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Sorry, Bill Gates is off donating computers to schools in countries that don't have electricity.
You've obviously never been there, but try looking at Google Maps. It's lined with a number of apartment buildings and townhouses.
You don't think that the TTC could introduce smart cards in an imaginary world with tens of billions to build subways?
Traffic south of Lawrence is easy: Build a Relief Line along Don Mills.
What you don't seem to understand is that those stations are all on the way to major destinations. Malvern would be about as busy as one of those, but it's the final destination for two subway lines in your plan.
Do you really think people are going to take the subway to go camping?
You want to replace GO lines with subways? Well,
A three store plaza and 12 townhouses do not constitute "malls and condos."
One day you'll visit these areas, instead of just looking at them on maps, and you'll learn so much.
you only mentioned it after I prodded you a dozen times about how useless it was.
That's a terrible idea. But, of course, it serves "thousands"...routes that serve "tens of thousands" are dismissed by you as unnecessitious.
Huh? Route reliability goes down the toilet when route length increases.
Talk about overselling a route! The big condo cluster would be within walking distance of a Queen alignment. Coincidentally, Sherway would be, too. Everything else (there's not much else) would be like 5 minutes away on a bus/streetcar. A Queen alignment could go into Mississauga, while the Bloor line could go to the airport, letting the Weston line go to Rexdale...it has a certain natural logic, but it's just something to think about.
What nodes?!? Port Credit is the only one.
OK, that's just stupid...not to mention ridiculously long.
That's been answered.
Look at a satellite map of Cosburn and rethink that one.
you suggested 500 metre spacing for GO lines. You haven't gotten the knack of the metric system yet, have you?
GO lines are their own private space...the TTC can't just start building in GO corridors. What does rail to Kginston have to do with the TTC?
Yeah, sure.
You plan would probably cost $100 billion.
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Doesn't it not benefit out-of-towners to have the inner 416 stops obceleted? Doing so would eliminate the need for subways to the suburbs cause then you really couldn't compare the two transit modes for speed. Remember even when people get off at a 416 stop they're still at the TTC's mercy to get home, meaning waits up to 10-20 mins at an outdoor GO stop in the dead heat of winter. That sounds enjoyable ! Using the subway instead abolishes those wait times, hence it may in fact be much quicker and safer too.
Okay first it's Kingston
Okay first it's Kingston
Deterring thousands from where they want to be: Yonge St.
The true answer would be you're bias towards Finch cause it's near where you live.
Cosburn and Pape? Are you serious?
The south routes (run from BD southwards only) are very unreliable in service in contrast to northern, longer routes
Bloor to Pearson would involve following the Hwy 427/Renforth alignment, a line you laughed at me over.
Where'd you get 500m from?
seceondly you said we should wait and see what GO's doing before we plan out where to build subways when in fact today's system is less than it was in the past. GO and GO alone (I never suggested putting in GO corridors, you did with your insufferable DRL plans) would service these places. If Kingston's too far east, how about Port Hope or Coulburg? Oshawa can't be it.
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Wait, wait, wait. Let me get this straight. You are actually trying to correct someone's typo of Kingston? If you had any idea how many spelling errors, grammar errors, and hilarious made-up words there are in every line of your posts...
Says who? Why must a subway line slavishly follow a road? When you're tunnelling, you can go pretty much anywhere. It's worth exploring every option...they can always be rejected later, but ignoring the possibilities is an act of criminal negligence.
I said going up Scarlett was one option, not that it should be done. The line could go west along Eglinton until Weston, then north west to Dixon, then west to the airport. Weston may be "denser," but since it's only a few hundred metres away from Scarlett, that doesn't mean anything.
There's hardly anything along Eglinton that can be Avenueized...the designation doesn't carry much weight here. There's absolutely no reason Dixon can't receive the same designation. Redevelopment is just a bonus, anyway - most Eglinton subway patrons will arrive by bus, and by running along Dixon, you bring the subway closer to them. It also doesn't preclude the precious busway from being run straight across Eglinton inside the 416.
The last thing Toronto needs is to have its transit lines determined by what the suburbs deem important.
Virtually the entire world is going to smart cards, not just for monthly passes, but for single fares too.
include the wonderful world of regional rail. Just because it isn't done in your experience in Toronto doesn't mean that it can't haven integrated fares. Hell, it can even be run by the same transit authority, believe it or not!
I must admit I wouldn't be worried too much about the "dead heat" of a Toronto winter, but it is possible, you know, to climate control regional rail stops.
Additionally, the TTC does an abysmal job of routing passengers to regional rail stations. If they were integrated, of course, the TTC would use them as focal points for bus routes just as they do with the subway.
If you had any idea how many spelling errors, grammar errors, and hilarious made-up words there are in every line of your posts...
The DRL goes to Yonge Street! It goes to the heart of the CBD.
I don't live in Rexdale and I'll never even use the Sheppard West line out there. By your standards, that makes me Christ-like.
Yes.
Here's one explanation: south = downtown, north = suburbs.
It certainly wouldn't go through Centennial Park...if the Bloor line was ever to have gone to the airport, it would have turned at Islington.
Rapid transit lines that stop every 500 metres wouldn't be exceptionally "rapid" now, would they?
If that's all you can come up with re: GO, your opinions on the subject are now worthless to me. Two words: Rouge Hill.