BurlOak
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Ever heard of Glendon Campus?
True, but UTSC is 4 times bigger.
I wonder what the populations are of the various university and College campuses across Toronto.
Ever heard of Glendon Campus?
Good ideaLawrence or Bayview LRT time?
It is not a 3 minute bus ride. Google maps says it's 13 minutes, which doesn't include walking and wait time. My friend used to take that bus everyday when he studied at Centennial, and he would always tell me how much he hated it, how it was always crowded, uncomfortable, slow, and bunching up. It's a real shame that Centennial will never get real rapid transit thanks to political meddling.
And I guarantee Murray's idea of BRT is based on DRT Pulse which is not even BRT or so called "BRT-Lite."
The plans are fairly detailed for it, the existing pulse service with bulked up service and a curb side bus lane. I'm sure the TTC would be allowed to use the lanes..
Routing transit lines is a lot more than just linking up all the already developed areas. All of those existing suburban higher-density developed area are designed to be served by cars and people live there because they like driving (otherwise they would live downtown). One important factor in picking a new higher-order transit route is to hit all the areas where there is the potential for new transit oriented development. That may mean running the line through underdeveloped neighbourhoods rather than fully-developed neighbourhoods.
Routing transit lines is a lot more than just linking up all the already developed areas. All of those existing suburban higher-density developed area are designed to be served by cars and people live there because they like driving (otherwise they would live downtown). One important factor in picking a new higher-order transit route is to hit all the areas where there is the potential for new transit oriented development. That may mean running the line through underdeveloped neighbourhoods rather than fully-developed neighbourhoods.
True, but UTSC is 4 times bigger.
I wonder what the populations are of the various university and College campuses across Toronto.
How about they live there because they can't afford to live downtown or they just don't want to live downtown? Not everyone wants to live downtown.
I'm not familiar with what transit is like to Centennial so I can't really speak to daily conditions. My point was that one of the biggest pro LRT arguments was that the LRT reaches more people (while the subway would have more users). The capture area for Centennial station must take up a sizable chunk of the 47000 people in range of the LRT. (For that matter it's not like the industrial area from Kennedy north to STC is really walkable from those stations for the employees there.) I remember Minister Murray saying the most people going to Centennial come from the east. Now if that it true then the LRT/subway doesn't matter (personally I'm not too sure of this being true).they are still only a 3 minute bus ride away. the subway does have higher ridership than the LRT. the centennial stop would have had no connecting bus routes and it is a very small campus to justify a subway. even if 2/3rd of the students and employees took the subway there every day it would just barely break the "break even" level for a subway stop. (in reality will probably be closer to 1/3 the students and employees)
Routing transit lines is a lot more than just linking up all the already developed areas. All of those existing suburban higher-density developed area are designed to be served by cars and people live there because they like driving (otherwise they would live downtown).
One important factor in picking a new higher-order transit route is to hit all the areas where there is the potential for new transit oriented development. That may mean running the line through underdeveloped neighbourhoods rather than fully-developed neighbourhoods.
Been looking thru the last few pages to get an update but I'm still lost.
Is the BD subway expansion to Sheppard a go or not? I can only assume it will be tunneled to make sure it "world class" and doesn't block the view at the bohemians at McCafe.
Not quite correct. What Tory said is he won't open the debate. Soknacki says he would cancel the Scarborough subway. Stinz supports it on;y because she knew she would be running for mayor and is buying votes.Nothing has changed in the past 4 months. They have acquired about $3.5B from the original SRT replacement funding, from the federal government, and from agreed upon future City property tax increases.
[*]All other major Mayoralty candidates support the $3.5B B-D extension to Sheppard via McCowan
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A city that desperately needs a another downtown subway, make Eglinton grade separated and an effective GO REX system and it's going to blow a massive $3 billion on a tiny subway extension.
Imagine what that $3 billion would do to electrify all the GO line in the city, run OTrain EMUs and bring true mass/rapid transit to all areas of the city but alas no. Toronto really does deserve to have the tiny little system it's got. Even when it gets the money it says it desperately needs, it turns around and spends it on a tiny little extension that won't cut down anybody's commute no matter where in the city they live. Pathetic.