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So the Lawrence East bus would go to Laird instead. Further not requiring a Leslie stop.
IIRC it's only a stop instead of a station though. @ $100M + i'd agree it's ridiculous to build an underground station, but for the additional cost of a stop it seems reasonable. The NE corner could certainly be redeveloped over the coming years, and the stop would likely help with that
The stretch between leslie and don mills isnt' going to be grade separated?
The cost of a Leslie station is the lack of a grade separated line through to Don Mills which will limit full service to there, massive construction disruption at the launch shaft, and interference with traffic at the Leslie intersection which has a large number of left turning vehicles.
And this is all thanks to Metrolinx's weakness and rush to appease a few non transit riders who wanted to use the stop to increase their own property values.
So if there are so few of them why appease them? I mean what if people came out to say that Avenue Road needed a stop or Spadina. Then what? Would they then see who has the most people coming out and give them the stop?
Toronto Subway LRT map has a long way to go when you compare it to other cities.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_eye/..._quest_to_standardize_the_world_s_subway.html
Age and development wise, those cities would be like great-grandfathers whereas Toronto is a young adolescent. Patience is a virtue.
Age and development wise, those cities would be like great-grandfathers whereas Toronto is a young adolescent. Patience is a virtue.
No offense, but a better analogy is that Toronto is more like a malnourished child in a developing world where each passing time would only make things worse....
Population of cities in 1900:
Old City of Toronto: 208,000
What is now the City of Toronto, the “416″: 238,000
Island of Manhattan: 1.8 million
New York City: 3.4 million
Paris: Over 3 million
Greater London: Over 6 million