The time quoted wasn't best-case scenario, but average scenario. Often times the delay will be shorter, other times it will be greater).
If there's one thing this city's transit drama has taught us, it's to take quotes with a massive grain of salt
Like I said, many bus routes that move more people than the SRT work fine.)
The SRT is at over capacity as stated by the Star due to lack of vehicles to meet the growing demand. Meaning some people just gave up and used alternatives while the SRT is right there, while for Bus routes, TTC can add buses and Streetcars. It's a poor comparison
The 510 Spadina has greater ridership than the SRT, and Spadina Avenue didn't implode when it was replaced by busses.)
They have many alternatives in that part of the city:
-Line 2
-Line 1
-Streetcar routes and alternative bus routes
again, a poor comparaison
The people who use the Finch West bus, which also moves more people than the SRT, will be dealing with their own slow downs (probably greater in magnitude than the SRT shutdown) as well.)
I respect your assumption about the "greater magnitude" of
slowdown between Finch slowing down and SRT
shutting down. I know that Finch West has more ridership but as I've addressed earlier, the SRT ridership is stale due to lack of capacity, not because the real demand isn't much higher.
Yonge Line will soon shut
down for an extended period for trackbed construction and to accommodate the Eglinton LRT, and that is the single most used transit line in North America. This is in addition to the recent slow orders that have been in place the past month, which have delayed trips for a greater period of time than what is anticipated for the SRT replacement. If Spadina, Finch, Eglinton, St. Clair and Yonge can deal with it, so can Scarborough. Why of all the infrastructure related delays in this city, is Scarborough the one that we feel we need to bend over backwards to minimize?
Why you so mad? We're still debating aren't we?
If the Yonge line is to be shutdown for 3 consecutive years and replaced by shuttle buses the whole time, that's news to me.
Spadina? Already listed the more convenient alternatives including 2 subway lines.
Finch? They never had a rapid transit line, why did it take that long to implement an express branch? Why no BRT? So because the city and TTC did nothing, they should submit the rest of the city to their neglecting?
Eglinton? Blame Harris for this
St.Clair? Not sure they took it as well as you're implying...as a matter of fact they were probably angrier than those annoying scaberians...
Yonge? 1954 when boring machines didn't exist vs 2016? Really?
Traveling all the way to Danforth is more difficult and longer than taking the bus through the construction disruptions at Leslie, Yonge and Allen..)
I used the subway because St.Clair was a good alternative until the shutdown
There are several travel alternatives existing in Scarborough.
Ok
There is the Sheppard Subway,
That`s good for those north of the 401...not so much for the rest as Sheppard has its own problems too
Extra charge...I hope I`m not teaching you that many people in those areas can`t afford it...you should have add ''GO to exempt extra charges at STC and Scarborough GO Station''...There I helped you
any one of the many Eglinton/Kingston Rd buses (such as 86 Scarborough), or they can travel to Yonge by bus
Travel to Yonge...Because their times less valuable then the rest. right?
And as someone who traveled from Scarborough to downtown for years, I can tell you that both the Eglinton/Kingston busses (e.g. 198 Rocket), or travelling all the way from east Scarborough to Lawrence or York Mills Station by bus were generally faster options than the SRT (seriously, check it out in Google Maps)
I respect your assessment and your opinion. If everyone in that area felt that way, you and I wouldn`t be debating...right?