Kitsune
Senior Member
We're forgetting a couple key points here though. The distance from Jarvis Street to Parliament Street is one kilometre, that's far enough apart to justify the duo station scenario. Assuming 100 metre platforms this is cut down to 800 metres, which is the same average spacing as the central Eglinton Crosstown where population density is less but no one says anything about. That also means a station at Queen and Sherbourne would be over a kilometre away from Yonge (too far apart through such a dense built-up part of the City) and 1.2 kilometres from the next station at King and Sumach.
The scenario I'm proposing suggests much more equalized and reasonable stop spacing. Yonge to Jarvis would in fact be further apart than 400 metres assuming the Yonge Station is situated to the west side of the intersection as planning drawings suggests. The Jarvis station likewise could fill in the block between Jarvis and George Sts (making the walk to Sherbourne relatively easy vs the planned Sherbourne stop situated east of Sherbourne, double the walking distance back to Jarvis). With this new spacing the Parliament St station could be accommodated before the line transitions southwards to King and Sumach. Also the Sumach station doesn't have to be in a street grid and could have mutliple access points depending on how its built (with entrances even to as far as Lower River St).
With the cancellation of that planned development near Sherbourne, there's nothing else there worthy of a subway stop compared to both Jarvis and Parliament Sts. Case in point:
and near Queen and Parliament:
This is a fight worth having. And if were going to spends upwards of $15 billion on DRL Long anyway, what difference does $200 million really make to make the line be of more use to the most number of people possible? This should be a top priority. DRL done right, not cheapened out on to save face.
Have you seen what is already built in the area Queen / Sherbourne ? You can't go skipping over existing development just because its already there, and its a lot more then currently exists around Parliament / Queen. And remember - Parliament and Jarvis do not have stops on Line 2, and no is crying over spilled milk on that. Also the stations are 200 meters long. and to go from the Yonge-Queen to (lower?) Sherbourne is 819.49 meters.