Also what happens if we factor in:
- Ridership on parallel bus routes e.g. 39 Finch East, 199 Finch Rocket, 53 Steeles East, 95 York Mills
- Car traffic on Sheppard and parallel roads such as 401, Finch, Steeles, York Mills/Ellesmere/Wilson
401 alone has a capacity of 14000-18000 cars/hour/direction (assume 2000 cars/hour/lane for simplicity, I know with the 2 second rule it should be 1800 but people tailgate and Wikipedia says 2000) and carries far more people than the Sheppard line. Also all the east west bus routes from Eglinton northward carry far more people than the Sheppard line as well.