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"Brussels is a perfect example of a Pre-Metro system where LRT runs in subway tunnels that are built before the line is long enough or heavily enough used to be a full subway with heavy rail equipment."

But that's the whole point I'm making - you seem to think that if extended to Downsview and STC, the ridership would stay below 50,000 per day...can those pre-metro LRTs handle 100,000 or 120,000 riders a day? If they can, can they handle twice that to allow for future growth? If they can't, why would the city spend a billion dollars, close the Sheppard line for a few years, remove the option of fast express buses on Sheppard, take lanes away from cars, only to end up with something that has a lower capacity?
 
You spend the money to put LRT from Albion Mall to SCC because it is still far less expensive than a much smaller subway extention. There isn't money to build a subway so the question isn't a choice between a subway today or an LRT today, it is a choice between an LRT today and a subway far in the future. The total cost of the St.Clair ROW is at most $70M and reaches more than 6km. The subway extention to SCC is about 8km and would cost in excess of $1.3 billion. For $1.3 billion you could afford to run LRT on Finch to McCowan, Sheppard to McCowan, and York Mills / Ellesmere to McCowan and still have money left over. The combination of these three routes would meet demand easily and provide service much closer to where people want to go. In the suburbs it is far more efficient to use LRT... you could put LRT on every major street in the suburbs for a fraction of the cost of effectively providing subway service to that large area.
 
Spoiler: It's blah-chitecture located at Leslie and Sheppard.
Not exactly urban/street friendly either.
 
Eww. It's Cheddington Lite, and perfect for this backwater of taste. Empty-nesting Willowdalians will be falling over each other in the stampede to secure their piece of succotash here.
 
Has this one gone through city council yet? It is fairly far back from the street in an area that probably many home owners thought was safe from Sheppard Ave intensification. Is there a subway entrance on the east side of Leslie?
 
^ This one was met with quite a bit of local resistance (intensification along the new subway line seemed like a strange concept to local home owners).

It is a rather challenging and odd shaped site that the developer had to deal with.
 
I get the feeling that people who buy this won't be making much use of the subway. It's about a 7-800m walk along a 6 lane arterial road from the site to Leslie station...
 
Looks pretty crappy... calling it Chedington lite is being too generous.
 
If this building is called Aria, then it must be named after one sung by Florence Foster Jenkins.
 
It'll be practically invisible from Sheppard, anyway.
 
Ewwww. Blechhhhhhhhh. Gack.

They've doubled the amount of dreck at this project by adding a mirror-image Phase II now.

Life is full of nasty surprises.

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now the the second phase is selling ... you may as well as find out the third phase to the north ... which will be a series of 3 storey townhouses

The new road extending from Buchan Court will be named Bloorview Place, and likely the future municipal address for the towers and townhouses

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Aria towers construction has begun, site grading / excavation underway ... estimated occupancy is October 2009 for south tower (left) and May 2010 for north tower (right), but I think its unrealistic though

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Looking at the site plan it is unfortunate that Clovercrest road could not have been connected to the road by the townhomes - although I suspect that may have something to do with ratepayer concerns regarding increased levels of traffic in the community.
 
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