Lone Primate
Active Member
My god Toronto only has one airport, and one that only allows prop planes at that. What's wrong with Toronto?
It elects people like Miller and Sewell.
My god Toronto only has one airport, and one that only allows prop planes at that. What's wrong with Toronto?
How could a "city" that was formed by the amalgamation of a bunch of little hamlets in the 70s be compared to a real city?
What's wrong with that statement? It's true... No great city has massive multi-lane free-flowing arterials with turning lanes everywhere. Every great city has severe congestion and long travel times in its core.
Then you will have more people making connections at intersections, and before you know it, there will be retail popping up at those intersections to get people to come in. Then you will have people walking on sidewalks.
If they want to get people on the sidewalks, they need to stop all the buses from terminating and starting at Square One, and just stay on their streets.
Burnhamthorpe bus should not go into Square one. Same with the Hurontario Bus.
Then you will have more people making connections at intersections, and before you know it, there will be retail popping up at those intersections to get people to come in. Then you will have people walking on sidewalks.
Although to be honest, there are a lot more people walking on the sidewalks of Hurontario around Burnhamthorpe and south of Burnhamthorpe lately.
If you want to create street life in Mississauga, you do it by creating high-density and mixed-use developments, not by inconveniencing transit riders.
There will never be any high desnity or mixed-use development or retail along the streets until there are people walking on the streets first. No business owner would be stupid enough to try such a thing, without first making sure there will be customers.
Forcing bus riders to transfer doesn't create pedestrain traffic, especially if ridership plummets at the same time. Historic neighborhoods like Streetsville seem to be built fine without doing this.
I am glad you are not a transit planner, otherwise there would be only be one bus to Square One and I would have to take 3 different buses to get there.
I am glad you are not a transit planner, otherwise there would be only be one bus to Square One and I would have to take 3 different buses to get there.
Hmmm people in Toronto don't seem to mind doing connections at intersections. Or even people at Hurontario/Dundas for that matter.
I doubt it would be a major inconvenience to most transit users since most people aren't even trying to get to Square One in the first place.
3 Different streets served by MT pass by Square One. Hurontario, Burnhamthorpe and Rathburn. You wont need to take 3 different buses since all 3 roads get you to Square One.
It would be a lot easier to take a bus south on Mavis and go straight to Dundas instead of detouring to Square One and transferring or continuing south.
Because they need to make connections at the bus terminal.Then why is route 19 way busier than 202 during rush hour?