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I think the 401 wouldn't be as awful if people could take the trip to Toronto from Milton off-peak without issue. When I was in Oakville, I didn't have a car because of the Oakville Transit and hourly (and then half-hourly) trains.
I wouldn’t be calling it “the relief line” firstly, and secondly I do think it’ll be around for the younger people here. If not from Burlington to Oshawa, then at the bare minimum MCC-Markham. It would be fully at grade in a protected alignment, so it’s not a subway at all. And, there are frankly a finite number of other projects that precede it, even if that lineup seems long. Much of our major works are already on the 1-2 decade horizon.
See I don’t think it’s a small list in front of it. Finch will want to be extended to at least Yonge. Once there it will want to be extended to Scarborough. Sheppard is begging to get to Downsview. But also to Scarborough town centre. There’s Eglinton East that needs to happen. Something has to happen on jane. Ontario line West will be a thing. And then waterfront lrt east and west. If you’re asking the people of Mississauga who use this line to wait for all those projects to be complete. That’s an extremely hard pill to swallow.
I feel like the Sheppard extension will definitely be the next project to be announced, long before any action on the Milton Line. And I can't complain about Sheppard getting extended, since I feel like it was shortchanged by Mike Harris when they cut it, and this extension would at least allow the Sheppard line to have some use.
Considering how long it takes to build anything to hear maybe after these projects we can start the planning is laughable. That’s insane. We’re building the density. 70-85 floor buildings. Can we get some reward.
There's no where near the demand East of the DVP to support subway.
Yes it has a map, you can skip to 8:32.
I do wonder how demand will look once the tens of thousands of new units along the corridor are built though. It'll be many times more dense than Line 2 east of the DVP.
Great so now we’re building based on potential growth. Ok how about an additional 37 buildings at MCC with 18000 units. Perhaps that place could use some better connection to Toronto.
That's interesting. I guess by building a surface system with frequent stops, then you get more densification than just sticking stops every kilometre or two.
That surface system is probably more useful as a bus, or if demand is very high, LRT. Buses can give very local stopping patterns. LRT is a compromise between bus and metro/subway.
And subway is a compromise between GO Trains and buses.
At a certain point, your City Council and the Planning Dept need to actually advocate for a subway if they want one. There is and has been money for rail transit here. MCC’s density contributed to the LRT, but it’s a “minimum viable solution” in the absence of any alternatives suggested by the City.Great so now we’re building based on potential growth. Ok how about an additional 37 buildings at MCC with 18000 units. Perhaps that place could use some better connection to Toronto.
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Those curves alone are probably a 20-30 mph max curve for trains. Would probably end up adding like 8-15 minutes on the travel time alone
