Calrissian
Active Member
Literally most of my friends live along the Eglinton corridor in Etobicoke (I went to high school at Richview, so Eglinton and Islington) and I can attest very well to how that road functions. It is CROWDED, rush hour, during mornings, afternoons, nights.. It's a mess. It's the main spine for Etobicoke. I can't even fathom what that will look like with a streetcar taking up two PRECIOUS lanes on that road.
Don't give me that shit that drivers will drop their cars to take this glorified streetcar as well! Consensus in that neighbourhood is that with a subway they'd be tempted, with a streetcar? NO WAY; they're keeping their cars. I spoke to councilor Holyday today who is strongly anti Eglinton LRT.. He told me he gets daily calls from concerned constituents about traffic snarls that will inevitably develop on Eglinton and won't even help their commute times - with all honesty the LRT is only marginally faster than a bus.
Well its happening, so deal with it.