innsertnamehere
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While the East is the obvious priority, getting the western portion built is fairly pressing as well. It wouldn't be as well used as the eastern portion, but It would still be fairly busy.
I think it's imperative that the DRL includes an immediate western branch as well. The streetcars are a complete mess and development is choking the local roads.
How about we focus on the need for higher order transit in the western end instead of thinking about how to best further placate those from the east/north.
In a perfect world, DRL would start from Pape Station, head down south to Queen and head west along Queen Station. A second phase would expand the line to Osgoode Station, and would continue down Queen Street to Parkdale, where the line would take north up to Dundas West.
A subway along Queen would replace the streetcars and spur more development along Queen down to Dufferin Street. Plus Queen is a good happy medium between the streetcar lines on King and College and would compliment them as East/West lines quite nicely. On another note, having hubs at Pape/Danforth and Bloor/Dundas would revitalize and densify both of these areas that need some help. To make this even feasible, I assume it would be years of the cut/cover method along Queen, but one can dream.
While the East is the obvious priority, getting the western portion built is fairly pressing as well. It wouldn't be as well used as the eastern portion, but It would still be fairly busy.
In a perfect world, DRL would start from Pape Station, head down south to Queen and head west along Queen Station. A second phase would expand the line to Osgoode Station, and would continue down Queen Street to Parkdale, where the line would take north up to Dundas West.
A subway along Queen would replace the streetcars and spur more development along Queen down to Dufferin Street. Plus Queen is a good happy medium between the streetcar lines on King and College and would compliment them as East/West lines quite nicely. On another note, having hubs at Pape/Danforth and Bloor/Dundas would revitalize and densify both of these areas that need some help. To make this even feasible, I assume it would be years of the cut/cover method along Queen, but one can dream.
I have never understood this....care to give me the coles notes on why the east is the priority and why it is so obvious?
Because the Yonge line and Yonge/Bloor station is at capacity, which is why "relief" is needed. On the west there is the University/Spadina line.
For example, if you lived at Bathurst & Bloor and worked at King & Bay, you could get onto the Bloor line, transfer south at St George, get off at St Andrew and walk to bay, bypassing Yonge completely.
They haven't been placated yet PERIOD. That's why. The west already has a "relief" of sorts in the University-Spadina line. I'm not saying there's not a case for a western branch, but if the number one issue here is to relieve Yonge, than a western branch does little to help the situation.How about we focus on the need for higher order transit in the western end instead of thinking about how to best further placate those from the east/north.
I'm not sure how that's a perfect world when you build a subway along a street with fairly stable neighbourhoods instead of hitting where all the development is happening (i.e., Distillery/Corktown, St. Lawrence, Financial District/SouthCore, CityPlace, Liberty Village, etc.) and where people actually want to go (into the Financial District/MTCC/Waterfront/RogersCentre).In a perfect world, DRL would start from Pape Station, head down south to Queen and head west along Queen Station. A second phase would expand the line to Osgoode Station, and would continue down Queen Street to Parkdale, where the line would take north up to Dundas West.
Ok I see that....but if you worked at King and Bay and lived at Broadview and Danforth you could transfer south at St George, get off at St Andrew and walk to bay
I also suspect we are underestimating ridership of the Crosstown. I wouldn't be surprised if that alongside with the massive development occurring at Yonge+Eg, we will see Yonge+Eglinton station near capacity.
Is Eglinton Double or single platformed? I can't remember, but I'm guessing single because it used to be a terminus station.
It probably won't get any busier than St. George and St. George has a single platform on the YUS line.