scarberiankhatru
Senior Member
^ Those are the kind of spacings that should be the bare minimum for real rapid transit. 800m-1km would still mean virtually everyone is only a few minutes walk away from a station.
500 metres is not subway spacing, particularly when the average suburban bus route already has a practical stop spacing of 400m. There's a few subway stations downtown that are that close together but the platforms would be dangerously overwhelmed if the stops were reduced, and suburban trips would be noticeably slowed by having that many stops. 500m spacing would mean 20 underground stations on the Eglinton line. It'll probably also translate into 400m stop spacing in Scarborough since arterials are 800m apart. Destroying the long-distance potential of these lines is exactly what we should not be doing.
500 metres is not subway spacing, particularly when the average suburban bus route already has a practical stop spacing of 400m. There's a few subway stations downtown that are that close together but the platforms would be dangerously overwhelmed if the stops were reduced, and suburban trips would be noticeably slowed by having that many stops. 500m spacing would mean 20 underground stations on the Eglinton line. It'll probably also translate into 400m stop spacing in Scarborough since arterials are 800m apart. Destroying the long-distance potential of these lines is exactly what we should not be doing.