There's also the argument that people have no idea where Museum, Queen's Park, St Patrick, Osgoode and St Andrew stations are located. Even names like Old Mill, Christie, Chester, Donlands and Main Street aren't name after well known streets.I hate these station names so much. I had no clue where Cedaevale was reading that thing.
Well to be honest, Eglinton west of Black Creek probably would've been better off with an expressway running along it compared to the pathetic townhouse developments we see taking its place.I can't believe how close we were to screwing up our city with expressways.
3 - Motion to Amend Item (Additional) moved by Councillor Stephen Holyday (Carried)
That City Council direct to the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning to commence a comprehensive planning framework review for the Eglinton Avenue West corridor from Mount Dennis to the Etobicoke Creek to articulate the future of this linear tract and catchment area, along with an integrated approach to the community's long term vision, such review will:
a. build upon and extend the work of Eglinton Connects and the Mount Dennis Nodal Study, and better inform land use, transportation and transit planning with an aim to define specific future growth potential;
b. include, but not be limited to, Official Plan designations, zoning bylaws, Avenue overlays where they exist, a market feasibility study, nodal opportunities, roads, infrastructure and public realm associated with transit and transportation infrastructure investments, and an enhanced public communication and consultation process; and
c. incorporate Eglinton Avenue West itself, and significant points of potential such as plazas, apartment lands infill sites, and under-utilized sites within 750 metres of transit along the avenue.
The townhouse developments will hopefully not be the norm on this stretch.Well to be honest, Eglinton west of Black Creek probably would've been better off with an expressway running along it compared to the pathetic townhouse developments we see taking its place.
I agree with you on the other expressways though.
This is going to be above ground. I really don't see why we shouldn't have stops at Widdicombe, Wincott, Russel and Mulham. Dropping these stations is not going to make the trip much faster.There were suggestions that the Mulham stop (between Royal York Road and Scarlett Road), which would have served Plant World, be dropped.
I really don't see why we shouldn't have stops at Widdicombe, Wincott, Russel and Mulham. Dropping these stations is not going to make the trip much faster.
Yah, but this is not St. Clair streetcar stop intervals.This is a slippery slope. I do suspect that whatever traffic control and left-turn accommodation is designed will have more impact on speed than a couple more stops. All the more reason why we need to look at this on an integrated basis, and not in isolation.
There is no absolute threshold where we shrug and say "OK, it's a street car not an LRT" - but if that's what results, good luck getting taxpayer support for any further LRT lines in the city. We have to get this one (and Finch, and Hurontario, and Eglinton East) right.
- Paul
All those stops are also the only access points to the neighbourhoods to the north and south of Eglinton.
but chester is still a street as is christie, old mills, donlands, main street 0- it does not matter if they are not well known - they are obviously known to people living in the east endThere's also the argument that people have no idea where Museum, Queen's Park, St Patrick, Osgoode and St Andrew stations are located. Even names like Old Mill, Christie, Chester, Donlands and Main Street aren't name after well known streets.
My point is people will get use to these Metrolinx names and it would sound less strange.but chester is still a street as is christie, old mills, donlands, main street 0- it does not matter if they are not well known - they are obviously known to people living in the east end