innsertnamehere
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luckily the Spadina subway will fix most of that issue.The worst commute times in the city are actually found in northwestern Etobicoke.
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luckily the Spadina subway will fix most of that issue.The worst commute times in the city are actually found in northwestern Etobicoke.
luckily the Spadina subway will fix most of that issue.
Eglinton Crosstown West and Finch West will address that more effectively. Which corridor would warrant a North-South LRT? Islington or Kipling?
Jane Street. One of the busiest bus routes in the city - 43,500 passengers on an average weekday. Significant speed improvement since some sections would need to be underground (south of Black Creek in particular) and a lot of good interchange opportunities: York University, Finch West, Eglinton, St. Clair extension, and possibly a new Go Transit station on the Milton Line.
I meant for Etobicoke. Yes, Jane should get done
Kipling is more important a corridor than Islington.
Kipling links up Humber College (Lakeshore campus), Kipling Stn, apartment cluster at Eglinton, at Dixon Rd, Etobicoke North GO, developments at Rexdale Blvd, Westhumber area apartments, John Garland area apartments, the Albion Centre/Finch LRT connection and the apartment clusters leading up to Steeles Ave.
I meant for Etobicoke.
Everyone here seems to forget that people shape their lives to be convenient or manageable. The trips are local because a trip elsewhere in the city is truly brutal.
A trip downtown can involve two buses before you get to a subway line, and even a trip to East York involves three buses. I joined this forum because I noticed that in my office, people that we were trying to hire, and long-time employees were making employment decisions based on transit. From Scarborough - say Malvern - to East York is a hardship commute.
I think that the studies are nonsense, and large number of the members' (here) obeisance to "expert" opinion and studies is nonsense too. If people aren't doing it (say, commuting downtown), you can conclude that they don't want to, but you could more reasonably conclude that it's too bloody inconvenient and that is the reason that no one is doing it. To conclude that no one wants to do it and therefore we can't justify the rest of the Sheppard subway or other pseudo-scientific nonsense is slavish adherence to numbers without analyzing why the numbers are what they are.
My personal experience says no one can be bothered to make the commute. We know that Scarborough is truly under-served in a significant way and the entire former borough is a giant transit desert which perpetuates the socio-economic situation there. How come we aren't cheering on any great gentrifying neighbourhoods in Scarborough the way that the Junction or Eglington West - in three to four years - will look? Simple. There are none. It's not a place people are rushing to like other areas of the city and I think that transit plays a large part in that decision.
But the hole on regional travel is still there inside the 416. And neither GO nor the TTC really seems interested in addressing it.
The TTC isn't responsible for making decisions about building transit. However City Planning is very interested in the Relief Line, which looks to be the single project that will have the biggest impact on commute times. They recently received funding to get the Relief Line between Sheppard and Dundas West to shovel ready status. The extension to Sheppard should be shovel ready in three to four years. We just need funding to materialize to actually build it.
The TTC isn't responsible for making decisions about building transit. However City Planning is very interested in the Relief Line, which looks to be the single project that will have the biggest impact on commute times. They recently received funding to get the Relief Line between Sheppard and Dundas West to shovel ready status. The extension to Sheppard should be shovel ready in three to four years. We just need funding to materialize to actually build it.
DRL Short does nothing substantial for commute times. All it does is relieve overcrowding at Yonge/Bloor.
And DRL Long is maybe 20 years away. And that's me being optimistic.
Toronto's turn-coat "conservative mayor" is so determined to get his lunatic, expensive ($1.5 BILLION for ONE subway stop which of course will cost $2 billion by the time it is done!!), incompatible transit system done that he's capitulated to the leftist, elitist, insular car-hating scum on Toronto Council and allowed for ROAD TOLLS! So once again, CAR DRIVERS get to pay for public transit. Not only that, but it allows Toronto to "screen out" undesirables from the surrounding areas since the tolls are on the Don Valley Parkway and Gardiner Expressway, both arteries leading into Toronto. Which is what the bike-riding oddballs in Toronto have wanted for some time. Lastly, the whole transit expansion has devastated businesses along Eglinton Ave, which is what happened to St. Clair ave businesses when they put in the streetcar infrastructure there.