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Toronto Party Transportation Plan

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I felt we need a new thread as this is a full plan


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Subway
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Support for the Spadina and Yonge Subway northern extensions as proposed.
Completion of the Sheppard Subway east to the Scarborough Town Centre and west to Downsview
Construction of a ‘U’-shaped Downtown Relief Subway Line along Queen Street stretching to Eglinton Avenue and Jane Street in the west and Eglinton Avenue and Don Mills Road in the east
Extension of the Bloor Subway west to Sherway Gardens
Extension of the Bloor-Danforth Subway east, replacing the Scarborough Rapid Transit Line to the Scarborough Town Centre, and extended further to the Toronto Zoo (the Scarborough Subway).
Construction of an Eglinton Subway from Pearson International Airport to Kennedy station on the Bloor-Danforth Subway line in Scarborough

Roads
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Two new tunnelled expressways within existing utility corridors:

Highway 400 Extension replacing Black Creek Drive and extended south in a tunnel under the Georgetown GO rail corridor to the Gardiner Expressway at Strachan Avenue, as a new airport link route.
Highway 448 along the wide Gatineau hydro corridor across Scarborough from the Don Valley Parkway south of Eglinton Avenue East to Highway 401 at Morningside Avenue, acting as a Gardiner Expressway eastern extension and relieving the heaviest traffic congestion on the Don Valley Parkway north of Eglinton Avenue East
Improvements to existing expressways:

Rename Allen Road as Allen Expressway and construct improved ramps to the Allen Expressway at Eglinton Avenue, Lawrence Avenue, Transit Road and Sheppard Avenue.
Eventual replacement of the elevated Gardiner Expressway with a new cable-stayed viaduct above the Lakeshore rail corridor and Union Station, and convert Lake Shore Boulevard into a grand tree-lined waterfront street

Filling in gaps in the arterial street system including minor road extensions and new bridges to make broken streets continuous for traffic, buses and bicycles
A Highway through lower Scarborough might be controversial

Bicycles and Others
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Bicycles

A new 100-kilometre network of continuous well-lit off-road bicycle trails cleared of snow in the winter

Technologieshttp://www.gettorontomoving.ca/Technologies.html


New technologies to improve transport safety, convenience, efficiency and the environment including traffic management, lighting and subway efficiency.

Funding

Using private finance initiatives (PFI) to provide funding for construction.

For businesses concerned about transportation in Toronto and the future of Toronto in general, please follow this link: Save Your Business

Click on the image below to download the 20-page detailed report outlining the 'Get Toronto Moving' transportation


http://www.gettorontomoving.ca/Technologies.html
Toronto is blessed with being a lakefront city with a wonderful waterfront. However, the downtown part of this waterfront is not being utilized properly. New condominium towers, wide railway tracks on a berm and the ageing elevated Gardiner Expressway help to cut the city off from the waterfront.

Traffic gridlock has become part of the daily lives of many frustrated commuters who enter downtown Toronto, coming from the west and north-east areas of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). More than 200,000 vehicles use the Gardiner Expressway every day, though its original design capacity was only for 70,000. Additionally, traffic gridlock is increasingly becoming bi-directional during rush hour, due to people living in downtown and working in other areas of the GTA.

All four modes of transportation must be acknowledged during the revitalization process of the waterfront.
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Thoughts? Praise? Criticism?
 
1. The cost of that plan is huge. We don't know how to fund the subway network alone. How are they going to fund both the extensive subway network and those expensive tunneled / cabled expressways?

2. Any new expressway within 416 will bring only a marginal improvement at best, or likely none at all. The cars will get into the downtown core faster, but where will they go next? The streets in the old parts of the town are not designed for the today's level of car ownership. Basically, all those new highways will do is shifting the points of heaviest gridlock closer to the core.

Building new highways within 416 is not cost-effective. If this kind of money is available, they should be used to build subways, or LRT in the outer parts of 416.
 
In Tokyo, a small town in Asia, they have small freeways with only 2 lanes in each direction which take up little space and charge tolls. They have a lot of transit though. I'm not suggesting that transit could solve all of Toronto's transportation problems.... no wait, I am suggesting that.

Why do we need more freeways in this city? Where will these new travellers park and how will the already full downtown streets be widened to handle an increase in cars? Any proposal for more lanes of freeway into the city doesn't deal with the fact most downtown streets can't handle much more than they already do, and in that way make no sense at all.
 
The Viaduct plan alone is a complete non starter. I cannot see how they are going to squeeze the on/off ramps for York/Yonge, particularly given the new development in those areas. Electrify and deck over the tracks through Union, and make all trains be electic (or dual mode).
 
This is a classic conservative gambit - attempt to build more highways by proposing more transit. Boring and irrelevant.

The highway funding is naturally then announced first, and once construction has began, the entire plan is "re-evaluated", with the transit components being "deferred until more funding can be made available".

The only time the 'in tandum' approach seems to work is when the transit and highway are physically intertwined in the same project (ex: Allen Expressway and Spadina Subway).
 
This is a joke, right? Could somebody please explain the difference between an elevated freeway and a viaduct? And, if you want to bury a freeway, why not bury the Gardiner and Rosco Rossi along with it? Sell the space above to condo developers to help finance it, it's already lined with condo towers anyway.
 
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since those maps don't pay attention to what actually exists (just a bunch of lines drawn on a map), i thought i'd show everyone my map for toronto subway expansion:

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This is a classic conservative gambit - attempt to build more highways by proposing more transit. Boring and irrelevant.

it's like a pill with a poison center and a vitamin exterior.
 

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