innsertnamehere
Superstar
401 traffic won't use the subway as most of the traffic originates or ends outside of the subways reach.
all the malls and hospitals along Sheppard are already served by the subway. As for the office complex, I believe that when planning the Sheppard LRT they looked at extending the subway to consumers and building the transfer there, and determined it would be better to simply stick the LRT underground at Consumers.
Sheppard has some of the worst congested intersections as it is right beside the 401, and as I said most 401 trips would not change over to the subway as most of the trip do not originate and begin at a subway stop for people who use the 401.
car traffic =/= viable subway routes. By that measure highway 7 badly needs a subway, but that also isn't right.
and as I said, possibly the most important thing for suburban subways are the bus connections, which Yonge and Scarborough have in spades that Sheppard fails to have. Other than the Sheppard bus itself (which would be replaced anyway) there are no truly busy bus routes that intersect it. There would be essentially 0 regional connections for the line (unlike Scarborough and Yonge) meaning that almost all of the ridership on the line would have to originate very close to the line, and you need much more than a couple of highrises every couple of km for it to make sense.
all the malls and hospitals along Sheppard are already served by the subway. As for the office complex, I believe that when planning the Sheppard LRT they looked at extending the subway to consumers and building the transfer there, and determined it would be better to simply stick the LRT underground at Consumers.
Sheppard has some of the worst congested intersections as it is right beside the 401, and as I said most 401 trips would not change over to the subway as most of the trip do not originate and begin at a subway stop for people who use the 401.
car traffic =/= viable subway routes. By that measure highway 7 badly needs a subway, but that also isn't right.
and as I said, possibly the most important thing for suburban subways are the bus connections, which Yonge and Scarborough have in spades that Sheppard fails to have. Other than the Sheppard bus itself (which would be replaced anyway) there are no truly busy bus routes that intersect it. There would be essentially 0 regional connections for the line (unlike Scarborough and Yonge) meaning that almost all of the ridership on the line would have to originate very close to the line, and you need much more than a couple of highrises every couple of km for it to make sense.