Cedarbrae isn't on the Transit City grid...Lawrence East would make a lot of sense as an LRT line, though.
You think a bus route with over 100 individual stops can be replaced by limited stoppage streetcar? LRT works on Eglinton because stops are already spaced far apart (APPROX. every 400 metres). A stop at Markham & Eglinton would be a stone's throw away from Cedarbrae Mall.
Not everything has to be directly accessed to be reasonably served.
UTSC just isn't that big...York U is at 5 least times larger, and even Seneca and Humber have quite a few more students. A subway line to UTSC would not be well-used.
There's ample room for the UTSC to grow and expand inclusive of a brand new wing under construction right now that'll house 1000 more students. So collectively with Centennial College Ellesmere Campus, over 11, 000 students are concentrated in the Morningside/Ellesmere area. But that's not even the big picture. UTSC, effectively the easternmost subway stop, could potentially be a transit hub for routes extending into Malvern/Morningside Hts, the Zoo, even Pickering (creating better interregional solidarity with 905 east).
No one is discounting the potential of subways at Seneca or Humber, but you've said so yourself, subways can't go everywhere. For you to sit behind a computer screen and mock me for a reasonable suggestion, when you're bringing up a subway line to Highway 27 and Finch, is maniacal.
A subway to UTSC won't be any worse for wear than the hyper inflated, near-empty trains traversing the Sheppard line on a daily basis. If UTSC is under populated maybe it's due to poor transit options for students and teachers to utilize. Why do you think we scuffed at that ridiculous U-Pass proposal? Putting 2 and 2 together yet?
That's a ridiculous figure, and there's no reason tunneling has to be that expensive. There just simply isn't. I've discussed in another thread how the TTC vastly inflates the cost of subway projects. Beyond that, you have to tunnel to get the benefits of the DRL.
And it's that inflation I fear will subtract from other city-wide projects. I've yet to hear how one goes about ensuring that a certain number of funds are set aside and safeguarded in the event of other projects wildly spinning out of control and go over budget. The DRL as a subway is great if it's limited and concentrated to a specific area. The further from the core it goes, the more outrageous expenditures get, the less riders you'll see at specific points en route (think YUS north of Eglinton West in contrast to south of Bloor) and less is the opportunity to break even via cost recovery.
Thanks socialwoe, for both missing the point and telling me how I ride transit. First of all, the whole point is to show how much slower the Light Rail is than the subway. Secondly, I do ride Spadina all the time from Front to Bloor, and even more frequently from Front to Harbord or Sussex to go to U of T. It's a pretty terrible trip. I have to budget at least 30 minutes, and I'm still often late.
You easy well could've said "Secondly, I do ride Islington South all the time from Lakeshore to Bloor" or "Secondly I do ride Bathurst all the time from Queens Quay to Bloor". See what I just did there
? Regardless of the presence of adjacent subways there'll always be jobs that are best suited to surface transit. You comparing a LRT DRL to the 510 is hogwash. The rail corridor doesn't have traffic signals that I'm aware of and last I checked it only takes 9 minutes on the Georgetown train to get from Union to Bloor.
Anyway, a whole group of us are strongly advocating that the DRL be built as soon as possible, with the subway technology.
Perhaps I'd be right up there with you if you people knew how to respond to my posts in a civil, egalitarian manner. Probing questions are meant to clarify discrepancies one might have with certain aspects of a proposal, not to cause trouble (just thought you should know for future reference).
PS: By the way, who's socialwoe? Was he wrongfully ostracized too?
