Eh, guys, tell me, why do that? What is wrong with the RT? I kinda like it. If there should be a change I'd rather make it a "blue line", than have it eaten up by the b-d line.
Who cares? It will get cars off the road. It would provide rapid transit to more people.
What is it with people in other cities telling Toronto to build elevated lines?
Will you like the SRT even when the vehicles fall apart around you like
The Brave Engineer? When they shut down the SRT for 3 years and muck up what should be an easily managed bustitution (though one that likely won't be as fast as the SRT, will be at the mercy of traffic, and may require new and more distant bus bays to handle the 80 or so necessary bus shuttles), we could be talking about how many cars are
added to the road...we already know that none will be taken off the road after it's done.
Only if you low-ball the subway costs. The extension and conversion is $1.4-billion; and most of that is for the extension, and the new platform at Kennedy. The conversion itself is only a fraction of the budget. To build subway for that money, you'd have to achieve $233-million a kilometre - which is lower than any current planning number. But even if you could - you just can't compare the numbers. You have to compare the cost of the upgrade - and perhaps the Kennedy platform to the 6-km subway. Anything else is deceptive.
Spend five seconds poring over what the actual per/km pricetag is for various components and you'll know that it could easily be done for $233M/km, but a lot depends on how much of the station at STC can be reused, whether a station will be built in the hydro corridor at Lawrence or if they'll acquire land for one, whether or not they'll need or tie yard improvements to the cost like they did with Spadina, etc. Just because something should be done or could be done doesn't mean the TTC/city will have any interest in making it happen. And if the city did built it, the only alignment they've ever looked at (also the shortest and most direct alignment) was through Brimley & Lawrence, which means a 5km, 2 station extension, which lowers the cost even further. It may or may not be the ideal alignment but that's what would happen. You would know this if you had any interest in Scarborough and not just an interest in posting contrarian nonsense. 6km! OMG, you're being deceptive! How can you compare a 6km extension to a 5km extension???
This thread is about progress on Transit City. That's why I post here. You have no interest in Transit City, and only seem to highjack the thread with this NIMBYism. Why do you post here?
I posted here to point out that Keithz was right and Justin10000 was wrong and that the SRT extension is an amazingly useless waste of time and money. You posted because you go from thread to thread replying to every post I make even when the subject matter is completely foreign to you, hijacking the thread with ramblings about fruit and laments that everyone else (but never you) is rude. ... learn what NIMBY actually means.