drum118
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In fact, if one walks east from Broadview to Main, you will see the street decline as you walk it. Main Area is seeing more development these days. Most buildings are 2 story and the fall off point of decline starts at Pape from my point of view. It completely fall off east of Victoria.The real NIMBY problem is people like you who fight to and rise up & protest fair investment in Toronto's neglected suburbs. This nonsense has gone beyond absurd and does nothing to help this City grow.
Your point is completely irrelevant regarding STC? Have you ever even looked around the corner for from most subway current stops? ... Many are surrounded by bungalows (or recently torn down ones for a taller detached home) and other regular detached housing. The surrounding area around STC is actually easier to develop than most of the current subway stops outside of downtown & no one is even complaining about high rise development.
This really doesn't even make sense and adds nothing but continue to troll the debate with divisive jargon.
Bloor west of Spadina is about 2-3 story and more busy than Danforth. There are various sections that have high buildings near the stations. West of Jane falls off for a number of reasons, but its more healthy than the east.
As noted STC was to be a major hub like North York, but both are decades behind from where they should be with a lot of room to grow. Scarborough is a young area, yet it has been built poorly to other areas even though there are pockets old area that are single homes. Even the Malvern area is low density today considering it was to have rail in the 80's and on course to have it until Ford came to power.
If people and areas are not willing to accept higher density, then they have to accept investment in their area will be low along with poor transit service. At the same time, they must pay more to maintain that life quality that will pay for the maintaining of existing infrastructure and service. If you got 10,000 people paying say $20 million for everything, that a huge hit on the pocket book. Now if you got 40,000 paying that same $20 million, that a nice saving in the pocket.
At some point X service has to stop as its not cost effected to carry it further and is down graded to X service that is more effected to go further. In many places that high quality of service people want will never surface due to the various cost to build, operate and maintain it. Moreso, the ridership is not or will never be there in the first place.
What gets me after writing something, Councilor Thompson and Glen De Baeremaeker, both Scarborough councilors who sat on TTC Commission before Ford came to office, had the chance to have the subway built to STC at a cost of $1 Billion to replace the SRT, but voted against it. They thought the LRT was the way to go. Years later, who lead the charge to put the subway plan on the table after Ford came to power?? That $1 Billion subway is now close to $3 Billion.
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