denfromoakvillemilton
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Without a doubt, but these people don't care. They want the transit underground and to go from STC quickly without issue. Besides, they are already introducing a proposals on city council.Ah Den, it's great to be here as always. But I don't think the subway is an inevitability. The Scarborough Liberal caucus and some rather noisy councillors can continue to push for, and they will continue to push for it, but unless the city can find the money (lol) or the province is willing to spend a serious few billions, it has little traction still.
What I find odd about touting any Sheppard project as serving northern Scarborough is that Sheppard really isn't that far north in the east end. Speaking in arterials, you still have Finch, McNicoll, and Steeles—a good third of Scarborough's width at the western edge of the city, and almost a half at the east, not to mention a sizeable chunk of its population—to its north, with zero higher-order transit. If we want to get talking about realllllllyyyyy northern Scarborough, I've always been fond of the idea of a Steeles LRT myself.
The Sheppard East LRT budget was about $1 billion, though that didn't include the yard (which was part of the Scarborough RT replacement budget. So about $1.2 billion available. So roughly 4 km of subway. Hmm, might just be able to do it, if you just build one station at Bathurst, and another at Downsview.
Though I doubt the ridership justifies it in comparison to other projects. I'd think the Sheppard East LRT ridership would be higher entering Don Mills station.
And so it begins. Here is some bullshit we can look forward to for many years to come now that the LRT is dead.
http://www.insidetoronto.com/news-s...ning-to-reintroduce-sheppard-subway-proposal/
Ridership sometimes is not everything.
I think the benefits to connectivity in our transit network (and no, this goes beyond just painting lines on a map to look good) is a very justifiable reason for expansion. The great transit networks we laud in other cities are great for their connectivity and their diversity of transit route choices.
My only question mark is something that was brought up by 44 North in a previous page. Would Yonge Line users transfer on Sheppard to the less crowded Spadina line, or would the reverse happen with Spadina users transferring to an already overcrowded Yonge line? Such a thing should be studied before a Sheppard West extension happens.
At most the Sheppard Subway will cost the same as the Bloor Danforth Extension - 3.5 billion. Maybe 4 because they have to pass the don valley and the 404. There is already 1.2 billion on the table from the LRT. That leaves 2.3 billion. Not too hard to find.