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Nobody justifies a Queen subway by saying King is dead outside business hours. The rationale has always been the cost of digging under King street, and the fact that a Queen alignment is just as good. Both make perfect sense as long as one gets built but insisting on a King subway as if it is...

that philosophy seems to apply universally in Toronto, to the extent that the city tries to please drivers on every single street, even when it makes absolutely no sense, even when it comes at the cost of tens of thousands of transit riders and pedestrians. If put in a better managed city...

I have commented there (as well as Spadina extension). and my point is both lines are a mistake. If Toronto has to money to building anything, it should be spent on improving transit within the denser old city, not the fre.king suburbs where majority of people drive to watch a movie. I'd rather...

I agree with you all parts of Toronto should be connected, but they ARE connected. At least among North American cities, TTC's coverage is top notch. There are few spots you can't reach within the city via public transit (plus 10 minutes of walking for connections). Scarborough is no exception...

What? What are you talking about. We love our cement. We want nothing but cement on each and every of our public space. Nothing else. Actually we don't know anything other than cement.

The city should not need to "sell" it to them. A transit plan is supposed to make transportation work more efficiently, not to make the people feel "respected". It is they who keep playing the victim of "Scarborough doesn't have subways" - I don't even know where that comes from considering it...

Do they know that most of them don't live anywhere close to that dreamed subway stop and that they would need a bus to get there? Or are they pretending as long as a subway is built, they can simply walk to the station and ride to downtown? I just fail to see how a one stop (or even 4 stop...

Gentrification efforts to Moss Park are made by the market, not the government. It is the private sector that is starting to propose new projects nearby Queen/Sherbourne because there is still much untouched land. By having a DRL stop, we ARE supporting private business making things happen in...

Why are you still insisting the DRL should serve waterfront residents? It was never supposed to be one of its goals! So a Queen DRL can't, but a King DRL 350m to the south magically solve all the problem? You will have to come up with better arguments. When exactly do you see the GO going to...

By ignoring their protests and discontent and putting social housing in their backyards? Social housing/shelters don't have to be 40s tower blocks. Why not build a few midrise social housing in Rosedale? It seems completely accessible to downtown and its amenities. I am sure Deer Park and Forest...

so we keep the poor in their familiar slums, pretending it is helping them. All I am saying is the knee-jerk reaction about "displacement" is not helping the poor. What makes "mature neighbourhoods" so sacred that they simply can't add a bit density and accommodate a few poor population? I am...

Build from the extremities? that means adding more strain to the Yonge line during rush hour? I can't disagree more. Your examples are off. Sheppard is already in the extremities in the city, did it get extended to the core? Sheppard is a mistake not because it was built, but because it should...

what prevents the city from placing them in a upwardly mobile neighbourhood with jobs that are not to the city's outskirts with recently good transit, anywhere that's more suitable for living than the already poverty ridden Moss Park? Poverty should be dispersed, not congregated. You talk as if...

I agree with that whole-heartedly. The idea Moss Park etc. should be just "left alone" so that the poor will not be "displaced" by new wealthier families and they will continue to have easy access to "services" is self-defeating. It may sound noble (although those who argue for it probably...

Considering the one stop Scarborough line will cost 2.9b, what he proposed wi will probably cost 10 times at least？

Tell me, the waterfront condo residents are expected to take the DRL to go where exactly? I am perplexed. And it contradicts your conclusion that even a King DRL only serves the area between the railtrack and Queen st. Waterfront is quite some distance away. Plus, the DRL is supposed to mainly...

And you will pay the cost difference due to the technical complications? Queen is 350 meters from King. Get over it and stop sulking. There's is benefits associated with a Queen alignment also.

It will NOT be King. Get over that already.

You are assuming the streetcar will meet every red light so there is no time wasted in stopping before each of them for unloading. If Simcoe and Victoria are already slated to be removed, why bother having these two stops on day 1 of service? Just because 504 does? None of it makes any sense...

I am in shock that there are 29 stops between dufferin and cherry, including the famous Simcoe and Victoria stops. Not sure what is supposed for.