Sure... or we could focus on the massive swaths of parking lots and abandoned yellow belt that will be a lot easier to redevelop.
We need to close off this discussion. Its not going well, and its leaving a very negative impression of you, with me and many others.
Moving along.......any land can be redeveloped.........and intensified.......why not greefield north of New Market?
Because its more expensive to serve is the answer.
You want the intensification to occur accretively to where it already happened, and to create critical mass Dropping it into random spots that aren't logical except that they profit certain owners is not sound planniing.
First, I don't know the last time Viva Blue has run a non-artic bus
Fine, capacity of 77 every 6M instead of 1,000 to 1,400.
, but I digress. Second, 6m is barely enough to handle current demands. Remember we're planning for the future here, and considering not just what's there right now, but the developments that have already been committed and are being made. That 6m will quite realistically go down very rapidly. They introduced Viva Blue 'B' last year for a reason, the amount of demand on the corridor south of Bernard is far more than what can be handled by evenly timed short turns. This is also not factoring the many bus routes that operate on Yonge Street south of RHC that aren't called Viva Blue (there are many). Third, if as a region we're planning for the 407 corridor to be a main circulator artery (which we are), a high capacity Finch <--> RHC connection becomes vital not just for the York Region commuters heading to Toronto, but also North York residents travelling to the northern reaches of the GTHA. That is a huge amount of demand that will need to be supplied in a necessarily transit oriented future.
You act as if I'm suggesting there not be a subway ever. That's not what I'm suggesting.
I'm saying service on existing routes, using existing vehicles should get better before we move to a subway.
I'm also suggesting that YRT's supporting and feeding services are nothing short of pathetic.
The investment per capita is well below Mississauga, Brampton and Durham.
Finally, and most importantly, I find your required target of reaching that target capacity of 1000-1400 to be concerning. If I were to somehow give you a list of facts that contributed to the section reaching anywhere near that capacity, this discussion wouldn't be about building a subway, but about building several different subways or something even higher capacity. The fact that the Yonge Line just south of Bloor-Yonge is reaching that capacity limit is like the fundamental reason why it is so crucial that we build projects like GO Expansion and the Ontario Line, the mere idea that a subway can only be justified if it reaches that capacity threshold is insane. By that logic we can probably justify the idea that no part of the Toronto Subway outside of the U is needed and shouldn't have been built. I ride Line 2 off peak all the time, and very rarely have I ever seen even every seat be taken. There is absolutely no reason that maxing out train capacity should be our target for capacity needs.
This is not what I said at any point and this typifies the reason this discussion must end. You're misrepresenting my view and making bad faith arguments without supporting evidence for no reason.
I have never been disrespectful to you, but I mostly certainly feel disrespected by you.
My patience is at an end.
