Re: Re: Is the Core poised to destroy itself?
Transform the
GO Richmond Hill line into an all-day, every-ten-minute express service. I'd:
- insert a new transfer stop by creating turning a TTC stop on the Danforth line into an intermodal TTC/GO station, for transfers to the Bloor-Danforth line.
- merge the Oriole GO and Leslie TTC subway stations. Properly -- not just the long-promised delivery of some walkway, but one merged structure which encourages transfers. Yeah, onto the Sheppard line.
- merge the Langstaff GO station and nuttily-named Richmond Hill Centre VIVA/YRT stations. Again, properly -- not just some lonely walkway opening through a chain-link fence in the middle of a giant parking lot, but integrated in a way that encourages transfers. Heck, even inside an enclosed structure. And, okay, still in a giant parking lot, albeit next to a giant movie theatre.
Still. That gives you what's basically a north-south express line that shifts traffic off the congested Yonge Street line, bypasses the congested Yonge-Bloor station, trades traffic with the B-D, Sheppard, and VIVA east-west lines, and gets a bunch more people in York Region out of their cars on a daily basis. You'd want YRT to integrate better with the new and improved Langstaff station by considering hubbing my routes through it.
Which is when GO unveils its evil genius scheme to partner with a not-so-risk-adverse real estate developer, put underground parking beneath where its surface parking is now, and roll out a series of jaw-droppingly cool, family-friendly condo buidings at every GO train stop. Each atop a street-facing retail podium. Each of which, whatever else it had, would have a café and a gym Members of which would, naturally, have access to all other GO-colocated gyms, too.
... and, uh, presto. No impending crisis. :eek
