Dan416
Senior Member
Good analysis. I too ultimately favour a B-D extension to STC, but I know that right now both the political climate and the SRT lifespan are not working in its favour.
The difference between the SRT revamp and the subway option is about $500 million, so presumably if the City really wanted to it could finance that difference itself.
The biggest question would then be how quickly can a plan be put together, and can the SRT last that long.
If the line has to be converted anyway, why not convert it to subway since Kennedy would have to be redone for LRT conversion anyway?
Personally I'd prefer a new subway alignment, but if that's too expensive surely converting the line to subway would be cheaper and wouldn't require longer to do than the LRT conversion is already taking.