W. K. Lis
Superstar
If city council can't get the TTC out of the incompetent hands of Ford's henchmen/henchwomen, then to save it by getting merged with Metrolinx, but only as a last resort.
This is an interesting thread. Essentially, Metrolinx wants to spend money to get people from Brampton to Oakville, and TTC wants to spend money to get people to Humber College -- both in the interest of fairness -- whereas what we really need is to get people to/from downtown more easily. Nice.
I wouldn't want to upload anything that a future Premier Hudak might get his rural mitts on
I get the impression however that upper levels of government are either ideologically uninterested in contributing to transit because it is outside their jurisdiction (Federal)
or broke and no longer interested in Transit in the city proper for the next decade or more(Provincial).
That just leaves the city.
THats what GO is forMetrolinx is tasked with improving the regional transportation network, so they will advocate for modes of travel which further that goal. Trains which travel faster by stopping less frequently tend to serve that objective moreso than trains which stop more frequently - though there is some overlap.
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Freshcutgrass, the city has been trying to get stable funding for transit from senior government for generations. It will not happen. We need to accept this and put our transit destiny in our own hands (no matter how amateur hour city hall is). The strategy, as I mentioned, should be for the city to find at minimum 50-60 percent of the funding and get senior government to chip in the final component. That is how you leverage senior government, do all the hardwork and heavy lifting and let them slap their sticker on the final product and be the heros, given them all the credit for the remaining 25-30 percent of the funding.
I'v. If that were not the case, then you could kiss away a Spadina subway expansion....
Getting people to and from downtown more easily is one goal, but I suggest you look at traffic congestion along suburb to suburb corridors (like highway 7) before you jump to any conclusions. Our traffic problems are not as clear-cut as one might think.
I wouldn't doubt for a second that congestion on the 401 and highway 7 would be relieve by making the 407 free, but then that would just have two highways congested, but to lesser extent than currently.