in service for the 905. GO doesn't acknowledge it's responsibilities to Torontonians themselves and has hence made the rail lines available to GO service only and the citizens who's city it runs thru be damned.
I suppose your rhetoric is nice, but we need to look at these things rationally. Where are there rail corridors in the city that would be at least as effective as other modes? I can't think of very many.
Furthermore, Toronto has been utilizing available corridors relatively well. A huge part of the Spadina Subway runs in one (admittedly it's not a rail corridor, but the distinction is irrelevant). And does a huge portion the Bloor-Danforth subway.