I don’t know in what world line 5 being extended is better than a subway. More realistic maybe but better? Are we all trying to get to midtown? I thought union or at least Bloor/danforth was the goal.
Not everyone wants to go downtown Toronto from within Toronto and from the 905 area. Travel should be focuses on a few areas with we are trying to create a seamless network. It is the same thing in Mississauga.
150,000 passengers a day? That's busier than Union Subway station, at that point, there should be a light metro, a GO tunnel and maybe a line 2 extension for good measure. A bus station that busy would be stuck in its own traffic.
The original plan for Mississauga was to see 725,000 residents by 2025 and we have already pass that years ago. CCTT was built in the 90's for a city of 400,000 that was to see 25,000 riders a day. By 2000, CCTT was seeing over 30,000 and that was before GO came to town. The expansion of CCTT was to increase ridership to 40,000 not including Go Transit. When Brampton 502 came to town, it took away a fair chuck of route 19/17 ridership while increasing ridership north of Sq One to the point CCTT and GO are seeing close to 60,000 today if not more. With all the land in MCC still to be built as well see taller tower than what Mississauga want to see, ridership will only increase to around 150,000 a day. I have been using that number over 10 years when calling for a new terminal.
The current model for ridership is 15% and has change that much in the last 25 years. If you try to get to 25-30% model split, it will need a lot better quality of service as well having a fleet and terminals to handle it. If you use 15% for 800,000 today, you get 100,000 riders system wide today. By 2040, the city will be over 1,000,000 on its way to 1.4 million or more by 2060 if not sooner. The city core can handle 300-400,000 residents and workers easy if the right development takes place by 2050 with 45,000 to 60,000 riders at 15% plus riders from outside the core. Going to 25% ridership will be 75-100,000 plus outside ridership. We have no more road space and the city not wanting to widen road like the past, transit is needed to move people more than before. mL has no plans to increase parking spaces at various stations that already seen parking garages built for them as they are sitting on value land that has a higher return rate for development that a vehicle that may park there for 40 hours a week.
There been calls for well over 10 years to reduced the number of parking spots at GO stations as they create gridlock both within the parking area as well on the road after a train has drop riders off
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