Rainforest
Senior Member
Nothing to add that has already been said but as I Scarborough resident I am so disappointed.
Scarborough Town Centre will be getting $4 billion dollar in investment while the rest of Scarborough will be neglected.
I keep going back to this study done by a prof at UTSC:
https://uttri.utoronto.ca/files/2015/03/Choices-for-Scarborough.pdf
Again the best transit plan was Sheppard LRT, Eglington East LRT, Scarborough LRT all integrated with Rapid GO transit on the Markham stouville line. This would help residents get downtown faster and open up huge areas for redevelopment and revitalisation. To top it all off I'm pretty confident that at least two of these lines would have been completed or under construction right now and probably within the 4 billion dollar budget.
I'm honestly trying my best out here to create positive change, emailing both my councillor and MPP but I was wondering does anyone know of any other efforts from locals to rally around preventing this disaster? After speaking with friends and family in the area, most are misinformed but once we got talking they kinda of get it but they are so apathetic...they literally feel like oh were from Scarborough this what politicians do to us.
Please note that the document you are referring to, has one substantial omission. The authors did not show that their preferred option (Option 3) can actually meet the ridership demand. They didn't even ask that question.
My concern is that their preferred option removes the SRT link between Kennedy Stn and Scarborough Centre, and does not replace it with any other kind of direct link. They have a light rail line running through STC and terminating at a new Ellesmere SmartTrack station (blue line on Page 28), but it does not connect to BD subway. Presumably, riders arriving to Ellesmere station are expected to board RER / SmartTrack trains, and proceed either to Kennedy Stn or further south towards downtown.
The problem is, Stouffville line can not run at the required frequency, because of the constraints in the Union Rail Corridor.
You don't need to take my word for that; you can just open the document you referred to, and check whether the authors tried to estimate the capacity and demand for their proposed lines. They didn't.