Harper will either be defeated in October, or else he'll be hamstrung by a minority against a Liberal/NDP coalition. Either way, this particular bundle of cash isn't coming in reality any time soon.
That being said, this announcement does open up a conversation (maybe even expectations) of...
Not to mention where the TTC wasn't totally incompetent and chose an all-caps bold sans-serif font for the destination signs on the new subways, rather than an illegible serif mix of caps and lower-case. But I digress.
I have to agree that the new art installation is sort of creepy. I know...
So GO Transit has been practically imploding today.
Due to "an incident involving a VIA train in Markham", there have been enormous delays on both Lakeshore and Stouffville. Lakeshore East has been simply not running any trains for a good few hours now.
On top of that, every single line...
Ah Den, it's great to be here as always. But I don't think the subway is an inevitability. The Scarborough Liberal caucus and some rather noisy councillors can continue to push for, and they will continue to push for it, but unless the city can find the money (lol) or the province is willing to...
I certainly don't see anything beyond minimal improvement as remotely feasible. Given that billions of dollars will be spent in Scarborough (after billions of hours of howling about it) to eliminate a single transfer soon, there's strong evidence for people preferring single-seat rides...
I agree that Consumers would make a far more natural terminus for the Sheppard subway than Don Mills. Whether that one-stop addition alone is worth the almost-billion it would take to tunnel under the 404...I'm not sure. But in an ideal world Consumers would definitely get service.
We also have...
The SMLRT could be rigged into costing approximately the same as the SELRT and will have close to the same ridership as the ECLRT. That's just one example, but I really don't foresee a Sheppard-Downsview connection being of as much use as something on that order of magnitude, good as it may look...
100% with around five minutes to spare...I got most all of Lines 1, 3, and 4 in about a minute and a half (fast typing skills OP) and then spent the rest trying to remember what comes between Runnymede and Keele (spoilers: High Park)
Maybe it's just wishful thinking, but I can't help but think—okay, hope maybe—that this is all still some sort of mix-up. Sheppard being effectively cancelled is really an out-of-left-field move.
I mean, I know and agree that the SELRT was never the perfect plan for Sheppard, but it was...
Some will undoubtedly, regardless of what happens. But I think a majority of Markham commuters will use GO RER as opposed to taking the longer, less comfortable subway (which I will admit is likely cheaper, assuming that Tory's promises of TTC fare on SmartTrack do not pan out; if they do, then...
Would anyone from Markham want to park and ride at the SSE terminus? Fight their way through traffic to Sheppard & McCowan, then park to hop on a slow subway that stops at every Chester and Castle Frank along the Danforth to transfer at Yonge & Bloor and head to their final destination downtown...
Let's all celebrate the go ahead for the FWLRT. I may be a little late to the party here, but I'm always happy when Mammoliti or Karygiannis are denied their tomfoolery.
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If I recall correctly, the plan was/is to run at least some of the trips on the Crosstown to short-turn at Don Mills...though my memory is a little hazy on whether anything has become of that.
While I like your map in general, and specifically for turning the extremely-horizontally-stretched...
I too am worried about Humber Bay Shores. We have such clear and present examples of the danger of isolating high-density communities and starving them of transit in this city that I'm truly disappointed that we continue to overlook what we're doing in South Etobicoke.
That being said, while...