Mike in TO
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New Condo at Markham & Sheppard.
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Blossom DORMANT (Sheppard e of Markham, Ballantry, 19 + 14 +9s, E.I. Richmond)
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urbandreamer
recession proof
Is it Holy?
scarberiankhatru
Senior Member
Model suite names include The Bialik, The Six, and The Whoa.
lordmandeep
Banned
Markham road and Sheppard???
Goood, more development along Sheppard...
Goood, more development along Sheppard...
unimaginative2
Senior Member
Well I hope it's a hundred floors high to justify the only new rapid transit line in Toronto to a corner with townhouses and a gas station.
acetradamus
New Member
You know, this whole thing about Markham and Sheppard not deserving a subway stop is rather silly.
The purpose of the station would not be to solely serve the immediate area within walking distance. It's more along the lines of... lets bring access to subway service CLOSER to a region of the city lacking in any real rapid transit connections.
People just assume Scarborough Town Centre suffiently serves the north-eastern end of the city. Well, it doesn't. Scarborough Town Centre isn't a DESTINATION for most people that pass through it by bus or RT, it's just a transit hub. Why should transit users in this end of the city be forced to travel as far west as McCowan Rd and south of the 401 to access RAPID TRANSIT. The same tens of thousands of people currently counted as Scarborough Centre station daily users coming in on buses would overnight be re-distributed to a station at Markham and Sheppard.
The purpose of the station would not be to solely serve the immediate area within walking distance. It's more along the lines of... lets bring access to subway service CLOSER to a region of the city lacking in any real rapid transit connections.
People just assume Scarborough Town Centre suffiently serves the north-eastern end of the city. Well, it doesn't. Scarborough Town Centre isn't a DESTINATION for most people that pass through it by bus or RT, it's just a transit hub. Why should transit users in this end of the city be forced to travel as far west as McCowan Rd and south of the 401 to access RAPID TRANSIT. The same tens of thousands of people currently counted as Scarborough Centre station daily users coming in on buses would overnight be re-distributed to a station at Markham and Sheppard.
scarberiankhatru
Senior Member
The RT extension would bring "rapid" transit slightly closer to less than half the people that currently transfer at STC, but it still wouldn't actually terminate anywhere worth terminating. These same people could see faster overall travel times with a Danforth extension.
unimaginative2
Senior Member
STC may not be a destination for all of them, but it's certainly a destination for a lot of them.
A Danforth subway extension to STC would cost roughly the same as the RT refurbishment and extension to Markham and Sheppard. It would deliver roughly the same travel time benefift as the RT extension for passengers coming from the northeast, and would deliver major benefits for passengers from the east and north as well, who would get absolutely nothing from an extension.
A Danforth subway extension to STC would cost roughly the same as the RT refurbishment and extension to Markham and Sheppard. It would deliver roughly the same travel time benefift as the RT extension for passengers coming from the northeast, and would deliver major benefits for passengers from the east and north as well, who would get absolutely nothing from an extension.
scarberiankhatru
Senior Member
Is Blossom going somewhere in the Markham/Sheppard/Progress/Orchid block? Or possibly the NW corner of M&S?
acetradamus
New Member
There's a sales center type building recently constructed just across from the Burrows Hall Community Centre/Library on Sheppard at Progress Ave.
scarberiankhatru
Senior Member
It's probably just the eastern half of the Sheppard/Progress/Orchid/Markham block, then...anyone got a city report link? Or has it not gotten that far yet.
ProjectEnd
Superstar
Eww...But if you live here, you have to say you live in a building called Blossom
Maybe I'm just being closed-minded but I really wouldn't want to live in a building built to honor a mid-90s teen-soap opera...
Maybe I'm just being closed-minded but I really wouldn't want to live in a building built to honor a mid-90s teen-soap opera...
adma
Superstar
Maybe it can have a neighbour named "Topanga"
scarberiankhatru
Senior Member
Naw, Topanga's near Malibu...
adma
Superstar
You mean they should have a condo named for Danielle Fishel down on Fleet Street?