too bad our dream system would cost 100 billion dollars. which in case you haven't noticed, isn't exactly lying around in people's pockets. Yes, in a dream world we would get a DRL, Queen Line, Sheppard line, and Eglinton line, as well as fast, frequent urban rail (think: S-Bahn), but in reality we can't do that without spending ourselves to death. Toronto's GDP is currently around $260 billion, and that is for the entire region. If you were to build a subway network that reached every end of the city, you could easily spend 100% of that. The current plan is for $2 billion a year to be put towards transit, about 0.7% of the GDP. We would get some new subway lines, where the ridership numbers don't allow for anything else (Yonge Extension, DRL) and LRT in other spots. (Hurontario, Hamilton) then we would get S-Bahn style service on the lakeshore GO corridor, with all day 2 way service like currently on the lakeshore corridor brought to the Stouffville, Barrie, and Kitchener lines. We would also receive 86km of BRT.
Put simply, as nice as it would be to have a subway to your front door, it is simply not realistic to expect that when they cost 350 million dollars a km to construct.
To help you understand how our transit will be expanding in the near future, I have made a few maps.
LEGEND:
Thick Coloured Lines...........................Grade separated rapid transit (subway, underground or elevated LRT)...........33km/h
Thin Coloured Lines............................Middle of the street ROW LRT....................................................................24km/h
Thick Black Lines................................S-Bahn style GO urban, electrified rail.........................................................50-60km/h
Thin Black Lines.................................All day 2 way GO service (what is currently on the lakeshore lines).................45-55km/h
Red Lines..........................................BRT........................................................................................................35km/h
Today's transit network
What is currently Funded:
What is coming if the transit tax is passed:
What Hudak promises if he wins office: