Find me one section of the St. Clair streetcar with kilometre after kilometre of tunnel. Find me one section of St. Clair with an operating speed greater than 16 km/hr in rush hour... greater than 20 km/hr .... greater than 23 km/hr. Heck, much of the Eglinton line is greater than 30 km/hr!
To compare the Transit City LRT lines to St. Clair demonstrates a complete and total lack of understanding of what these LRT are. I'd suggest reading some of the reports.
Transit City seems a lot closer to the Green Line than it does to the St. Clair streetcar.
Another good comparison would be London's Tramlink. Similar operating speed. Used in the suburbs where the Underground and Overground end.
Your refusal to compare St.Clair to SELRT is quite disappointing...
We have all read the specs on Eglinton and we know what's it's about and no one is saying it looks like St.Clair...the underground part anyways...
SELRT is a clear wast of money...
Not going to STC
Which is the natural terminal. THE destination eastbound. STC is where most of Eastern GO Bus stops before going further west or south.
By being linking STC to Sheppard-Yonge, you add ridership to the line...justifying the choice of subway technology
The strongest increase of ridership were on the Sheppard Line
( I showed too many time the numbers proving that SHeppard outperformed some of Chicago L longest line connecting them to the loop)
It will eliminate alot of Go Buses going to Yonge Street from the 401...reducing traffic...
Many of the YRT could just cross Steeles to go to a Sheppard Station instead of going to Finch
A LRT ending at Meadowvale and the Zoo won't boost your ridership and studying that route for subway technology was an insult to Torontonians intelligence. Of Course, a subway to the zoo or Meadowvale makes no sense but to STC, it's a all new story...
Transfer at Don Mills and adding ANOTHER transfer at McCowan for those who want to go to STC
Because we all know the TTC will keep the 190 Rocket...right?...right!
Average speed of 23kph...
I could find you Bus routes that operates as fast...
Stop pacing of 400m
Wasn't Transit City advertised as Rapid Transit???Impossible with a stop every 400m...
People and businesses in that area don't want it.
Those alreasdy using public Transit will continue to do so...People abadonning their car for something they don't want?
Unlikely
Toronto's biggest problem is gridlocks...removing 2 lane from Sheppard wont solve your problem unless your mode of transit is faster
-stops pacing at 800m for higher speed with the 85 every 30 Minutes for local stops like Yonge street
-Not being affected by traffic lights...I know about signal priority and I'm far from impress with St.Clair and Spadina
All of the above could have made this project acceptable but Miller had it in his head that people want cute streetcars to look outside and have a trip "Ã l'Europeenne'...No people want to save time!!!!!
1 BILLION!!!!
Let's be honest... we all know it won't stay at 1 Billion
I wouldn't be surprised that the price tag doubles and then people will have realized that a Sheppard subway wasn't that crazy after all...
Anyone thinking that SELRT wont cost over a Billion is beyond naive...
What was that??? 120KM ok TC for 6 Billion? I see...