If you don't think the ridership to STC justifies a subway extension, then you're basically saying there's no subways to be built in Toronto at all (never mind the Spadina extension, hem hem)
My idea of a Hurontario subway? Get your reading comprehension cap on drum118. I dismissed a subway as unneeded and I specifically stated all we need is an LRT. I've posted many times about how Mississauga would take any LRVs that Ford doesn't want. Pay attention drum118.
The numbers are there for the SRT considering it hasn't the capacity to carry the real number since it lacks equipment in the first as well breaking down, especially in the winter.
The DRL should be a subway from Don Mills and Sheppard as it will intersect the ridership before it reaches Yonge. The numbers have been there since 1953 and most reports since then to the 70’s have said the same thing.
The Yonge Line should go north as far as Steeles for Yonge since the ridership north on Yonge only justify a BRT now, let along LRT. Once GO is upgraded to all day service, running every 15 minutes and this includes the existing infrastructure, will not need a subway for a least a 100 years due to the density between Steeles and Highway 7. It may get to Clark, but beyond that, no density unless you bulldoze the area 100%.
Bloor only needs to go to Cloverdale as that is the best place for a transit hub, cut down on TTC deadheading, room for TTC to house buses better as well connect to the 905 systems. There are already plans to redevelop that area for high density now.
I love too see a subway to Sq One, but the ridership is not there now nor 50 years, until Dundas is total redeveloped for high density from the blight it is now. That is the only route for one to Hurontario and the to Sq One. I support LRT on Dundas, but again, an BRT can do the job first.
I have a real time trying to justify a subway on Eglinton due to the density along it even for the central core, but the centre core has to be underground due to road restriction. I am on record for taking the tunnel section from Keele to Jane due to the various conditions between these points. Anything west of here will see next to no ridership since there is no density there in the first place, other than feeder bus routes and the airport that can be handled by LRT along the north side and off Eglinton. Going east, again no density other than bus feeders and can be handled by LRT.
Spadina has, is and will be a waste for your life time and it is in the wrong location in the first place.
The 1972 plan would had been one of the best plans for this city as it cover all areas of it then.