scar_resident
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There a number of factors why transit is overcrowded. The universities and George Brown college downtown have increased the number of students enrolled dramatically over the last decade. Toronto has finally recovered the jobs lost since 1983, the return of these jobs are mostly located in the downtown core, and the increase in population in downtown Toronto (south of Bloor to the lake, west of the don to Dufferin).
If you live at Bathurst and Fort York, you are not going to regularly walk to work at College Park especially in January. In 2006 (Transit Tomorrow Survey) 38% of people in Ward 20 used transit on their morning journey compared to 30% walk or cycle. Ward 28 43% transit, 25% walk cycle. Ward 19, 33% transit 23% walk cycle. Ward 27 is the closest in balance 30% transit 29% walk cycle. Outside of these %, people drove or were a passenger in a car. When 2011 is release we can see how much it shifted, but people generally don't change their habits. I wouldn't expect to see anything more than a 4% max shift.
If you live at Bathurst and Fort York, you are not going to regularly walk to work at College Park especially in January. In 2006 (Transit Tomorrow Survey) 38% of people in Ward 20 used transit on their morning journey compared to 30% walk or cycle. Ward 28 43% transit, 25% walk cycle. Ward 19, 33% transit 23% walk cycle. Ward 27 is the closest in balance 30% transit 29% walk cycle. Outside of these %, people drove or were a passenger in a car. When 2011 is release we can see how much it shifted, but people generally don't change their habits. I wouldn't expect to see anything more than a 4% max shift.