Bojaxs
Active Member
I guess I don't understand why we're trying to convert a regional, heavy rail system into a subway.And is a station at Lakeview going to pop up overnight? No, obviously we expect it will be delivered in conjunction with electrification and corridor expansion.
What’s important to understand is in the long term, as we continually expand transit, this one corridor gets two birds stoned at once. It has some subway-like stop distances and frequencies as well as long haul express options.
There will be negligible losses to some trips for some period of ramp up time I’m sure. Overall it’s a huge win for what should be a pretty cheap infill station – considering lots of track work was already going to occur in this area.
Instead of constantly adding new stations to exisisting lines, imo it would be better to improve bus connections to the exisisting stations.
It honestly seems like people, even those within the urbanist/ transit community, don't like taking the bus and would rather have a train station plopped down across the street from them.
This just seems to be another classic example of the GTA sacrificing speed for accessibility. And we've seen what that's done to the Toronto streetcars.