TTC has had no problem providing service outside it's boundaries when the local municipality has paid for it. If the local muncipality doesn't want to pay, it's not going to get service. Not sure why that's a tough concept.
It's not a tough concept that you pay for something you get for something.
Providing fee-for-service was not my point. I didn't say the TTC doesn't provide service outside its borders but that they don't look beyond the borders or care about them or perceive them except as fences.
What I was talking about, if it wasn't clear, was the need to have an actual regional transit network, and the TTC's lack of interest in same (unless, as you point out, someone pays them to cross the border a metre or two).
The point, again if it wasn't clear, is that even if the TTC doesn't cross borders (unless, as you note, someone pays them to) PEOPLE are crossing borders all the time, every day, every way. So there's kind of a disconnect there. I'm not sure why that's a tough concept.
So, the point, who pays for what aside, is that Metrolinx (IMHO) is showing the regional thinking that we need to address our actual problems while the TTC is narrowly concenered with only what it perceives to be its own problems.
If you want to take the position that it's not TORONTO'S problem what people do or where they go once they cross Steeles (unless someone wants to pay Toronto to care) and that Andy Byford, Karen Stintz et al have bigger problems than what's going on in York and Peel, that's legitimate, if narrow. My position is that however legitimate that view may be in terms of taxes and funding, it's a generation out of date in terms of on-the-ground reality and that's why Metrolinx exists and why the study cited a few posts ago was a good move forward, while the TTC is just starting to dodder about with its own plans for the DRL, as long as Ford doesn't push through the "priority" lines on Finch and Sheppard first....if it wasn't clear.
Steeles in Toronto is mainly established suburban residential neighbourhoods. Not so simple to intensify like older commercial streets.
Depends where on Steeles. There's high-rise on at least one side of the road at Bavyiew and Don Mills (planned) and there's lots of in-house commercial along Steeles itself. Either way, yes, it makes more sense to intensify on Highway 7. I just think the larger point is that it's easy to see that, but even easier if you look at a map without the arbitrary line drawn at Steeles.