A Cosburn stop would mean almost everyone is within 4 blocks of the subway. But 4 blocks isn't good enough for you, so whatever...as long as people have "access" it doesn't matter how long their trips take, right?
Cosburn would still have an entrance to the subway, think Lawrence Stn stretched over 3 blocks to hit Dell Park. Adding in Mortimer only increases accessibilty, alleviates the 62, underground link to Centennial College (yes I feel as many campuses as possible should be linked if you're going to run a line in their backyard) and even hits the bottom of the Pape Village, the only reason you'd stop at Cosburn anyway.
500 metre spacing? Suburban bus routes usually average 300+ metre spacing...you're proposing 4 stops per concession?
If Keele, Jane and Weston are concession roads, then Carl Hall, Arleta and Oakdale are at half concessions. That sounds like two stops per concession to me.
Heck, it doesn't even need to be subway technology...it could be any kind of rail, perhaps coordinated with Peel Region stuff, VIVA, etc. I'm fine with ending Sheppard at Downsview, or maybe York.
I told you nowhere along Sheppard had to be a subway, certainly not a buried one. Stopping short at Downsview however loses connectivity for the northwest and Brampton. Maybe it's the optimist in me but I feel the longer subways are the more passengers will use it.
Why can't this person near Erin Mills slash time off their commute by taking a GO train that's apparently "good enough" for dense areas within the 416?
Wow, the Weston corridor is dense :lol ! Okay smartalic what if it were 11 a.m. and they took the bus from Erin Mills/Britannia?
What we're accustomed to is arriving at Finch every day and sighing "why doesn't the train go north of here?"
2 problems:How to regulate fare honouring?
How to handle traffic south of Lawrence?
For number two I feel it's easiest to run trains non-stop from Steeles to Bloor, with perhaps intermediate stops at Sheppard and Eglinton or Davisville (3rd track).
And it would take a rocket scientist to figure out how to fill two subways every day in Malvern.
And Old Mill, High Park, Christie, Castle Frank, Chester, Donlands, Greenwood, Ellesmere, Midland, McCowan, Summerhill, Rosedale, Museum, Spadina north, Glencairn, Bayview, Bessarion, Leslie, etc. Meanwhile Malvern has a major commercial zone flanked by a zillion low-income housing schemes with a toursit attraction, recreational camping/skiing ground and limitless developable land all around.
Ajax to Whitby is 7km...you mentioned subway-like spacings of less than 2km.
Every other length I mentioned was around 2 kms. The closest proximity between any stops I proposed was between Dupont Stn and Christie and there to Lansdowne-Runnymede-Scarlett which is over the core, hence is reflective of that. Studying the 26, Christie is the most heavily used non-subway stop and the others are well distributed so your complaint doesn't hold water!
why shouldn't we let the province improve the lines as much and as fast as possible before some degree of integration occurs? Meanwhile, every GO line could see all-day service before a single new km of TTC rapid transit is built.
In its own private ROWs perhaps, but competing with other systems for the same rail space unlikely. I'm yet to see any improvement. Where's the lines out to Hamilton/Niagara, Barrie/Orillia, Peterborough, Kitchener/Waterloo, Kingston?
why should this city spend billions of dollars on it when it possibly means delaying routes like Don Mills or Queen? Or if it means delaying bus replacement (something you're suddenly concerned with). The whole Dundas corridor may see massive growth, which would encourage a subway, but MCC may stall and see shrinking populations and a loss of jobs in 20 years, which would mean a subway would be useless...it's just too unpredictable right now.
Hey, you don't have to convince me! I'm the only one who defended a Queen subway through the downtown core first and foremost while seemingly the majority of posters accosted me over rejecting the suburban bound DRL and lines to MCC, VCC and Markville Mall (that was
your idea). Subways to Long Branch/Sherway/Renforth would be just as good as a singular MCC line. Even to a hub close to Toronto like Westwood would be better than running it all the way to Hurontario.
When they extended the Spadina line north of Wilson, it stopped at Downsview, inexplicably not continuing on to York, the only thing north of Wilson. Kipling to Square One would be 10 or 11 new kilometres of subway...it's not exactly a sure thing.
Or maybe they just ran out of money
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Most of them are minor and are based on what people said here but I also added a few stations and streetcar lines and fixed some other stuff.
One thing Doady, why doesn't the Queen line go further than Ronchesvalles? South Etobicoke is dense and deserves connection. Also since DRL goes up Pape, why couldn't Queen head to VP. Even to Wineva is better than ending at Coxwell.
