Dan416
Senior Member
I highly doubt the Dundas LRT and Hurontario LRTs are going to be interlined (assuming either are even built). You don't see Yonge and Bloor interlined do you?
I highly doubt the Dundas LRT and Hurontario LRTs are going to be interlined (assuming either are even built). You don't see Yonge and Bloor interlined do you?
Dundas LRT west of Hurontario would be a waste of money. Interlining it with Hurontario LRT and serving MCC makes sense. Dundas is the one of two suitable corridors for subway in Mississauga. The other is Hurontario. But if both Hurontario and Dundas get LRT, there will be no more need for subway.
Neither the Hurontario or Dundas LRT solve the problem of express connections between MCC, Airport, UTM, let alone beyond Mississauga, so I don't see how the Mississauga Transitway can be "decommissioned." Besides, the transitway will serve regional express connections far better than any subway extension.
I think there'll definitely be ridership west of Sherway. The next stop west is Dixie, which would be served by the 5, next stop Tomken, served by 51, then Cawthra, served by 8, and Hurontario would be served by all the Hurontario routes, especially the 19. Furthermore, the subway would take over all of the 1 and 201 Dundas routes ridership east of Hurontario, plus it would divert riders from the 20 Rathburn, 26/76 Burnhamthorpe and 3 Bloor.
In the meantime a Sherway extension is definitely needed, although that's more to serve Etobicoke than Mississauga.
Interlining subways is much more expensive than interlining LRTs though. With subways, you need a complex network of tunnels, basically a highway interchange underground. I'm not saying that it won't take some creativity with alignments and station locations, but it can be done, especially if that possibility is taken into account from the start.
Dundas LRT west of Hurontario would be a waste of money. Interlining it with Hurontario LRT and serving MCC makes sense. Dundas is the one of two suitable corridors for subway in Mississauga. The other is Hurontario. But if both Hurontario and Dundas get LRT, there will be no more need for subway.
Neither the Hurontario or Dundas LRT solve the problem of express connections between MCC, Airport, UTM, let alone beyond Mississauga, so I don't see how the Mississauga Transitway can be "decommissioned." Besides, the transitway will serve regional express connections far better than any subway extension.
It's subway pipe dreams to MCC that will further delay needed subway lines like the eastern DRL.
The whole point of SOS was to SAVE OUR SUBWAYS. Our lines haven't been extended in 30 years. Kipling was built before I was born, and that was ONE STOP extension! I don't know when Kennedy was built, but probably before that. When was the Yonge line last extended? Doesn't it bother anyone that our terminii haven't changed in 30 years? Nevermind trying to build entirely new lines! And Sheppard isn't even finished! Total logic #fail.
It doesn't really matter though because Yonge and Danforth can't handle extensions until DRL is built. I get the Sheppard issues, that's a shame. But setting that aside, you're complaining that one line hasn't been extended since 1980...to a mall surrounded by light industry.
If I were SOS I would have simply extended danforth to STC. Built an EGLINTON subway from the airport to DON MILLS... Then BUILD a DRL from DONMILLS and Sheppard down through Pape through Queen and all the way to Dundas West. Those three are the main routes... everything else can have bus or lrt.