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Today's new stations are all in North-East Scarborough.

Starspray Ave / Lawrence Ave E (note the street is really called Starspray Blvd, but this is the station name for now)
Rouge Hill GO Station
Colonel Danforth Park
Morningside Park
Livingston Rd. at Highland Creek Trail
Livingston Rd. at Guildwood Parkway
 
Today's new stations are all in North-East Scarborough.

Starspray Ave / Lawrence Ave E (note the street is really called Starspray Blvd, but this is the station name for now)
Rouge Hill GO Station
Colonel Danforth Park
Morningside Park
Livingston Rd. at Highland Creek Trail
Livingston Rd. at Guildwood Parkway

If only subway infrastructure was this quick haha.

Todays subway stations are Corktown, Gerrard East, Pape, Thorncliffe Park.
 
If only subway infrastructure was this quick haha.

Todays subway stations are Corktown, Gerrard East, Pape, Thorncliffe Park.

I'd settle for 'This year's subway stations are'

That's something we actually came pretty close to achieving in the 70s.

Lawrence and York Mills opened in 1973
Sheppard and Finch in 1974
Spadina subway in 1977 (Spadina, Dupont, St. Clair West, Eglinton West, Glencairn, Lawrence West, Yorkdale and Wilson)
Kennedy and Kipling in 1980

So for a 8-year period Toronto opened 2 or more stations in 4 different years. Can one imagine?

14 stations total.
 
Would love to see incremental increases to our transit network. Line 2 can be extended incrementally towards Sherway Gardens for instance. Yonge North could begin with Steeles and coordinate with land use changes to Yonge & Cummer and Yonge & Steeles. Eglinton Crosstown once built, could also be incrementally extended east of Kennedy.
 
Would love to see incremental increases to our transit network. Line 2 can be extended incrementally towards Sherway Gardens for instance. Yonge North could begin with Steeles and coordinate with land use changes to Yonge & Cummer and Yonge & Steeles. Eglinton Crosstown once built, could also be incrementally extended east of Kennedy.
Unfortunately this makes far too much sense and our politicians are bozos who dont understand this concept. For some reason a subways has to stretch all the way into Vaughan in one shot, and then stretch all the way to Richmond Hill in another shot.

The piecemeal approach in extending subway lines makes far more sense, but that's Toronto and Ontario politics for you.
 
Unfortunately this makes far too much sense and our politicians are bozos who dont understand this concept. For some reason a subways has to stretch all the way into Vaughan in one shot, and then stretch all the way to Richmond Hill in another shot.

The piecemeal approach in extending subway lines makes far more sense, but that's Toronto and Ontario politics for you.

Why was it achievable in the 70's?
 
Today's new stations are all in North-East Scarborough.

Starspray Ave / Lawrence Ave E (note the street is really called Starspray Blvd, but this is the station name for now)
Rouge Hill GO Station
Colonel Danforth Park
Morningside Park
Livingston Rd. at Highland Creek Trail
Livingston Rd. at Guildwood Parkway

Now Scarborough just needs actual separated bike lines for these bikes to ride on!
 
Why was it achievable in the 70's?
I wont get into it too much here since this is a Bike Share thread, but simply put politicians back then had some more common sense (ie: real common sense, not the fake "common sense revolution BS").

But since we're talking about bikes, having any transit built at a piecemeal approach today is akin having bike lanes built in this city today: Painfully slow, and laughably methodical.
 

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