scarberiankhatru
Senior Member
If you find it so inexcusable then why don't you spend this time and walk to the city hall, put up a sign, and fight for it to be changed. Along with all the other things against the TTC you have to complain about.
I find the constant pounding and complaining on this forum a bit naive. We could all agree with you and it still wouldn't make a difference other than us agreeing with you, which not all of us do.
If you want change you got to go out and fight for it. Sitting at home in front of a computer ranting on an internet forum ain't gonna get you what you want.
Frankly I find the designs OK to accept. York's entrance is located in a good location simply because there isn't much of anything due east of that point at this moment. Also to add that I believe the area due east of the station is some type of a reserved green area, so I believe nothing much would go there in the future either (correct me if I'm wrong).
Sheppard may seem to be a bit overbuilt at this point, but then so was the entire Spadina subway line when it was being constructed. The point of building infrastructure like this is so that they'll still be adequate 50 years from now. I don't understand why people don't get this. It’s the same thing with stops like York Mills, Lawrance and even Sheppard when they were planned. Those stations were also much bigger than it was justified for with the ridership that it served when they were constructed. But look where we are now.
We're building something that's meant to serve not only us but our children and their children and even their children's children. Let's keep that in mind when before we start complaining and remember that it will be much more expansive to change something after it's built than to do it right the first place.
You're bitching about a complaint (that I've already brought up at meetings and via email, not that such actions make the slightest difference, which everyone knows unless they're naive...posting here is actually more effective since it can trigger multiple people to complain and act - even two voices are better than one). Seriously, why not spend your time going out and having children so that your children's children can enjoy this massively overbuilt station instead of bitching about complaints?
Sorry, but Lawrence is not overbuilt...you're not quite grasping the concept of overbuilding here. York Mills isn't, either.
Yes, you're wrong about York U. The land closer to Keele may not all be developed, but much of it is slated to be, and the point about multiple entrances pertains to the platform itself, which goes from north of York Blvd to south of York Blvd yet only has one large entrance into the Commons. Now that's building for the future!
This would probably be why Sheppard West station is being built the size that it is: http://www.toronto.ca/planning/downsview.htm
The City clearly has big plans for the Downsview lands. Also, I think it is a bit unfair to call this a waste of money, considering the amount of people that live and could potentially move there (according to the new Downsview Secondary plan, it could be a minimum of 20,000). If we want to talk about a waste of money, I'd probably single out the Hwy 7 subway stop, especially since that is in the middle of nowhere. And remember: it isn't always about south of Bloor.
Note that most of the people slated to live at Downsview will be along Keele, a kilometre or more from Sheppard West, or south of Downsview station.
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