Amy Rose
Active Member
You could make that argument for any transit project in the city - the Eglinton line is a waste of money when we could just make it a transit only street, right? The reality is that rapid transit is needed east-west through downtown, and it's way more necessary than Eglinton or any other Transit City line. You can't satisfy that demand by just improving streetcars. Only high capacity rapid transit is good enough, and that can't be accomodated at street level in a dense urban setting. Ottawa has found that out the hard way and Calgary is finding out the same thing. It has nothing to do with not wanting to take car lanes away - let's not oppose proper rapid transit just to oppose Rob Ford. Any form of at grade transit stopped being adequate for the DRL corridor a long time ago.
The DRL is the perfect candidate for a public-private partnership. Much more likely to succeed than Sheppard.
So from what you are saying is that 4-6 car LRVs can't do the same if not better job than a subway?