Someone might want to reformat the text. The fourth line on page 1.1 is "SubwaysCoalition(S.O.S.),agroupofordinary" with no spaces visible ... at least on my monitor.
An extension to Sherway ... that's a odd one. Wasn't that a complete fail in the TTC's own studies on possible expansions? How did that suddenly come about?
Can't say I see the point of converting the existing Lakeshore streetcar to BRT west of the Humber ... wouldn't that require people to transfer?
So, essentially for Part 1 of Phase 1 - the currently funded portion of Transit City, what we will see is the Eglinton line from Don Mills to Kennedy removed, Eglinton from Jane to the airport removed, the Finch-West line cancelled. The Sheppard East LRT cancelled. The SRT extension cancelled. And instead of those 56 km of LRT, we are going to see 2 subway extensions to Scarborough Town Centre totalling only 13 km?
That's essentially what this boils down to ... you've tossed the entire funded Transit City project except for the underground Eglinton section in favour of two simple subway extensions to Scarborough Town Centre.
While it's clear that a lot of work has gone into this, and it's very impressive, I just can't imagine the Scarborough-centric nature of this is going to fly.
In the past I've been very critical of the costing I've seen here. Generally, the costing here all seems quite reasonable, at first glance.
Except the Pape-Spadina section of the DRL. How does this come in at only $1.59 billion? The length is similiar to the Sheppard East extension and that was $2.22 billion. And I'd think it would be more expensive to tunnel through downtown, not less. There would be 3 pretty expensive interchange stations ... I'd be thinking that you'd be looking at closer $3-billion for this pretty tricky piece of subway.