No VIVA south of RHC makes sense but it's a dumb move having all those other routes end at Clark instead of Steeles. So a good portion of York residents will then lose easier access to Yonge/Steeles and connecting TTC/YRT routes and will be forced to take the subway at Clark or get on an extra bus to go one station south.

Kinda similar to how it's played out at York U and the subway there.
 
chasedp said:
No VIVA south of RHC makes sense but it's a dumb move having all those other routes end at Clark instead of Steeles. So a good portion of York residents will then lose easier access to Yonge/Steeles and connecting TTC/YRT routes and will be forced to take the subway at Clark or get on an extra bus to go one station south.

Kinda similar to how it's played out at York U and the subway there.
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It depends, the whole extension would require a rethink of the entire YRT network down there, so I doubt that we won't have some sort of bus service along Hilda there. I doubt this list is final and is more of an idea list.
 
toronto647 said:
P3 Market Update will be held today at 12:00 p.m. with Minister of Infrastructure. The Yonge North Extension will likely be a topic of discussion. Link below if you are interested in attending.
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... And Metrolinx is doing another open house, no doubt filled with all sorts of info about why Royal Orchard residents should chill, coming up on the 20th...

https://twitter.com/x/status/1448398109168578565
 
YNSE mentioned in the IO CEO's letter and the latest market update.

October 2021 Market Update

The October 2021 Market Update affirms Ontario’s historic commitment to modernizing the province’s public assets, including hospitals, highways, public transit, children’s treatment centres, courthouses and correctional facilities.
www.infrastructureontario.ca www.infrastructureontario.ca
 
Allandale25 said:
YNSE mentioned in the IO CEO's letter and the latest market update.

October 2021 Market Update

The October 2021 Market Update affirms Ontario’s historic commitment to modernizing the province’s public assets, including hospitals, highways, public transit, children’s treatment centres, courthouses and correctional facilities.
www.infrastructureontario.ca www.infrastructureontario.ca
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IO P3 Market Update October 2021 - YNSE delayed according to it

 
toronto647 said:
IO P3 Market Update October 2021 - YNSE delayed according to it

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I think you missed the important part which isn't that it's delayed, per se, but that "Contract packaging options (including delivery models and timelines) continue to be explored, with a view to considering how a) Tunnels and b) Stations, Rail and Systems might be optimally delivered."
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The city of Markham has released an interim report on Land Use and Built Form Study on the Yonge Street corrider surrounding each station.
Here's the documents if you wish to read further into it; lots of great details and has a detailed vision of how Markham wants the neighbourhoods to look like including examples to other developments in Toronto. https://pub-markham.escribemeetings.com/filestream.ashx?DocumentId=43413
https://pub-markham.escribemeetings.com/filestream.ashx?DocumentId=43414

Some key information and images;

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StealthyArrow said:
The city of Markham has released an interim report on Land Use and Built Form Study on the Yonge Street corrider surrounding each station.
Here's the documents if you wish to read further into it; lots of great details and has a detailed vision of how Markham wants the neighbourhoods to look like including examples to other developments in Toronto. https://pub-markham.escribemeetings.com/filestream.ashx?DocumentId=43413
https://pub-markham.escribemeetings.com/filestream.ashx?DocumentId=43414

Some key information and images;

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These are some very impressive plans.
 
StealthyArrow said:
The city of Markham has released an interim report on Land Use and Built Form Study on the Yonge Street corrider surrounding each station.
Here's the documents if you wish to read further into it; lots of great details and has a detailed vision of how Markham wants the neighbourhoods to look like including examples to other developments in Toronto. https://pub-markham.escribemeetings.com/filestream.ashx?DocumentId=43413
https://pub-markham.escribemeetings.com/filestream.ashx?DocumentId=43414

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Kewl it's like the 2000s again. Especially looking forward to the Langstaff plan, which is a tad behind schedule.
 
toronto647 said:
Finally a positive story by TVO

www.tvo.org

The case against the case for delaying Toronto’s subway plans | TVO.org

OPINION: The idea that the pandemic should make the province rethink its plan to build more subways in Toronto is flawed. Subways were a good idea before COVID-19 — and they’ll be a good idea after it.
www.tvo.org www.tvo.org
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It helps to read the article it's responding to, which seems like a bit more of a thought experiment than an actual argument. The TVO writers are pretty sharp and the idea that we should give up on public transit - especially projects that were needed decades ago and which are now, finally, on the verge of realization - seems amazingly dumb to me. You can never know the future and there's no doubt COVID has changed some things but I think this response nails the real issues: the region is still growing, people will still be living in these places, where we build infrastructure is what drives the shape of our cities etc.

I don't know how long it will take transit to rebound to pre-pandemic levels but that's OK. It means the YNSE can be built without constant worries about Yonge-Bloor capacity! Fewer complaints about getting on at Lawrence and not being able to find a seat! If more people are working from home, that might open enough room, if only for a little bit, for more transit-oriented development around stations that creates new riders. At the end of the day, I understand why someone looks at transit today and is concerned it's more than a blip but there's too much riding on these projects to "pause" them; not when the YNSE and OL could/should easily have been built 25 years ago.
 
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