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This guy Murray is so clueless, half of the time he is talking out of his ass.
the other half he is silent
This guy Murray is so clueless, half of the time he is talking out of his ass.
Keep in mind this is the same Glen Murray that last week tweeted to me that "many" GO lines have all day two way train service.
The ICTS would have been better as an Etobicoke RT starting where the first phase would be Kipling to the Airport, and they probably would have kept it as RT.
Does Metrolinx count? Before Murray hijacked them they were fully in support of the LRT plan.
Metrolinx simply endorsed Transit City, it didn't really get an outside opinion as to what would make the best sense - both in terms of route and technology used. I'd like to see MMM Group or another transport consulting agency explore as many options as possible and determine the best one.
That would be a very smart move. Could take much of the politics out of the equation.
I would almost think it better to eliminate Metrolinx and make it part of the Ministry of Transportation. Now MTO has the ultimate responsibility for Metrolinx and they are always behind the scenes providing direction to satisfy their political needs. They also spend great effor, cost and time to make it appear that Metrolinx is independant, but at the end of the day, they have shown that the Minister of Transportation runs Metrolinx.
In the event that the McCowan subway now proceeds I'd like to see something done with the SRT alignment - maybe a BRT. A BRT would allow the GO tracks to be shifted to avoid the need for a tunnel without severing the industrial spurs, and might do so in enough room to allow twin tracking the Stouffville line to Progress.