These are the types of posts I expect to see on that other Toronto blog site. You can only fool the ignorant with a statement like that. Highest density in the world? Get better material.

Uh no.

The report doesn't tell us anything that rational and objective persons don't already know. It's just wishful thinking to believe that having another rapid transit line to NYCC or STC would suddenly cause an employment boom.

It doesn't specify in the article but I assume that the lion share of the $272 million bill would be to expand the loop at Union Station.

Thanks for the info. I guess all of the crossings in the old city are grandfathered in then? The only time Front Street west of Spadina looks busy is during peak in the peak direction. Though I only work in the area and don't live there so I can't say what it looks like at other times. Is...

Can't count on that. How many people moving from a point on Queen or St. Clair to another point on the same street will use the green subway line? For anyone going short to even medium distances, no one will take a 4km detour with extra transfers to take a subway. For the downtown oriented...

Sorry my previous post should have said peak point not peak hour. According to a York Region study peak point on Yonge is a little under 10,000 on Yonge between Finch and Steeles and just a little under 5,000 north of Steeles.

Sheppard subway peak hour: 4,500+ Sheppard bus from Don Mills: ~1,500 pph Yonge before conversion to subway: 12,000+ pph Bloor-Danforth before conversion to subway: 9,000+ pph And just for fun, the $14 million a year loser: Spadina Vaughan subway (projected 5 years post opening): 2,200...

What's the census say? Is the population along Sheppard increasing or falling?

Really? Because as I recall, York Region's own studies show subway demand on Yonge that projects roughly in line with current day Sheppard stubway and the Vaughan "North-South link" to be even lower at about half of that.

The density of the inner suburbs pale in comparison to the old city and York.

...and easily taken away.

I don't see any.

How has Spadina and Sheppard looked so far?

I'm sure it isn't your own biases and fetishes that prompt your subways to MCC/VCC/STC positions (electric GO isn't good enough!) because they sure aren't supported by any numbers.

You're being blinded by your demagoguery. The new rolling stock is forcing them to move to off-board payment, POP, and time-based transfers not the province. Re: Presto implementation? That's terrible. The whole system is a piece of crap.

You're just a demagogue.

I only assume he'd back off pushing such a thing once he realized what could happen but then again I doubt he has the necessary awareness to even realize it. The potential for a backfire on Ford would be hilarious. New taxes that he would absolutely hate? Downtown gets a benefit from it...

Yeah it's easy to say it's "only" 20 minutes but that means 40 minutes per day of walking and 200 minutes per week. That's almost 3 1/2 hours per week spent walking to and from a stop and you're not even guaranteed nice weather. Yeah but the speed will get people out of their cars! :rolleyes...

I'm all in favour of a referendum as long the following are attached: 1. Sales taxes, road tolls, local levies, etc. 2. Experts decide what projects get priority. Of course that would never happen. God forbid if a downtown subway ever got approved in such a manner. Rob Ford would die from...