Solid Snake
Active Member
well the liberals continue to lose seats...
seems the future of our transit will be decided by either the NDP or the PC.
well the liberals continue to lose seats...
Etobicoke, York, and East York deserve world class transit. Etobicoke has the short end of the stick: four stations! York has half a station: the Heath Street exit of St. Clair West station. East York has a small part of Woodbine station.
Take the bus anywhere from those places will get you to a subway stop in 20 minutes or so. Taking the bus from Steeles and Stains will take an hour, if not more
So if you take a bus from Steeles and Kipling, you will get to a subway stop in 20 minutes? Ok.
With the New Steeles West station? Easy.
From the ward 6 transit meeting. KS is Stintz, MG is Grimes and AB is Byford. Loved his comment at the end...
13. Why did MG & KS vote in favor of Scarborough subway? Can AB make decisions without political input?
• KS is running for Mayor after she steps down as TTC Chair
• Province said it would use its $1.48 billion funding commitment to build a different, shorter subway to the Scarborough City Centre
• MG: we should have been building subways for the last 40 years
• AB: the numbers supported the subway; he is prepared to lose his job if necessary for speaking his mind
^ I continue to be amazed that people are surprised to learn that it actually makes sense from a ridership perspective, people simply don't believe that it will have the same (or at least very close) ridership numbers to the DRL.
^ I continue to be amazed that people are surprised to learn that it actually makes sense from a ridership perspective, people simply don't believe that it will have the same (or at least very close) ridership numbers to the DRL.
I find this hard to believe given how little development there is on the Scarborough RT subway, except at Scarborough Centre. The DRL would almost certainly have higher ridership than every line other than the Yonge line. Certainly this would be true if done properly (i.e. extended to Don Mills/Finch or Leslie/Highway 7).
Future transit demands were forecasted using the City’s GTA Travel Demand model to determine transportation movements based on 2031 projected population and employment land use densities, and a transit network that includes the planned transit infrastructure and service improvements described in Section 1.2.1. Demand projection results were then processed through TTC’s assignment model, MADITUC.
The 2031 land use projections are based on the regional population and employment targets from Ontario’s Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe. These targets are summarized in Table 1-2. Within the City of Toronto, a modified forecast has been developed as the base case for the DRTES which meets the same population target for the City, but increases the employment total from 1.64M to 1.83M. This forecast is based on the City of Toronto’s “Flash Forward” Official Plan land use (for employment) with an additional 200,000 population to meet the Growth Plan target in Table 1-2.