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Indeed. This is why the job should pay $2M per year or better; so the 1 in 5 million person capable of such a thing will be willing to take the job.
Absolutely. I'd rather Metrolinx just run the subway network personally.
Indeed. This is why the job should pay $2M per year or better; so the 1 in 5 million person capable of such a thing will be willing to take the job.
Interesting - I didn't go that far back. It certainly hasn't been in every proposal since however, as the 2001 RTES only had the single station at West Mall/Queensway Don't you know anything?Don't you know anything?Straight out of Network 2011 and every proposal recommendation since...
Wow ... and only 700 in the peak hour (I expect much of the Sherway traffic isn't peak hour ...).Sherway Gardens is one of the largest trip generators west of Kipling btw
However, it only cost $15-million per kilometre, even with all the overruns.I was speaking with a city hall fellow, and he acknowledged that St. Clair was a mistake. In addition to all the construction problems, the opinion of the Transit City team is that parts of St. Clair were too narrow for such a right of way. That is why Transit City calls for tunnels on streets with similar issues.
Fuck?Dude, fuck RTES 2001!
I haven't been discussing East Mall - as I noted above, that may be reasonable. It's the Sherway extension that doesn't make sense.Why were people talking all hot and bothered all of two years ago about doing a one-stop extension to East Mall on the Honeydale property if East Mall's so skippable?
That was however, the most recent proposal; I neither advocate for or against it. Extending to East Mall might make a lot more sense - and why not then? It's that last 1.7 km from East Mall to West Mall that doesn't make sense. That's only a bit shorter than the 2.0 km distance from Steeles West station to Vaughan Metropolitan Town City Centre station! And much has been written about that, which has a higher demand than Sherway!You don't run a 3-km long subway that much of a distance with zero stops en route, particularly not when Dundas/East Mall is apart of an urban growth centre. That's retarded.
I haven't been discussing East Mall - as I noted above, that may be reasonable. It's the Sherway extension that doesn't make sense.
That was however, the most recent proposal; I neither advocate for or against it. Extending to East Mall might make a lot more sense - and why not then? It's that last 1.7 km from East Mall to West Mall that doesn't make sense. That's only a bit shorter than the 2.0 km distance from Steeles West station to Vaughan Metropolitan Town City Centre station! And much has been written about that, which has a higher demand than Sherway!
My rudeness! How dare you! Your the one making comments like "Don't you know anything? " and "fuck RTES 2001"Pardon my lingua franca, your Rudeness.
Wow ... your really going to defend building a subway for a predicted damnd of 700 riders an hour. Smitherman estimated this would cost $1-billion ... and I'd think that looking at the Network 2011 alignment, more than half of it would be from East Mall to Sherway given that is where it would not be along the railway alignment.If you're going to go through all the trouble of extending one stop over, why not extend to Sherway in one shot?
My rudeness! How dare you! Your the one making comments like "Don't you know anything? " and "fuck RTES 2001"
Wow ... your really going to defend building a subway for a predicted damnd of 700 riders an hour. Smitherman estimated this would cost $1-billion ... and I'd think that looking at the Network 2011 alignment, more than half of it would be from East Mall to Sherway given that is where it would not be along the railway alignment.
Uh ... the Kennedy/Kipling extensions were a single project. Your telling me the 1.5 km extension to Kipling was a significant distance, but the 1.8 km extension from Kipling to East Mall isn't? 2.1 km to Downsview is significant, but 1.8 km isn't?I can't see the TTC building the East Mall extension and it costing under $500 million. > $500 million to shave 3 minutes off one's bus commute is dumb planning. At least when they did one-stop extensions in the past like to Kennedy or Downsview, a significant distance was covered and new corridor(s) and neighbourhoods penetrated.
Uh ... the Kennedy/Kipling extensions were a single project. Your telling me the 1.5 km extension to Kipling was a significant distance, but the 1.8 km extension from Kipling to East Mall isn't? 2.1 km to Downsview is significant, but 1.8 km isn't?
Dude ... really?
I apologise, it's very easy to miss a moving goalpost.You missed my point entirely.
Yes ... the same way Willowdale is a potential future station. That doesn't mean we count it. I'm not sure what your point here is; it wasn't factored into the RTES volume calculations. And has no relevance to the post you quoted, which is questioning why a 1.8 km extension from Kipling to East Mall is not a significant distance, when 1.5 km extensions and 2.1 km extensions are.See RTES Exhibit ES-14. West Mall (aka Sherway) is listed as a "Proposed Station"; East Mall is listed as a "Potential Future Station".
What East Mall station? The TTC Sherway extension proposal added one station at Queensway and West Mall. There might be a case for extending to East Mall - though no one has considered it. I just don't see the point of extending to Sherway.