coffey1
Active Member
Just putting it out there. The Sheppard subway is an incomplete line build in the middle of nowhere outperforming some of Chicago's lines with over twice the length and all going downtown.
Sheppard might not be the Yonge line but a full Downsview to STC line wouldnt the epic fail everyone think it would be.
Sheppard East corridor density is growing to the point that when I go on my condo terrace, I can tell where all the Sheppard stations are by looking north.
Downsview area is due to a massive redevelopment project which will add more potential TTC users....or a 2028 Olympic bid making the western extension a no Brainer.
What about Sheppard and the 400 to take some of those cars off our roads? Underground parking + station so drivers can use the Spadina a subway?
Great cities were built this way. If every subway extension were based on the TTC ridership model, London, NYC, Paris wouldn't have a fraction of those subway extensions and stations.
I get the scarcity of available funds but we have a federal government willing to pick up 50% of the tab of any transit infrastructure projects that are shovel ready, giving much needed relief to both municipal and provincial entities. BTW, those 2 entities are having the "adult" talk that transit isn't free and revenue tools are around the corner.
Let's make Toronto great and world class. I was in London and the notion that going to one part of town to the other taking forever is utterly unacceptable. It's utterly shameful that Scarborough and nothern Etobicoke have horrendous travel time to reach their work place. That's not world class.
Let's just build the DRL Long, complete Eglinton east and West then Sheppard once and for all.
LRT on the waterfront, Jane, Islington, Lawrence West, Wilson/York Mills, Dufferin and Steeles.
Cheers. Well said
The divisive Politics needs to stop. Tory has withstood the Anti Suburb Left media flurry attack with poise. I truly look forward to seeing taxes raised and watching him withstand the City's Right media fury that will surely ensue.
If Tory does that and continues to lobby from the Govt levels above this City as a whole will be headed toward a prosperous long term future. The City's future needs him to cut thru the extreme Politics on both sides which have created a polarzing divide and prevented sufficient transit growth.
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