sixrings
Senior Member
My last post was Monday and had nothing to do with you. Now I know you're sensitive but if you're this sensitive you may need actual help. I'm sorry I have been such a detriment to your mental well being. Sincere apologize.
I think smart track is still a hard sell as there are so many unknowns to it like what route it will take, how much it will cost, what fare structure it will use. I don't think it can sevive if John Tory doesn't get elected or if there is nothing to show in his next term in office.Smarttrack has a bit of a case for the bump in priority. But it could still get pounded in the election for the optics of collusion and the fact Smartrack is a fraction of what it was sold make It an easy target.
I think smart track is still a hard sell as there are so many unknowns to it like what route it will take, how much it will cost, what fare structure it will use. I don't think it can sevive if John Tory doesn't get elected or if there is nothing to show in his next term in office.
I think smart track is still a hard sell as there are so many unknowns to it like what route it will take, how much it will cost, what fare structure it will use. I don't think it can sevive if John Tory doesn't get elected or if there is nothing to show in his next term in office.
I still don't understand what the difference between Smart track and GO RER is.
Me either. I think the problem is also there are so many promises about both of them that nobody really gets what either is. Like for example they keep talking about TTC prices for smart track with all of the studies done but there is no actual indication of who will run it and if that will actually be the caseI still don't understand what the difference between Smart track and GO RER is.
Me either. I think the problem is also there are so many promises about both of them that nobody really gets what either is. Like for example they keep talking about TTC prices for smart track with all of the studies done but there is no actual indication of who will run it and if that will actually be the case
As much as I dislike him I would vote for him over a Ford any day.Agree, Smarttrack lives only with Tory as Mayor. Saying that it will not be an easy feat to unseat Tory in the next election.
The problem with that one there isn't anything to back it up other then a study that was done that people would use it if they charged TTC prices. I'm not sure if Metrolinx would really want to run something like that if they couldn't care by distance. Another thing if you make all of RER/ Smart track in Toronto TTC fares do you do the same for Go transit or does it remain with zones in Toronto.The promise of a TTC fare I believe and station locations
As much as I dislike him I would vote for him over a Ford any day.
The problem with that one there isn't anything to back it up other then a study that was done that people would use it if they charged TTC prices. I'm not sure if Metrolinx would really want to run something like that if they couldn't care by distance. Another thing if you make all of RER/ Smart track in Toronto TTC fares do you do the same for Go transit or does it remain with zones in Toronto.
If all that comes out of Smart Track is better RER service for the 416 and full TTC fare integration, it'll be more useful than anything GO has done of the 416 in decades.
They need a station on Lawrence. I can't see how they can cancel the RER station and not add the subway station.
They say that stopping at Lawrence East will slow down the service and reduce the ridership by making it less attractive. As if all trains have to stop at Lawrence East.
In the lead-up to a crucial vote during which city council flip-flopped on transit plans to approve a multibillion-dollar subway in Scarborough, Jennifer Keesmaat went on the warpath.
In July 2013, the progressive chief planner — whose departure after five years at the helm was announced on Monday — was trying to make it known to anyone who would listen that a seven-stop light-rail line the province had already agreed to pay for, and the city had already approved, was still the better option.
Hundreds of pages of emails obtained by the Star through freedom of information requests over the past two years show how Keesmaat became the subway’s strongest critic on staff and tried — but ultimately failed — to prevent what some have called the biggest boondoggle of Toronto transit politics.
The number of reasons why the three-stop subway was a bad idea added up, Keesmaat agreed in one such email, to an “embarrassment of riches.”
The push to build a subway in Scarborough was one of the most controversial projects advanced under Keesmaat’s tenure at city hall, one that has complicated her legacy as a progressive city-builder. A compromise plan she later moved under Mayor John Tory today continues to unravel.
This is the untold story of how she tried behind the scenes to prevent the subway from being approved in the first place...
I still don't understand what the difference between Smart track and GO RER is
Me either. I think the problem is also there are so many promises about both of them that nobody really gets what either is. Like for example they keep talking about TTC prices for smart track with all of the studies done but there is no actual indication of who will run it and if that will actually be the case.