toonderly
Active Member
I saw Miller and thought of Mayor David even though I knew it was Premiers. I had forgotten about Frank Miller, my mind skates right from Bill Davis to David Peterson.
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I saw Miller and thought of Mayor David even though I knew it was Premiers. I had forgotten about Frank Miller, my mind skates right from Bill Davis to David Peterson.
jmi22
Active Member
Apologies for the mix-up, I thought we were talking about former Mayor David Miller, not former Premier Frank Miller who I just learned existed lol
ssiguy2
Senior Member
I think there will be MASSIVE political pressure to get this line up and running before the World Cup and ditto for speeding up Finch. Even so, if Finch doesn't make the route within 25 minutes at a maximum, it is a complete waste of money. These lines of once TransitCity were advertised as bringing RAPID transit to all areas of Toronto and Torontonians should hold City Hall to it's word. This line could make this journey in 20 minutes IF the City wants it.
CapitalSeven
Senior Member
He was such a non-entity, even those of us who were of voting age when he floated through have mostly forgotten him.
MisterF
Senior Member
The fact that he shares a name with a Hollywood director probably doesn't help.
zang
Senior Member
Fantastic comic book writer/artist and part time meh director.
jmi22
Active Member
20 minutes is not possible just due to station spacing (line 2, our fastest RT line, does a similar stretch in 40ish minutes) but just getting to the projected 39min run time that the whole business case was predicated on would be miraculous at this point
GenerationLee
Senior Member
There's many a Miller out there, more than meets the eye.
Anyways, I guess we're truly at a wait and see period now regarding this line.
christiesplits
Senior Member
A Crosstown construction worker was injured and hospitalized this afternoon near Jane. Appears to be non-life threatening.
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Bojaxs
Senior Member
Will David Miller be at the ribbon cutting ceremony for Line 5? He should be. He's responsible for this project. It was his idea. He should be one of the first to ride it. The whole length of it... and then back the other way.
He was noticeably absent at the Line 6 grand opening. I guess he's just too big for Toronto now? He's probably got more important things to do.
He was noticeably absent at the Line 6 grand opening. I guess he's just too big for Toronto now? He's probably got more important things to do.
ssiguy2
Senior Member
They should get rid of 5 of these stops. 18 stops on a 10.3 km line is ridiculous. Remember this was suppose to be RAPID transit. The stop on Yonge between Eg & Law is 1.5km and they manage so what make the people along Finch, and ditto for oncoming Eglinton, so damn precious? The fewer the stops the easier it is to make sure the TSP works better to boot. IF the City decides that it wants to put transit riders ahead of drivers then they can turn this slow boat to China lemon into lemonade. If they don't, the riders of Toronto will find alternate ways of getting around and they can kiss any further LRT goodbye not only from Queen's Park but also the general public who don't want to see their faster bus being replaced for nothing more than a ribbon cutting ceremony.
jordanmkasla2009
Active Member
if the original plans were followed through with Line 1 would have had a station built in between Lawrence and Eglinton at Glencairn/Yonge and in between Lawrence and York Mills at Yonge Blvd / Glen Echo. Instead they decided to parallel the subway with the 97 Yonge bus to save money
urbanclient
Active Member
Global best practices for subways in the suburbs is wide stop spacing 2 or more km between stations (which is what the Line 1 extension was at the time it was built). It's entirely normal for buses to serve as local transit and feed subways in the suburbs. Even in a dense secondary CBD, the 97 runs with plenty of ridership through North York city centre, Sheppard to Finch, even though there are 3 stations along a 2 km stretch.
JSF-1
Active Member
It wasn't so much a means to save money as much as it was the TTC and Metro couldn't afford it after the residents around York Mills threw a fit when the TTC proposed having the subway cross the Hogs Hollow Ravine on a viaduct and York Mills be an elevated station. This blew up the budget and caused a cascading affect down the line since in order to reach the bottom of the ravine underground the line now had to start its decent further south thus killing the idea of a stop at Glen Echo and I believe it may have also required Lawrence Station be built deeper. The stop near Briar Hill was then cut due to the budget issue.
KhalilHeron
Active Member
I heard a talk he was giving a few years ago to promote a new book on the climate crisis, but he didn't talk about the book. He just went on and on about Transit city and how it was visionary and so much better than the current provincial projects.