You think a bus route with over 100 individual stops can be replaced by limited stoppage streetcar? LRT works on Eglinton because stops are already spaced far apart (APPROX. every 400 metres). A stop at Markham & Eglinton would be a stone's throw away from Cedarbrae Mall. Not everything has to...

First thing you've said that I agree with. Eglinton makes so much sense it's astounding people are still in doubt over it's potential. Why would anyone from the suburbs need to take a bus all the way south to the BD line anymore, when Eglinton can cut that commute in half? What better way to...

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The magic of LRT? Belittling much! The rail corridor is such that any line, be it LRT or subway, can be 85% above ground, at pennies on the dollar construction. The tunnel aspect is the big kahunas I'm advocating against... $333, 000, 000 per kilometre :eek:. Nuff said! I never said a LRT...

Downtown- anything south of Dundas from Parliament to Dufferin Midtown- Bloor to St Clair around Yonge Uptown- Eglinton/Yonge and vicinity

Dude I just admitted that I'm uncertain of the logistic details. That's why I brought up with the LRT proposal to fish out the answers I seek. I figured since this was an at-grade relief line (designed primarily with the intent of alleviating existing subways) prior conventions of 'subway'...

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Except costs. I happen to believe a "Rosedale" fashioned station with basic access points and no elaborate space required for feeder buses to terminate, is more than adequate. My fear is that we'd see more "Warden" mega-stations if done as subways. I'm thinking more along the lines of ALRV or...

Well I naturally assumed streetcars would cost far less as all they'd require are open-air, simplistic platforms. A lot of proximate station sites (Gerrard Square, Riverdale, Parkdale, Brockton) already have access stairwells needing minimal upgrades. Only Union Station truly has to be...

Who cares how many times the DRL crosses the Don! What's important is that it does come 2018.

I'd love to see that be made a reality. It only makes to make Queen and Eglinton subway lines. Look how points of interest (commercial/residential/industrial/special interest) all line up nicely along those corridors. IMO it's long overdue.

You mean per trip? The LRT set in the rail corridors (Weston Galt SUB and Kingston SUB) could be three cars long each with the capacity to hold upto 200 commuters. If routed by a subway, every 90 seconds, it's likely LRTs could meet the demand. And of course LRTs can be routed undergrounf...

When tallying I factored in the cost on the whole system occured by operating and maintaining Sheppard, the only subway line running at a deficit i.e. underused. I'm sure the extension to Scarborough Centre would cost at least $4 billion ($3 billion for tunneling/track; $1 billion for station...

CC: Not to judge you or anything, I personally think it's BS to put on a pedestal 8.6 kms of multibillion new subway in a very limited catchment over hundreds of kilometres of new LRT/BRT networking spanning the entire city and then some. What plan is in the best interest of the City of Toronto...

Thank God Almighty :D!! The weakness of Torontonians in their steadfast blind devotion to antiquated Red Rocket subways and streetcars makes me tremble. Sheppard is less developed than most major aterials in the 905 suburbs yet gets already a $4 billion dollar stubway which the promise of more...

Can GO trains be run sequentially every 2-3 minutes, 20 hours a day? There's out-of-the-box and then there's quackerbox, lol! At best we'd recieve three trips per hour every 20 minutes. That'd require rigid fare zoning throughout the GTAA, making taking transit a draconian affair where every...

Ah but don't forget now, the Milton line also bypasses the Bloor stop even though it'd be relatively simple to accomodate it ;)! The only way I could foresee a permanent GO station at Black Creek/Eglinton is to shut down the existing stop in Weston. It's simply too close (roughly 1 km)...

Okay suppose we do nothing and just improve GO service that'd still run too infrequently to be considered a reliable option. How does that help the residents of northwest Pickering (Woodview, Rougemount) get anywhere in a hurry when they'd have to backtrack to either Pickering GO or Rouge Hill...

What's the likelihood of the NDP becoming the lead opposition party ahead of the Liberals? For all the mudkraking against Harper they can't seem to find one damning thing his administration's done SINCE elected into office- only dredge up some scandal from 17 years ago and an alledged bribing...

Scarberian why are you so condescending about other people's ideas and suggestions? Forcing every commuter in Durham Region to rely on a once or twice per hour GO train to get around anywhere makes no sense. A Sheppard-Kingston transit line (LRT or BRT) is very possible. From Meadowvale the line...