OneCity
Senior Member
Ok, but your "serious challenge" said to drive on Lawrence and see if a station is visible from an overpass. You said it's not, that it's "out of sight out of mind", and concluded that any station there wouldn't succeed. But in the same post you went on to say how a SmrtTrack station would be successful. Using your own metrics tho it wouldn't matter whether it's a station for Line 3, Line 2 on the same corridor, ST, or Stouff GO - all would be in the same location and thus all unsuccessful according to your challenge.
From what I can tell he doesn't even support a SSE station at Lawrence/McCowan because it stops progress or something. I'm lukewarm to the idea of abandoning Line 3 in favour of SSE, and even I support one. He says we'll add one at a later date (we won't since that's not the plan), and that SmrtTrack's Lawrence East station will be successful (but simultaneously won't be because it's apparently "out of sight out of mind").
Not what I was implying. I just meant it was a terrible design. Any good stop location design should be visible, pedestrian friendly, then bus/car friendly give n the area. The location is not optimal in that its hard to make pedestrian friendly. But it can atleast be improved with some better signage and as I mentioned a parking garage if it GO/RER because that's what would get people out of their cars.
The point was it's very lackluster and a very poor design and while you can accept some things that make you scratch your head, the RT has too many and in the overall landscape too few use and are proud of it. Even quite a few that do use it around SCC do support it or the LRT. I think its sad we are seeing a debate for the transfer LRT vs. a one stop subway. Im not excited about either. But like I said, ill vote and hope they improve Lawrence with the new Smarttrack station and provide a better connection to SCC. We could have don't better with both LRT or Subway technology than these two plans.