[drum118]

I hope that the TTC focuses on getting money to relocate the stations at Dundas West and Lansdowne so they are directly tied to the future lines. Doing both at the same time could reduce the amount of time the line has to close on weekends while this work is being done and then people will transfer to the rail lines to get downtown.

The community is trying to ask for the moon to try and stop this project. The city and TTC should look at it rationally and see how it can improve connections between the services and to provide better transit to the community. And that's not with stations that will have limited service since no one will use them.

Not going to happen and its a dead horse.

One needs to look a what the land currently support as well the cost in tearing them down; building a new block over the existing tunnels so they can be removed at a future date; when and how do you remove the existing tunnels while not disrupting normal service? The list goes on to the point who going to pay for these new stations as well how??

Not a big deal to have to do some walking from the rail corridor to the existing stations considering what you have to do in Europe in the first place. Also, riders using the current stations will out weight the riders from the rail corridors in the first place.

If and when TTC is able to built the connection from Dundas West Station to the Bloor line, its a very short walk, not like the current surface walk. With the opening of the new Dundas walkway to Bloor this week, it a shorter walk than Bloor.

 

[nfitz]

With the opening of the new Dundas walkway to Bloor this week, it a shorter walk than Bloor.

Assuming you run fast enough across 4 lanes of busy traffic on Dundas dragging all your suitcases. #frogger

 

[W. K. Lis]

Assuming you run fast enough across 4 lanes of busy traffic on Dundas dragging all your suitcases. #frogger

I can see a new video game: Dundas West Station/UPX. Load up with your luggage and try to cross Dundas Street Street in mid-block, and win points.

 

[vic]

With the opening of the new Dundas walkway to Bloor this week, it a shorter walk than Bloor.

I posted this in the UP thread:

Walking from UP to TTC via Bloor: 326m http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=6797729
Walking from UP to TTC via Dundas, no jaywalking: 416m http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=6797733
Walking from UP to TTC via Dundas, no jaywalking option #2: 538m http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=6797737
Walking from UP to TTC via Dundas, with jaywalking: 284m http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=6797734

All of this also depends a bit on exactly where you get off the train, and I didn't include under-station zigzagging between stairwells/elevators, etc.

 

[smallspy]

Assuming you run fast enough across 4 lanes of busy traffic on Dundas dragging all your suitcases. #frogger

Dundas and Edna is supposed to have a traffic light installed as early as this spring.

Dan
Toronto, Ont.

 

[salsa]

I'll believe it when I see it.

Link

 

[Edward Skira]

Let them move. Others will move in. So what?

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

I'll believe it when I see it.

Cry me a river. They should start selling now and stop showing up at the community meetings.

AoD

 

[crs1026]

A real estate offering of that magnitude would put the realtor community on side with the elevated option.

The demographics in the area makesme think that people will wait and see. Lots of young people who are renting, and lots of young families who have financial and other reasons not to pull up roots.

- Paul

 

[W. K. Lis]

It'll be quieter than the ones who move into the condos next to the Gardiner.

 

[dowlingm]

A real estate offering of that magnitude would put the realtor community on side with the elevated option.

Lots of land transfer tax for the city/province too.

 

[salsa]

If the Nimbys are right that the overpass will collapse their property values, then do not miss this opportunity to buy some affordable housing along a subway line!

 

[mdrejhon]

If they saw the Options 4 Davenport images during canvassing, and never saw the Metrolinx equivalent, I would not be surprised 30% would want to move.

But what they'll end up getting will probably be much nicer than SkyTrain, thanks to all the pressure.

 

[W. K. Lis]

If the Nimbys are right that the overpass will collapse their property values, then do not miss this opportunity to buy some affordable housing along a subway line!

Now if only a house had a murder occurred on the premises some 10 years, became a marijuana grow-house recently, and could now get the GO grade separation next door. Wonder what the sale price we can get on that one?

 

[M II A II R II K]

Apparently the NIMBYs can tolerate that Trichlorethylene infested wasteland that used to be the Lansdowne Carhouse which is why no one wants to touch it, or pay the $60 million to simply get rid of the poison.