So I decided to create a modified version of the map the INAT map I made about a month ago (
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/43869799/INAT GTA v4.jpg if you want to have a look at it). I made some display changes to it, as well as a few transit changes, but by and large it's pretty similar.
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https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/43869799/GTA System Map v5.jpg)
The biggest display change that I made to it was to ditch the 1x1 size in favour of a 2x1 size, which I think makes it easier to bring some sense of geographic accuracy into the map. The other change that I made is that I took a page from Boston's transit map, and displayed at-grade LRT/BRT stations as smaller dots only, instead of the larger dots with labels. This reduces the clutter substantially, and gives greater prominence to the grade-separated, primary rapid transit network.
Transit-wise, a few changes from the last map:
1) E31 now terminates at the 407 and Hurontario, instead of at Mt. Pleasant station. By doing this, it gives southern Brampton and northern Mississauga another GO REX option, instead of having to go up to the E4 or down to the E2/E21.
2) Pushed the E11 back to Oakville from Clarkson. Port Credit would make more sense as a terminus point from a network POV, but due to the site constraints, it would be hard to fit all of the required infrastructure into that site. Clarskson and Oakville is a much larger sites, but Oakville has the advantage of having the VIA connection (which may disappear under HSR), but that's also where it makes sense to place a station for the SOGO R1 and R2 trains, so having the E11 terminus in the same spot just makes sense.
3) Showed the Spadina and St. Clair LRTs on the map, since there isn't much difference between those routes and the proposed East Bayfront LRT, which I've shown on previous maps too.
4) Removed the Scarborough Subway because of redundancy. To boost service to STC, the E31 terminates there, while the E3 continues deeper into Scarborough and into northern Pickering. It could also potentially act as a rail connection to the Pickering Airport, if that ever ends up being built.
5) Because of the removal of the Scarborough Subway, the SELRT needed a connection to STC, which the L51 branch provides.
6) Eglinton LRT (L3) continues into Scarborough along the SMLRT alignment.
7) Removed the Yonge Subway extension because, like the Bloor-Danforth extension, I think it becomes redundant with 2 GO REX lines going to essentially the same place, more efficiently duplicating the same function. The North Yonge BRT runs from Newmarket to Finch now.
8) Woodbridge is now getting an E Line instead of an R Line, to balance it out and have 4 E lines using the DRL tunnel.
Thoughts?