Prometheus The Supremo
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it's too bad they didn't announce any plans to connect the sheppard subway west to the spadina line.
http://www.toronto.ca/involved/projects/sheppard_east_lrt/index.htm
Timing is unsurprisingly coincidental.
I'm thinking more importantly is just the Don Mills LRT. The Finch east section is basically an early part of Don Mills, so I think figuring out how that transfer will work is basically going to solve your problem. Hopefully it will be convenient like the Sheppard East sounds like it will be.I'd still wait to see what they are going to do with the Finch West LRT - just in case.
Will it - will the Finch East LRT to Don Mills just be a precursor to an extension further east?The transfer that matters far, far more than interlining Don Mills and Sheppard is on Finch East from the LRT to the bus (which is still incredibly busy east of Don Mills), but the city's desire for a Sheppard subway bypass costing as much as a subway extension will take what is arguably the TTC's only functional and reliable major arterial bus route and throw it under the bus.
Will it - will the Finch East LRT to Don Mills just be a precursor to an extension further east?
Will it - will the Finch East LRT to Don Mills just be a precursor to an extension further east?
Finch East LRT makes a world of sense more than Sheppard East LRT since more trip generators line up with that corridor than the latter: Seneca College, Bridletowne, Woodside Square, Browne's Cormers, Morningside Hts and Malvern Town Ctr. Aside from Agincourt I can't say the same for Sheppard. I really wish someone in authority would push for a combined Finch/Sheppard LRT whereby the mid-section's along Sheppard but the outer portions (both west and east are along Finch). I'd even go for a Sheppard West LRT to make such a thing possible.
This is pretty much the only thing that I dislike about the Sheppard East-Finch West plan right now. The Finch East portion will probably do more harm that good. Don Mills LRT will eventually be there, but extending Finch West to Don Mills will totally kill Finch East, a bus route that's doing completely fine right now, and doesn't need any meddling with it.Changing transit on Finch East by adding well over a billion dollars worth of transit infrastructure is unnecessary. The bus works and can continue to work very well, particularly if simple Rocket service is added: spending all that money to replace it for the sake of replacing buses is incredibly silly when there's plenty of other places that do need something other than regular buses in mixed traffic. Forcing Finch East riders to transfer to a pointless LRT line for about 5km would be a fairly dramatic reduction in service quality, especially when you factor in the substantial reduction in frequency over this stretch. Even if they have dubiously thought-out plans about running LRT along Finch East at some point, how many years will the transfer stick around? Transfer City, indeed.
Changing transit on Finch East by adding well over a billion dollars worth of transit infrastructure is unnecessary. The bus works and can continue to work very well, particularly if simple Rocket service is added: spending all that money to replace it for the sake of replacing buses is incredibly silly when there's plenty of other places that do need something other than regular buses in mixed traffic. Forcing Finch East riders to transfer to a pointless LRT line for about 5km would be a fairly dramatic reduction in service quality, especially when you factor in the substantial reduction in frequency over this stretch. Even if they have dubiously thought-out plans about running LRT along Finch East at some point, how many years will the transfer stick around? Transfer City, indeed.
Browne's Cormers? You should really put down the MapArt book and go out and see the actual city you're pretending to be knowledgable about.