TheTigerMaster
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I find it curious that the Wilson BRT doesn't connect with the Jane LRT. I don't see the logic behind this.
Which is not nearly enough. Even if the province paid half of this (the feds will not pay a share) the true cost to Toronto families would be more like $1800/yr for 30 years.
The real question is, if this ever gets support, which project would they truly build with their limited funds? Will it be the DRL, or are we going back to the Scarborough subway battle again?
This plan pre-empts Rob Ford's Subways Subways Subways re-election bid. While Ford will be calling for Subways during the 2014 election, Stintz or whoever will be vying to kick him off the Mayor's chair can also fight for subways while calling Ford's unicorn tears subway dream toothless with no plans to pay for it. Anybody with an ounce of perception of reality will call bullshit on Ford's dream and realize that subways in this city will require somebody to pay for them. If this were an LRT vs Subways election, Ford might just win but Stintz & Co. are making this a Subways with money to pay for them vs Subways with no plan. Ford will lose.
I'm relieved.
The Globe said:Stintz pitches property-tax hike to pay for $30-billion TTC overhaul
The Sun said:TTC chair pitches transit tax
The Globe said:He referred questions to Councillor Denzil Minnan-Wong, a Ford supporter who, along with four others, was booted from the commission in March.
Mr. Minnan-Wong said he was speaking for himself and the mayor when he called the plan a “massive, backdoor tax increase,†that would hurt seniors, young families and the city’s economy.
Eliminate the useless transfer at Kennedy? Check
We're suddenly going to rely on a Star graphic for accuracy? Remember the debate they created when they showed Metrolinx's DRL line going through Woodbine station, when the Metrolinx report actually said Pape?Oh wow, looking at the map, it's very clear that the DRL connection is at King Stn, not at Queen. It only jumps up to Queen when King St merges into Queen.
For 484 million more dollars! A half billion premium so that people that are already going to be served by rapid transit don't have to switch trains. Oh and for all that money we also lose service to Centennial College.
This is subway fetishism at it's worst. No logical plan would ever spend money on this (as its first priority no less!) when we have so many pressing needs elsewhere in the city.
They seem to also mention that the Waterfront West LRT and Waterfront East Streetcar will be separate lines. I wonder if it makes more sense to build these as a single through-line, connecting to YUS just south of Union?
Also although extending BD to STC is great it would be better if it could have followed the SRT extension enlightenment. That way Centennial College gets served and north of Sheppard at Progress there's an abandoned rail corridor that allows for easy cut & cover. A single route to Malvern Town Centre would be a better service to that area than a LRT spur.
We're suddenly going to rely on a Star graphic for accuracy? Remember the debate they created when they showed Metrolinx's DRL line going through Woodbine station, when the Metrolinx report actually said Pape?
Perhaps we should save the "where should the Don Mills line go" debate for all the threads already set up for that, and not read too much into this.
If you look closely at where all the upgrades are, the happen to be NOT in wards that are Rob Ford friendly.