TheTigerMaster
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Nah, $3.5 billion to stroke Scarborough's collective ego is more than enough.
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Nah, $3.5 billion to stroke Scarborough's collective ego is more than enough.
TheTigerMaster
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I highly doubt that. Kennedy, Kennedy RER and Eglinton RER are in the immediate vicinity. I don't think that they'll be too many people demanding an infill station on the Line 2 once RER is online.
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denfromoakvillemilton
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And this is the truth, assume this is all done.
EDIT: Lol, I see you TigerMaster
TheTigerMaster
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Electrify
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Gotta love this city. We skip putting in rapid transit stops which make sense (Willowdale, Glencairn East, Brimley, etc) and instead put them in where they don't (Bessarion, Glencairn,Old Mill, etc).
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ehlow
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Why does Willowdale make sense?
TheTigerMaster
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I know. It's unfortunate that we build underground railways to stroke egos. Thats how we ended up with the Sheppard Ego Stroker and the Scarborough Ego Stroker.
Nope. We don't need a Willowdale station. Nor do we need Don Mills, Leslie, Bessarion, Bayview, Lawrence East, Ellesmere, Sheppard East, Black Creek Pioneer Village (really????) or Vaughan 'Metropolitan' Centre (really?????) Ego Stroker Stations.
TheTigerMaster
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Well Willowdale Station would presumably make that money burning machine on Sheppard an ever so slightly smaller waste of money. Because, you know, 2 more people would use the money burner annually, offsetting some of the operational costs.
The Sheppard Money Burner also functions as an Ego Stroker, so it's somewhat efficient in that regard. It's a two-for
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nfitz
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What's wrong with Pioneer Village? It's a massive transit node. More importantly, it's the key to getting buses off York University campus, as they'll now use this station. If you terminate the line at York University instead of Pioneer Village, where would the buses go? You'd need a massive bus terminal in the middle of campus (assuming that 407 and Vaughan Centre are also off).
TheTigerMaster
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My bad, I got my geography confused. I was thinking that YorkU Station was south of Finch West.
Yes, I would terminate the line at Steeles West, largely for its connection to FWLRT and to relieve Yonge Line. Like Sheppard and Scarborough, this line has very low ridership (only 7,000 persons), so we should have avoided spending money extending it further than absolutely necessary. I'd then move Vaughan Metropolitan Centre (the planned neighbourhood, not the station) east towards Barrie RER.
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Electrify
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Not only is it a healthy kilometer between Sheppard-Yonge and Bayview, but unlike Bessarion, there is a fair amount of density around it. In addition, the Willowdale-Senlac bus can help to bring in ridership as well.
Dan416
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I know we shouldn't talk about other posters on here, but Tiger Master has gotten more and more negative of late.
ehlow
Senior Member
Density? I've been there many times and I don't recall any density, and I don't see any on Google maps, which should be updated to this year.
There's the Rona, a few restaurants, one small office building.. it's mostly single family housing, until you get much closer to Yonge or Bayview:
https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.7518933,-79.3987973,1504a,20y,41.27t/data=!3m1!1e3
It seems pretty similar to Bessarion to me..
WislaHD
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Palma
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Can't you just name the line, instead of this Line 1, 2, etc business