Dan416
Senior Member
I was in Munich once, briefly, but didn't use the public transit system. Spent like 5 days in Vienna and thought its system was very good and used it quite often.
^^ Couldn't agree more.
Sheppard should be completed to at least Consumers but, ideally, all the way to Scarborough Town Centre to link three "centres".
As for Eglinton, it has sufficient density or trip-generating desintations to support a subway from the Science Centre to the Airport. But the area that is in most need of subway investment is downtown. An ideal candidate would be a harbourfront-Queen-beaches line The line could be extended to incorporate the DTR idea and be stretched to meet Bloor-Danforth at either end.
I guess downtown and harbourfront voters are so predictable in their voting patterns that we don't have to be courted with election promises or pork-barrel thrifts.
The DRL isn't very complicated. Moreover, other cities of the world are still building subways in their complicated downtowns.Just to touch on this a new subway line in the downtown core will probabaly never happen. It's just too complicated and entails too many competing options.
I was in Munich once, briefly, but didn't use the public transit system. Spent like 5 days in Vienna and thought its system was very good and used it quite often.
The only complicated thing about digging subways in Toronto is wading through the politics of it all.
Not many in the know seriously want a Queen subway, although I'd say the idea still has some merit. A DRL though is easily the next logical and likely subway extension for downtown Toronto. The more the other lines get extended the sooner we'll likely see it. Crazy to think that we almost got it in the 1980s.Lastly would we even want a Queen-downtown subway anyway?