MrsNesbitt
Active Member
Hi, Mrs Nesbitt, how are you? I tend to agree with, I think the problem was not the lack of subway since Etobicoke and North York had subways. It was the corporate tax rates. They were too. High. Now when the city revived, people skipped them for downtown. Notice these days the heat is all about Downtown followed buy Vaughan, Richmond Hill, Markham and even Milton. Oakville when people want to talk about the Bay Street Wealthy (like my parents). For the subway: the problem is the push is coming out of parts of Queens Park. The Liberals said they were subway champions.
http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/07/14/can-yonge-and-sheppard-ever-be-like-yonge-and-eglinton/
I don't think Y+S is a commercial strip so much anymore.
I'm well thanks! Taxes may have been a factor in the past, but at this point the undeniable reality is that the bulk of the growth in this city will happen downtown, whether or not we want to accept that. STC and ECC are nodes, yes, but they'll never be the sort of urban centres that the Metro planners of 30 years ago would have wanted them to be. At least within our lifetimes.
Something similar can be said about the efforts of local government further out in my neck of the woods to turn Pickering into a thriving centre of commerce...
Nobody has yet successfully explained how the DRL will relieve the Yonge Line. It will relieve Yonge-Bloor by reducing the transfers. But how will it relieve the whole Yonge Line?
Smart Track or GO RER can provide the same amount of relief as the DRL as far as Yonge-Bloor is concerned. The real question is how to relieve the whole Yonge Line by diverting a good proportion of the demand from the north. I suspect that can't be done without involving some kind of Richmond Hill RER.
You're quite right. When about 25% of the ridership (ballpark empirical figures - don't quote me on them