Dundas East is the most important part of Dundas, and now you are proposing it be split in two?
Yes. Like all the bus routes on Eglinton, Lawrence, Sheppard, Finch, and Steeles are split at Yonge and every other bus route arriving at the subway terminus, the Dundas LRT could run from Cawthra to Mississauga's western border near Winston Churchill. A bus route could run Kipling to Cawthra, a disadvantage offset by the subway being available for quick service to MCC, Sherway Gardens, Kipling GO, and Bloor St in Toronto.
Your proposed subway extension not only fails to serve Dundas East properly, but also fails to serve Cooksville and make any regional connections in MCC.
It doesn't need to serve Cooksville because the Hurontario LRT already does that and it serves the Kipling GO and obviously with the subway stations along Burnhamthorpe the transit terminal will either be relocated to Hurontario or Living Arts/Confederation. The station at Hurontario could be made accessible by transit only lanes on Hurontario which also carry the LRT and the station at Confederation accessed via bus lanes on Living Arts. Eventually, as Burhamthorpe develops west of downtown Mississauga the subway could be extended to Erindale GO where it would provide a western anchor for transit access into central Mississauga with 403 busway, GO train, and subway access.
It also fails to serve highly redevelopable areas that either the Hurontario or Dundas LRT wouldn't already have served. And of course it would be no faster than either the BRT or the GO Train. Your proposed subway doesn't enhance either the regional or local transit, and may inf act hamper it...
It serves Dundas East from Cawthra to Jarrow which is certainly the majority of the developable land on Dundas East (initial stations at Cawtra and Dixie and potential stations at Tomken and Jarrow). It runs west on Burnhamthorpe and the most developable land on Burnhamthorpe is in the City Centre and west of there between MCC and Erindale on the south side... where an extension of the proposed route would occur (initial stations at Hurontario and Confederation and potential stations midway between Kariya and Duke of York, Mavis, Wolfedale, Erindale Station (which should be renamed), and Erindale GO). All other Mississauga subway proposals also split Dundas at the point the subway no longer runs on Dundas (none would propose running a subway to Winston Churchill nor missing Sherway) and duplicate service on Hurontario.
Isn't one of the major complaints of SOS the arbitrary transfers at Kennedy and Don Mills stations? And now you guys will propose an even more arbitrary transfer at Dundas and Cawthra?
At some point people will transfer to the subway. The LRT on Dundas can make the arbitrary transfer at Cawthra or Kipling. Those riders are better served if that transfer point is closer to their point of origin.
I think the best thing for Mississauga right now is just Dundas and Hurontario LRTs, and upgrading the Milton GO Train and upgrading the transitway. Any future subway extension would in Mississauga would completely replace the Dundas LRT and serve Cooksville.
That is impossible. You can't completely replace the Dundas LRT while serving both the Sherway Gardens area and Cooksville since both Sherway Gardens and Cooksville are not on Dundas. To go to Sherway you must miss the east end of Dundas and to go to Cooksville at Hurontario you must miss Dundas west of Jaguar Valley.