drum118
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drum118 said "TTC is going to have to look at this short turn before 2015/2016, but some of it maybe solve when the new cars hit the line before then. Even with short turning at Cherry St, you still got issue east of here to deal with before 2016. " While I agree that a new short-turn destination of Broadview would be useful, when you get to Cherry/Sumach streets the distance between King and Queen streets is very short so having eastbound cars short-turning at Cherry is really not too bad.
Don't forget by the time cars start using Cherry St Loop, there will be a development in place to service the new riders in that area. Then service will not start until fall of 2015 or early 2016 for Cherry St and then will be a car every 5 or 10 minutes.
With River City the THC projects starting coming on line this year with new residents, more seats will be used for these new riders to the point, short turning at Church St will have a bigger impact on them. Then you got 3 new development over by Boardview that will be on line this year with one now.
By 2015, you will have a number of new developments coming online or about to other than the ones already noted.
The bottle neck for the King line is between Spadina and Yonge St at this time.
Yes the distance between King & Queen maybe short at Cherry St, its where riders are going/from to/from is the issue for riders in that area.
As for taking cars to Exhibition, will not happen unless there some new thinking within TTC. Having cars going to the Ex for special events would work and would take some load off Bathurst and Dufferin routes.
The bean counters as well keeping drivers on schedule is more important than the needs of a rider based on TTC practices. If these people started to figure what the rider cost is for these short turns as well huge gaps, the cost will be greater than what TTC/bean counter are trying to save with these short turn.