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andrewpmk
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I find it hard to believe Vaughan Centre will ever amount to anything. The fact that Viva Orange is consistently underused is a strong indication that this development is a failure. No one wants to live near a giant CN railway yard.
Only in Toronto do we build subways to areas with empty buses and build light rail to areas with overcrowded buses every few minutes.
denfromoakvillemilton
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currently around 1 out of every two vaughan residents works in Toronto proper. Unless vaughan centre has some good jobs, it will fail, like SCC. The suburbs do well with industrial parks.
smallspy
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In their defense, most of the people in that area don't bother waiting for VIVA Orange, as the service is pretty shite. Most people along there take the ZUM 501 if they're heading into Toronto, or the 77 if they are traveling across 7.
Dan
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Johnny Au
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VIVA Orange between Downsview station and York U can be used by TTC commuters without paying York Region fare.
Woodbridge_Heights
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How does the Vaughan Centre plan differ from the Richmond Hill Centre plan? Ugh I bit.
howl
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Ya. I bet nobody can think of one city centre that ever grew up next to rail yard. Not one.
salsa
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Or next to a highway. Or an industrial area. People live beside all kinds of things, and they are fine with it.
JayBeeGooner
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Pfft... Nope.... Downtown Toronto definitely didn't grow next to a rail yard..
TheTigerMaster
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Are you stupid or something? Clearly Toronto is beside a rail yard.
Edit: nevermind. I'm looking at a map of the wrong city.
Edit: nevermind. I'm looking at a map of the wrong city.
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http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/201...bury_scarborough_section_of_eglinton_lrt.html
Come on guys, lets get back to the crosstown. Looks like people in Scarborough want the eastern third buried.
Come on guys, lets get back to the crosstown. Looks like people in Scarborough want the eastern third buried.
Midtown Urbanist
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So let me get this straight. The people of Scarborough want the Scarborough line buried, the Eglinton line buried and the Sheppard line buried.
How about we tax only Scarborough to bury these lines?
How about we tax only Scarborough to bury these lines?
ehlow
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I'm not saying whether they don't want it buried or do, but that article has no poll or statement about "people in Scarborough", other than Rob Ford saying "people in Scarborough want blah". So I don't think that's an accurate description of the contents of the article. The article states what Rob Ford's position is, not people in Scarborough generally.
BurlOak
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It is smart of Ford to push the underground option - because he knows the people want it and on the issue of extra money, the talking point is; "what you you rather have for your money, cancelled gas plants or a subway".
If poeple of Scarborough were asked what they wanted, it would not be what Council and the Provincial Liberals are doing.
edmundoconnor
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The only thing that should be buried is Rob Ford's political career.