Allandale25
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Awesome! But perhaps more appropriate for the GO Transit Electrification thread?
Good point. I'll copy it there so that thread can be updated.
Awesome! But perhaps more appropriate for the GO Transit Electrification thread?
Date: Wednesday June 28, 2017
Time: 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. (Presentation to begin at 7:00 p.m.)
Location: Lucie and Thornton Blackburn Conference Centre – Grand Room* George Brown College Campus 80 Cooperage Street, Toronto, ON
The Star has to lay off on this.....afterall, this is a government with money just lying around looking to do stuff with and with all the other transit issues in the province solved....what were the Kirby moneys supposed to be spent on.Your government at work.
“Two new stations — one in Transportation Minister Steven Del Duca’s riding, the other championed by Toronto Mayor John Tory — were approved despite an internal report advising both stops should not be built, the Star has learned.”
“A detailed rating in the report shows that Kirby ranked last out of seven proposed new stations on the Barrie line. The proposed station "does not generate any benefits related to vehicle kilometres travelled, vehicle operating cost savings, decongestion on the road network, safety impacts or environmental impacts," the summary said.”
“Metrolinx declined to answer specific questions the Star put to the agency, including why the summary report wasn’t made public, what role the minister and mayor played in getting the two stations approved, or how the public can have confidence that the agency is spending taxpayers’ money on evidence-based transit decisions given that advice in the summary report wasn’t followed.”
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/20...stions-about-approval-of-new-go-stations.html
The Star has to lay off on this.....afterall, this is a government with money just lying around looking to do stuff with and with all the other transit issues in the province solved....what were the Kirby moneys supposed to be spent on.
Lawrence East would replace a stop on the Scarborough RT, which is being decommissioned to build a one-stop extension of the TTC’s Line 2 (Bloor-Danforth) subway. The proposed station performed better in AECOM’s ranking than Kirby, but the summary report determined the density in the surrounding area was also too low to justify express rail.
Del Duca and Wynne are an absolute embarrassment. So while we continue to build transit in communities that dont even exist yet, other communities with the largest densities in the entire country get ignored *cough* Humber Bay *cough*.
Presumably the developer constituents who own the undeveloped land in Kirby provide bigger "contributions" to Del Duca than residents in Concord.And Concord GO (Barrie Line at Hwy 7) would have provided valuable integration with the Viva Highway 7 rapidway, AND still satisfied Del Duca's Vaughan constituents. Why go with Kirby over Concord?
What I don't get is why it costs $100M to build 1 station. That's insane.
Metrolinx lectures TTC about fare integration when there is none between GO and UPX - two Metrolinx owned servicesIf Metrolinx is serious about fare integration, the density in the surrounding area is pretty irrelevant since most of the station's ridership would come from people transferring to/from the 54 bus.
True the pedestrian tunnel will be around $7M. So where does the rest of the money go? It's mostly pavement for the platform and a simple station house. I can see $20-40M but $100M?I don't disagree BUT even a simple pedestrian tunnel (no platform, building, etc.) under the tracks as tendered for other Barrie line stations is $5.5M (so for this station it'll be more like $7M due to inflation). I couldn't say why it costs that much; just that it seems to be consistent every time Metrolinx tenders something despite multiple bidders for the work.
True the pedestrian tunnel will be around $7M. So where does the rest of the money go? It's mostly pavement for the platform and a simple station house. I can see $20-40M but $100M?