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Darren. Have you seen the links we've posted or will you continue to cherry pick your arguments?
Keithz, are you referring to the info about development or the case of Main station? In case you havent noticed yet, I'm not the type that justifies my view based solely on a map I found online or a link I found online about a possible development that is destined to take place. I know the area of Main station to Gerrard pretty well first hand. I am in the Main Square are probably twice a weekend and at least once a weekday. I go there for either the Sobeys or the Canadian Tire or whatever else I might need from that area. Yes the stations are not literally on top of each other, but anyone, abled or disabled, can transfer the short distance between the two. Its no harder then say the brief walk to cross a light at a wide avenue such as University. Using the argument that we need better transfers then that to justify running the DRL side-by-side to a GO line on the Portlands is a non-starter because we already have a good enough transfer on the Lakeshore east line. Having a DRL station at the Portlands will do nothing for that area that a GO station would not.
I was on Queen between Spadina and Bathurst last night, and from there ended up at Bloor and Bathurst wakling east towards Spadina again. There were more people waking in and out of establishments along Queen west then there were on Bloor west. I ended up back on Queen west later in the night and the sidewalks were still busy with people. Alot of those people drove or took a streetcar to get where they had to go. I think that the current concentration of around the clock activity on Queen deserves something better then a streetcar. A subway would encourage that area to become even more then what it currently is.