micheal_can
Senior Member
1) I am from Vancouver
2) I'm not referring to comparing demographics I'm referring to comparing infrastructure
So you want infrastructure that will need to be rebuilt in 10 years?
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1) I am from Vancouver
2) I'm not referring to comparing demographics I'm referring to comparing infrastructure
Even Josh Colle voted against evidence-based planning and he's the chair of the TTC (and my local city councillor).http://urbantoronto.ca/news/2017/01...cil-rejects-requiring-data-determine-priority
The fact is Toronto has many priorities and facts should not be used to portray the richest areas of the City area priority over the areas which have been neglect the most from transit infrastructure investment in the past. Surely we can avoid this divisive debate by starting to garner a plan to fund projects in all areas of the City together as a priority.
Even Josh Colle voted against evidence-based planning and he's the chair of the TTC (and my local city councillor).
The fact that transit is such a political game is criminal however we have gotten to a point in which the city is so lacking inn transit and the demand is so high in so many places that almost any project can be successful.
Even Josh Colle voted against evidence-based planning and he's the chair of the TTC (and my local city councillor).
Because it was a pretty blatant political stunt to relitigate the whole debate.
It would be great if we started using actions instead of words in general when it comes to this cities aspirations.
It's also just stupid. There's "evidence" to support many different proposals. What matters is how we prioritize and balance the different benefits and drawbacks of competing proposals - keeping costs low, serving the most passengers, supporting future growth, reducing travel times for the most people, reducing travel times for the people with the longest commutes, and so on. Josh Matlow's idea of "evidence based decision-making" is really just "decision-making based on the evidence that I like".
2006 - Scarborough RT expansion is the preferred solution, B-D extension worst (TTC Report).
2008 - 2010 - Transit City best with transfer at Kennedy (TTC report).
2012 - Continuous Scarborough Eglinton LRT best option (Metrolinx report).
2014 - 2016 - B-D subway extension best option (Metrolinx, TTC, and City Planning Reports).
The question always is, when we talk about evidence and fact based decisions, we always get manipulated facts.
I think that in the long run subway extensions will always come to be appreciated. Despite not seeing the areas as well and costing more, riding the subway further with no transfers is much faster, especially if a bus passenger can transfer direct to subway rather than to LRT then to subway.
Save $2 billion, up grade the SkyTrain and make the Eglinton line SkyTrain as well. Faster, higher capacity than LRT, vastly cheaper and faster to build. LRT is just as stupid as the subway.