taal
Senior Member
hmm, I'd like to get a more detailed explanation regarding what that implies, it seems up in the air to me. Moreover, this is not the TTC it is metrolinks!
Option 1 *is* the originally planned route.From the options presented, it sounds like they're studying every possible permutation, except the originally planned route.
Ah, yes. Nope, that plan is not being considered.Not the Transit City plan. The actual original plan where the subway runs from Yonge to Scarborough Centre. The plan that is included in the official plan, and that has been the intended route for decades.
There is more that is odd to this process than that.Doesn't it seem a little odd that they're studying every possible permutation except the one that multiple former studies have determined is optimal.
I don't see any indication that a conversion of the existing subway to LRT is being considered. It's true that one of the scenarios is an extension of the subway from Downview to Consumer's Road, but there is no scenario that goes the other way and removes the subway.
The information that was leaked at the beginning of September had a conversion, so this may be where the idea is coming from - but nowhere in the release documents - so far as I can see - does the idea come up. Or am I missing something?
It would be ideal to have the Sheppard Subway share the Spadina extension and finish Sheppard, it would connect 3 satellite downtowns and should greatly increase traffic on that line.
Maybe even extend Sheppard to Malvern Town Centre.
It seems a little odd that they're studying every possible permutation except the one that multiple studies have determined is optimal.
We'll have to wait and see the March 2009 budget. That will indicate where MoveOntario2020 is an actual plan that will be implemented or just another plan to put to the archives to collect dust with the other dozen or so plans.