scarberiankhatru
Senior Member
Better bus service yes, but spending billions on light rail or subways in the suburbs is a bad investment. Even a subway can't match the speed of the 401. That's why the only people you see on these boards (myself included) are transit geeks. The only transit solution that's worth building is the DRL.
The only people on a transit sub-thread of an "Urban Toronto" internet forum are transit geeks? Very insightful!
It's one thing to be on the 401 and moving, but it can take 15 minutes to travel 1km on local roads getting to the 401 and another 15 minutes to travel 1km once you get off the 401.
Suburban Scarborough and North York already have higher transit ridership than most US downtowns. If you think there's no demand, I invite you to try squeeze yourself onto a Finch bus at rush hour.
Or at 2pm. Or at 10pm. Or a Steeles bus, or a Don Mills bus, or a 190, or...
You have to scramble for a seat on the Finch bus at 1am, too...even though it runs every 5.5 minutes (is there a higher frequency bus route in the world after midnight? The private buses that ply Hong Kong, maybe, if counted collectively.). Maybe LowerBay will be happy when the Finch bus' frequency is increased to the point that the buses push each along in a big loop and riders just jump in and out through open doors.