innsertnamehere
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The station will be fairly underused until the 407 transit way opens.
Building a new, beautified subway line
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/building-a-new-beautified-subway-line-1.2693480?cmp=rss
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Each of the new station designs is dramatically different from the rest, a principle established with the original Spadina line in the 1970s.
Downsview Park Station
Finch West Station
York University Station
Pioneer Village Station
407 Station
Vaughan Metropolitan Centre Station
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The station will be fairly underused until the 407 transit way opens.
GO Transit's highly successful and profitable 407 Express route already runs past this location, so passenger traffic at this station is anticipated to be high as soon as the station opens.
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GO Transit's highly successful and profitable 407 Express route already runs past this location, so passenger traffic at this station is anticipated to be high as soon as the station opens.
Maybe 407 Station will be so big that the station itself wouldn't be pedestrian friendly.
Hang on. Reality check time. The GO bus network ENTIRE ridership is about 50,000 a day (which would equate to 25,000 different passengers, if they take 2 trips a day). That's pretty similar to the TTC Finch West bus. I doubt only a small fraction of the GO Bus entire ridership is going to be using the 407 bus - let alone embarking or disembarking at 407 Station.
No! Not reality check time. I hate reality check time. Can't we go back to the quote from Wikipedia, the second best source for all things true after reading posts in the Transportation forum on this site, which says passenger traffic will be high because of a profitable bus route and just accept that? Anecdotally it makes sense because Metrolinx must be getting the big move funding from somewhere and here is a highly profitable bus leading to a huge station. I wouldn't be surprised if the bus route and station combo is referred to as "Operation Money Rake" in classified documents.
proposed bus terminal that will have 13 bus bays just for GO, plus five more for YRT.
Despite your "25 routes", there's only 15 arrivals during the peak hour. Some of these "routes" run only once a day. Some don't come within miles of either the City of Toronto or the Region of York.You seem to be under the impression that it's only one bus route that will stop there, when there's actually 25 different routes on the 407 corridor, mostly double decker buses.
Won't BRT go there too....or have YRT and GO spoken for all the bus bays?
Despite your "25 routes", there's only 15 arrivals during the peak hour. Some of these "routes" run only once a day. Some don't come within miles of either the City of Toronto or the Region of York.
Holy exaggeration Batman ...
Sure, it will get some use. But let's remember that the entire GO Transit Bus service carries less riders in a single day than a single busy TTC route. And most GO Transit buses don't come anywhere near York.
And with that in mind - the size of that bus terminal is absolutely frigging absurd. Much of it could be left unbuilt for years.
BRT will get an underground stop that will be roughed in for now, if it's the 407 transitway that you're referring to.