AlvinofDiaspar
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and cheap!
Clearly not necessarily cheap - but may prove cheaper than what they have in mind.
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Agreed. But I was wondering about surface parking lots immediately surrounding the Value Garage. Not sure how large are those lands and who actually owns themPerhaps the answer to that would become clearer if a title search was conducted......it is difficult in this country to build stuff on land you don't own.
I could see a Piccadilly-like subway line running to Pearson too, just not in Toronto.There has to be a people mover in there. I could see a Heathrowesque underground subway line running in a "Y" from processing around to the various terminals.
Is anyone looking alternate options to the Pearson hub? As Pearson is driving this initiative their focus and gain is to see a transit hub built at the airport. Does it make sense to create a Union Station West at Pearson? What percentage of commuters travelling on the Kitchener GO Line or the Eglinton LRT/Mississauga Transitway will need or want to dogleg to the Airport Hub to end their journey or have the option of a transfer?
Could a dedicated transit service that would run from a station at Eglinton and Renforth, through stops at the airport and up to the Kitchener Go line be a valid option? The line would be roughly 7km long.
Is anyone looking alternate options to the Pearson hub? As Pearson is driving this initiative their focus and gain is to see a transit hub built at the airport. Does it make sense to create a Union Station West at Pearson? What percentage of commuters travelling on the Kitchener GO Line or the Eglinton LRT/Mississauga Transitway will need or want to dogleg to the Airport Hub to end their journey or have the option of a transfer?
Could a dedicated transit service that would run from a station at Eglinton and Renforth, through stops at the airport and up to the Kitchener Go line be a valid option? The line would be roughly 7km long.
I completely agree. I am thinking of having two hubs at Renforth Station and Malton GO and connecting the two via Pearson Airport with a single rapid transit line.What you're saying about not terminating at the airport makes sense: there's a great blog article "Keys to Great Airport Transit" in Human Transit about transit and airports that makes the same case.
This point argues for Union Station West being located at the airport if anything. I see nothing wrong with all traffic going between Kitchener and downtown Toronto through Pearson airport
- If you can afford it, go via the airport instead of terminating there. Most airports are large-scale cul-de-sacs, and like every cul-de-sac, they say: “I want only as much transit service as I can justify all by myself.” So if you can tunnel under the airport and serve it on the way to other places, as in Sydney, you will often end up with much better service for all your airport users, employees and travelers alike.
What you're saying about not terminating at the airport makes sense: there's a great blog article "Keys to Great Airport Transit" in Human Transit about transit and airports that makes the same case.
- Combine air travelers and airport employees on the same train/bus, and appeal to an economically diverse range of air travelers, not just the elite. This is a case of the general principle that transit thrives on the diversity of trips for which it’s useful, not on specialization. If elites want a nicer train, give them first class cars at higher fares, but not a separate train just for them. (And as always, elite services are a good role for the for-profit sector.) As always, the more people of all kinds you can get on a train or bus, the more frequently you can afford to run it, which means less waiting, and the lower the fare you need to charge.
- Connect the airport to lots of places, not just downtown, by providing a total network. It’s the total transit system at the airport, not just the airport-downtown express line, that determines who can get there, and how quickly. And the total network requires connections — another reason to care about frequency.
- Don’t interfere with the growth of other services. Airport terminals are still not huge destinations by citywide standards, so don’t sacrifice other major markets to serve them. Toronto’s airport train, for example, not only carries few people but creates issues for higher-ridership services with which it shares track. Another common problem is the branch into the airport that cuts frequency and capacity on a mainline, even though the mainline’s demand is much higher than the airport’s (San Francisco, Vancouver).
- If you can afford it, go via the airport instead of terminating there. Most airports are large-scale cul-de-sacs, and like every cul-de-sac, they say: “I want only as much transit service as I can justify all by myself.” So if you can tunnel under the airport and serve it on the way to other places, as in Sydney, you will often end up with much better service for all your airport users, employees and travelers alike.
Toronto’s airport train, for example, not only carries few people but creates issues for higher-ridership services with which it shares track. Another common problem is the branch into the airport that cuts frequency and capacity on a mainline, even though the mainline’s demand is much higher than the airport’s (San Francisco, Vancouver).
Why should we? I know London Heathrow and Vienna for example have express trains from the airport that go to the downtown areas of the two respective cities and while their services are pricey, they're targeting a business audience anyway who have meetings or conferences to attend in the downtown areas and are at a time constraint. Other travellers have regular train services that might not be as fast but are an affordable option, and besides not everyone is heading to Union so GO service from the airport could offer more connections and the UPX as it is now could go to Union with no stops.At some point in the future when there's reliable, fast and frequent GO service, maybe we can ditch UPE then.
Why should we? I know London Heathrow and Vienna for example have express trains from the airport that go to the downtown areas of the two respective cities and while their services are pricey, they're targeting a business audience anyway who have meetings or conferences to attend in the downtown areas and are at a time constraint. Other travellers have regular train services that might not be as fast but are an affordable option, and besides not everyone is heading to Union so GO service from the airport could offer more connections and the UPX as it is now could go to Union with no stops.
This point argues for Union Station West being located at the airport if anything. I see nothing wrong with all traffic going between Kitchener and downtown Toronto through Pearson airport