leopetr
Active Member
^^ How's Langstaff an artificial terminal? It's at Highway 7 (the main E-W road and soon to be the main E-W high density corridor,) and the 407, which makes for an amazing transit terminal.
Great for transfers, not so good as an actual stop. There's nothing aside from the movie theatre within walking distance. Yonge is far, High Tech Rd is on an embankment with no pedestrian stairs, and Highway 7 is a limited access highway for that stretch.
I suppose they might redevelop the movie theatre, its vast parking lot, and the fenced-off Home Depot across the tracks eventually, but right now the station is a bit of an armpit.
It especially makes no sense to try to pull LRT on the entire route, as ridership has definitely not reached LRT levels north of 7, and especially not in Aurora and Newmarket.
A St. Clair-style median for BRT is supposed to start construction on Davis Drive in Newmarket this year, as well as on bits of Yonge and Highway 7. So, Newmarket is getting two BRT right-of-way as I understand things. Those have a similar capacity to LRT.
LRT on a portion of the route (Steeles-Highway 7 or Finch-Major Mac) would be an even worse option, since it unnecessarily splits the route up with little gain, not to mention overlooking the needs of York Region pretty much totally.
I agree. Three technologies is one too many for the Yonge corridor.