That I agree with Sean. As much as subway-fans claim pushing their agendas won't cripple available funds for Transit City, we all know the money well will dry up at some point. Heck the VCC extension's been delayed an extra year because Harper's slow to react with financial commitement. Instead...

See, I told you nothing would come of this so-called disciplinary action. Another racist just got his slap on the wrist, if even that, and now life's back to normal for the NTMA :rolleyes:. They didn't even have the common human decency to acknowledge Ms. Gero with a courtesy call, grovelling...

Because you're creating a transfer city by cutting off commuters from further east. To Coxwell, at least the major urbanized area's covered. Beaches covered, Coxwell/Danforth gentrificated, Gerrard India Bazaar tourist boosted, semblence of an east-west subway south of BD met. I don't mind...

Saying that doing over every line proposed in Transit City would cost ten times as much if done as subways instead of LRT isn't a straw man, more of a slippery slope. None of which matters anyway since for that much money you could route a subway all the way to Montreal. Routing the DRL...

No need for personal ad hominen presumptions. If not for the Don Valley dividing Overlea into east and west sides, Throncliffe and Flemingdon Parks would be the same continuous area with apts lining the way right across Overlea, hence a stop @Overlea/Don Mills would serve the area. In...

Frankly, you're BOTH wrong :rolleyes:! Nfitz- while I feel your skepticism about subway expansion your calculations aren't remotely based in reality. You can't just take the cost per kilometre of LRT then multiply it by 200 million. A stronger case for pro-LRT (and BRT) over pro-subway is to...

If trains empty out by Coxwell, does that not tell you that's precisely where the line should be located? Density eastbound form Yonge, tapers off by this point such that anyone left on the train is only shuttling off to monster suburban terminals. As the marker of the end of the urbanized zone...

^ Shesh, where was all this compassion and empathy when my typos were being shreaded left, right and center? Just saying.

The brain trust has yet to figure out that every commute in the world involves transfering from one vehicle to the next as every destination cannot possibly, realistically be reached by one single route. The sooner we get over this "no subways=victimhood mentality", the faster the entire GTA...

Wow, this must be "Bash the Dentrobate Week" :rolleyes:!! Let me make this very clear. I'm not baiting anyone. I'm just trying to get my point-of-view across dammit. Just because the majority here likes DRL and extending... er, overextending existing subway lines beyond practicality doesn't...

I agree, there can be a balance between conservationist agendas and commercial ones. To ride down Queen West, and have modern glitzy storefronts on one side of Spadina and tacky 'corner-store' looking shops on the other is ridiculous. Someday the Queen West BIA will hopefully resemble the Yonge...

Just thinking outside the box. I used to live near Lansdowne/Dupont so naturally the Galleria and Dufferin Mall were where I did most of my shopping. At times, especially winter, it's inhospitabe walking down to the mall from the subway and otherwise it's a long wait then overcrowding on the 29...

Exactly. If we build out to one urban centre, four or five more will cry "Where's our dot on the transit map?". It's impossible to please all the 905 upstarts, so why even give to one when LRT/BRT is always an option, and a cheaper one at that! Again very logical. A BD subway extension into...

In case your weren't aware of this, bjl was masquerading as another poster here recently named I-Z1 before he got banned for verbally abusive remarks and personal insults. His only purpose for posting here now is to contradict everything I post in for spiteful reasons. He's the troll, not me...

You could actually link the mall to the subway, much the way the sky-bridge connects the subway to Yorkdale Mall. No surprise, one-third of 29 south riders get off at the 3 Dufferin Mall stops (Croatia, Dufferin Grove, Slyvan) so we'd freeing up seats for long-dstance travellers as well via a...

But is Canada an assimilist melting pot or rather a multicultural democracy? If the only media representations blacks see of themselves is suspect headshots in the 6 o'clock news, what moralizing drive do they have to succeed? Subject matter can in fact influence behaviours, attitudes...

I kinda like this idea :). I always thought it silly that a major shopping centre like Dufferin Mall lies so close to the subway but is not connected to it via the underground. The ROW could stop at Waterloo/Florence, Dundas, College and Dufferin Grove/mall main entrance; and like you said be of...

Sort of off-topic, I was watching the evening news on Global yesterday, where they did an exposé on the success of Black-focused schools in Detroit. I was fascinated to know africentric schools had a 70% graduation rate in stark constrast to only 30% in the general school system. Alot of what...

Why do you assume I don't ride the 54 bus? I'm not getting my stats from osmosis you know Barbariankhatru. I told you that BRT/LRTs along Markham Rd and/or Kingston Rd would break up the 54 bus into different passenger markets. If you live in Port Union/West Hill would you seriously stay on the...

I'll repeat my last statement. There must be a compromise that can benefit most parties without everyone coming to blows over which technology is best suitable for where, when all the infighting does is subtracts from anyone actually seeing anything done, IMHO! The fact you're tempted to insult...