JoEddie7677
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there will be no Ellesmere GO RER stationFor those who want to go downtown, having the Lawrence and Ellesmore GO RER stations can be useful... if the fares or transfer conditions are right.
there will be no Ellesmere GO RER stationFor those who want to go downtown, having the Lawrence and Ellesmore GO RER stations can be useful... if the fares or transfer conditions are right.
there will be no Ellesmere GO RER station
Can't have anything pulling trade away from that 3.4 billion dollar subway and bus stop!there will be no Ellesmere GO RER station
There is no SmartTrack. It's a marketing gimmick. It's GO RER with a few more stops in Toronto. That's all. I agree that the proposed stops on the Stoufville GO RER line at Lawrence and Ellesmere as not needed. The location is not ideal and they had very poor ridership as RT stations. What would be more useful is to cut those stations from GO RER/aka SmartTrack east and add a station at Lawrence on the BD extension. If we are already building a tunnel, for safety reasons and for the hospital there a station would be useful. That would have been a better compromise.
Back to Sheppard, given the lack of support politically for Sheppard, the best they can hope for is a BRT at this point. The LRT is dead and not going to happen. I suspect if the Tories win they may push for a subway extension but unless they provide funds it wont go anywhere. Maybe they could get funds to extend Sheppard east to Agincourt station as there is a large condo development planned just south of there and it would be deemed a subway for Scarborough, plus it offers a network connectivity advantage with the GO RER/SmartTrack. It also would serve the Consumers road business area, which could densify nicely with a station at Vic Park/Sheppard.
There is no SmartTrack. It's a marketing gimmick. It's GO RER with a few more stops in Toronto.
When is the last time we heard Mr. Tory mention SmartTrack? The branding seems dead to me.
The last new Go Transit station announcement. It's not dead, there's just not much news about it lately. My prediction is he'll unroll SmartTrack for the next election though, and just push for some fare integration scheme now that the new stations have been formalized.
Smartrack has to exist in some form until he gets thru next election for his own optical purposes.
What if Horwath were to win?This all assumes Wynne wins in 2018. If Brown wins then all bets are off and transit funding will likely get starved in favour of highway spending.
This all assumes Wynne wins in 2018. If Brown wins then all bets are off and transit funding will likely get starved in favour of highway spending.