scarberiankhatru
Senior Member
This is what the Save Our Subways group has come up with:
1) B-D subway completed using the rail corridor to STC.
2) Sheppard Subway completed to STC.
3) SELRT running from Agincourt to Meadowvale (truncated version of the TC proposal)
4) Eglinton LRT (up for debate, however) extended to Eglinton and Kingston.
5) Scarborough Malvern downgraded to BRT, from Kennedy to Meadowvale.
6) Progress-Malvern LRT (formerly the SRT), downgraded to at-grade LRT, from STC to Malvern Centre.
Why on earth wouldn't the Sheppard line run through the CN/CP interchange? Why create a triangle of subway/GO/LRT transfers when you can create a triple interchange? There's nothing at Brimley & Pitfield, but at least the Brimley & Progress area has a decent number of jobs and a potentially enormous number of future towers. The rail corridor NE of Kennedy no longer exists...it's been sold off and built over. It looks like Kennedy will be rebuilt at an angle, but if it is, why not just run up the RT corridor? Otherwise it'll only be running in the [currently occupied] rail corridor for literally a few hundred metres. The only reason to approach STC from the east is to combine B/D with Sheppard, which isn't a great idea.
This is still just a 'how to spend money on Malvern' plan that doesn't fully address riders on corridors like McCowan, Lawrence, or Ellesmere - all of which are busier than Malvern. UTSC needs a better connection to STC, not a BRT that overlaps two LRT lines and still leaves people a 5+ minute walk from the campus. The main route replaced by a grade-separated LRT to Malvern sees only 8000 rides a day.