Chuck
Senior Member
That's what I've been saying all along (sarcasm and the internet don't mix), I would have rather seen improved GO service before or even as a precurser to a subway extension. This way commuters would have grown accustomed to riding the GO train.
By your logic, the TTC should also not exist in Scarborough, which is served by over twice as many daily GO trips as all of York Region. Naturally, because the Lakeshore Line runs more frequently, and is far closer to Danforth than the Richmond Hill line is to Yonge, the Danforth subway was among the biggest mistakes in Toronto's history.
Obviously, it was not a mistake because subway and commuter serve different markets that by nature do not overlap. Like all large cities, Toronto has both options because it requires both options. Whether or not GO existed, and regardless of the type of service it provides, GO will never be able to service the hundreds of thousands of residents and jobs along Yonge that aren't even located downtown.
Perhaps 25% of the people who board the subway at Highway 7 will head downtown in peak periods, and even less in the off peak. GO is automatically not an option for maybe 75% of the people who will board the subway in York Region, and that number wouldn't budge even if GO ran every 5 minutes and took half as long as it does today.