[afransen]

Have you taken GO buses? Off-peak, they provide better service than any GO train.

I've taken them on peak. It was faster to drive to Clarkson.

 

[ericmacm]

I think once Hurontario LRT is complete and if Eglinton LRT gets extended to intersect with Hurontario LRT and also if they re-align the Milton Go Transit to add a stop at MCC, then you will have 3 seperate transit lines intersecting at MCC. And maybe a few decades from now, the Bloor Subway line gets extended to MCC and we can create a proper Transit Station. But MCC has a lot of potential for all of this. It will take decades but it will get there. Maybe in 40 years or so.

There will almost certainly be something happening in connecting Line 10 with the rest of the TTC system. I think it’s a toss-up as to whether Line 2 or Line 5 will be extended into MCC first, but I could see there being a focus on the Line 5 Pearson extension, so it’s possible (in my view) that we could see a Line 2 MCC extension happen first.

Interestingly, in the GGH Transit plan, Kipling is shown as being significantly closer to Line 10 than Renforth, when the opposite is actually true (rough measurements of 8.69km vs 7.95km, as the crow flies). I know these maps are never scaled properly, but I wonder if this could be showing their underlying intentions…

 

[cheerio]

Maybe it’s just me but I don’t really see a line 2 extension to MCC happening any time soon since Dundas BRT and Milton GO 2WAD expansion would provide all the ‘useful’ coverage for Mississauga between Hurontario and Toronto borders, such that a line 2 extension would be redundant.

I’m not sure what a line 2 extension into Sauga accomplishes that DBRT and Milton GO wouldn’t already accomplish. The only exception being service to MCC, but extending line 2 solely for MCC doesn’t really make sense to me.

I think a line 5 extension would be more useful (and more easily constructable considering the transitway is already in place for such an expansion). Now getting the density and ridership to build a business case for such an expansion is another conversation entirely lol …

 

[superior_chromatic]

This isn't really the thread for it, but the 2022 Greater Golden Horseshoe Plan is of interest to the conversation about potential Line 2 or 5 extensions to MCC.

Neither are taken up in this plan. As far as MCC is concerned the most interesting idea here is a notional "East-West Cross-Regional Connection" from Burlington to Oshawa that runs along the alignment (roughly) of the 403 and the 407.

That said, the Midtown GO Line isn't on this plan. Nor does it reflect recent announcements re: the missing link and corridor acquisitions. If there's more clues to Line 2 or 5 extensions into MCC, I'd be happy to see them...

 

[ProjectEnd]

Triumph of bad policy over logic. MCC has very bad transit connectivity. Squeeze zoning everywhere else so that high density is only permitted in places selected for the vanity of former mayors, not where those people can readily be served by higher order transit.

It's poorly located for regional transit. Cooksville or Port Credit would have been better places for high density.

Cooksville:

Cooksville TOC (East Site) | UrbanToronto

Cooksville TOC (East Site), Toronto by 1, Arup

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and

Cooksville TOC (West Site) | UrbanToronto

Cooksville TOC (West Site), Toronto by 1, Arup

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and

3085 Hurontario Street | UrbanToronto

3085 Hurontario Street, Toronto by 1

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and

Connecting Cooksville | UrbanToronto

Connecting Cooksville, Toronto by 1, SvN

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Yes, none of the above is going ahead in the near future, but when compared to American cities entitling "TOD" around their commuter rail, this is a demented amount of density for a station that gets 10 trains in the morning and 10 trains in the evening.