Is there any word as to when they'll start laying tracks in the street..
I had not realized there were ever streetcars at any point on Eglinton!
So the daily ridership projections for the ECLRT are quite interesting, from what I am calculating.
Metrolinx says that the ECLRT will have 117 million annual boardings, or roughly 320,000 daily boardings. Which is quite phenomenal for a route with just 5,000 pphd. The ECLRT has immense off-peak usage.
But it gets more interesting. The 117 million annual figure above is for just the Mt. Dennis to Kennedy portion. According to the SmartTrack Western Corridor Feasibility study that came out last week, Crosstown West's daily ridership is 105,331. Scarborough-Malvern LRT's ridership was projected between 4,500-5,000 pphd, so one would expect the Crosstown East to be of similar levels.
It looks like the Eglinton Crosstown from Pearson to UTSC has a huge daily ridership, comparable to the Bloor-Danforth's 535,600 daily riders. This is despite the fact that the Eglinton Crosstown has a tiny peak hour ridership in comparison.
It would be great but it most likely won't happen.
Too much political interference and a very mushy spine for our govt leaders.
In the history of amalgamated Toronto, there is no mayor who has ever lost a re-election bid - except Rob Ford.If anything, the voters have a mushy spine and refuse to stick to a plan. They happily dump the current guy and jump to someone with yet more new ideas that takes 5 years to go from conception to construction, but they only have a 4 year term.
In the history of amalgamated Toronto, there is no mayor who has ever lost a re-election bid - except Rob Ford.
In the history of amalgamated Toronto, there is no mayor who has ever lost a re-election bid - except Rob Ford.
I don't think this theory applies to Rob Ford, given he'd accomplished nothing during his 4 years, and was unlikely to accomplish anything.
It would be great but it most likely won't happen.... Too much political interference and a very mushy spine for our govt leaders. I guarantee that should Tory not get reelected the next mayor will have some sort of spin off of the current transit plan and claim that his is going to save the city