Paleo
Active Member
+1. I'm no transit planner but connecting NYCC and STC to York University could (would?) push ridership up near 10 000 riders per hour. I mean what's the current ridership on the express bus from Downsview?
Add in the developing Downsview lands and Sheppeard E corridor as well
Advocates always vastly overestimate demand and underestimates or gloss over costs. I have to laugh at some of the suggestions I've read on here about building subways to Cherry Beach or the Beaches.
Do some math. There are 50,000 people that use the York U campus daily. From what I have read in the past, the split is about 50/50 between those living in Toronto and those living beyond.
The overwhelming majority that arrive at Downsview head down into the subway to go south. Even if you assumed everyone in Toronto headed to York would use transit instead of driving (and York isn't slowing down on building parking lots), you'd have to make many more huge leaps to get to that 10K number, like assuming half of them want to go east at Downsview (not true), and that all students, faculty, and staff arrive and leave the university within the same peak hour (not true).