Paleo
Active Member
Take it from someone who lives South of Front: The majority of people who own a car is because of groceries and long distance driving. Quite a few dont own a car and use the TTC when its practable. Check out the streetcars along Queens Quay during rush hour: There aboustely packed. Running it on Front or South of it would do a ton for relieving the pressure on the streetcars, as well as adding a ton more potential customers who walk or take a taxi to work. Also add in the trip generator that the Skydome and if possible Exhibition would add and it just makes sense to do.
Am I the only one that sees this type of suggestion as madness? We're talking about providing an alternative to commuters to get to work downtown without using Yonge (primary function), play and shopping (secondary).
Now there are people that would suggest putting it even further south, south of Front even, just to bring service to a few condos on the waterfront? The same condos which are or will be served by LRT operated in PROW? Can they not operate as feeders into the DRL like every other north-south bus that empties into Bloor?
To relieve the Queens Quay streetcar? Why? What? On the list of streetcar lines that need relief did someone forget to put King or Queen on that list?