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Senior Member
If they could extend the Sheppard Line east maybe they could split it off at one point so there's a route that goes to and terminates at STC and another one that continues on without leaving Sheppard Avenue.
Transit City needs to be revised badly, it theoretically could create one of the greatest mass transit networks in North America if they just finish a core TTC subway system with the DRL, an Eglinton TTC subway, and finish the Sheppard TTC subway. LRT everywhere else, but the core can't be "light" it has to be full out subway.
Agreed! Though with an extension being at least a couple of years, if not longer in the future, as long as the Sheppard East LRT line is built so that it doesn't preclude the extension of the subway, then that seems sensible.If they could extend the Sheppard Line east maybe they could split it off at one point so there's a route that goes to and terminates at STC and another one that continues on without leaving Sheppard Avenue.
Do not forget the the seven lines of Transit City are the just the first seven. By the time the last construction ends around 2017, then the next set of LRT/HRT lines and/or extensions should be in the planning stage. We should be ready to begin the next lines once the last ones are finished.
There should be construction for transit each and every year, not just planning and wishing, but real physical construction.
I doubt it. Don't forget that sweeping transportation "solutions" that fail to improve the socio-economic viability of a city (like Transfer City) don't tend to get expanded the next time around. Consider the number of freeways built in New York City after Robert Moses' death.
By all means, kick out Miller and get Mel Lastman back! That went so well the first time.
Yes , lets go back to a time when politicians planned expensive and unnecessary subway lines for the sake of planning subway lines, lets go back to a time when those plans got us nowhere and left the rest of the system in a state of disrepair, lets go back to a time when when politicians had the least concern for transit riders and the most concern for their own pet project subway lines.
Geez, the Sheppard subway cost less than 1 billion, not 10 and the planning and public presentation of the facts bore a little more resemblance to democracy.