LemonCondo
Active Member
What is the situation along the transitway as far as TOD goes? Even if its a mix of residential, commercial and office, still should be TOD. Right now all I see are suburban office parks with seas of parking.
drum118
Superstar
The Transitway is in an ROW of an hydro corridor, transmission lines for gas and oil. This rule out TOD. To the north you have low density to mid rise buildings. and see no increase for it.
Along Eglinton Ave, the southside is employment land as well the northside with the south side could see higher density under the airport flight path. Eastgate is employment land.
Only Square One lands can see TOD
afransen
Senior Member
This is why I am dubious of highway ROW transitways. We should reserve separate ROWs for rail transit...
ARG1
Senior Member
Highway ROWs are fine if you treat them as they are, connector lines. Rather than lines where people work and live on, they're lines where people connect to for Orbital travel. This plays into the most common misconception of Transit that ridership depends on nearby development walking connections which simply isn't true, and Toronto is one of the biggest examples of this.
afransen
Senior Member
Fair enough. They can act as supplemental infrastructure, but highway transitways do not foster livable transit oriented development. That should be more of a focus in transit investment, not merely creating a sorta fast way for a regional bus to get across the region. Reserving rail ROWs is not expensive.
robmausser
Senior Member
Highway ROWs are good for rapid regional transit and inter-city transit. They are only good for local express transit as busways, as the bus can use the ROW to bypass a bunch of stops/traffic, and then leave the ROW and then go directly to the area of development. But they must be supplemented with a local every-stop bus as well.