rbt
Senior Member
I forgot to add, if Stintz thought it was an improved plan, why did she not bring it to Council.
It could not win the vote.
I forgot to add, if Stintz thought it was an improved plan, why did she not bring it to Council.
Eglinton needs a subway long before Sheppard. Sheppard can wait.
I don't think amalgamation has anything to do with it. Downtown councilors (Jack Layton in particular) had no interest before amalgamation when a DRL was considered in the 80's.In a word, amalgamation.
A multi-billion dollar line that is perceived to only serve downtown just isn't politically feasible, not without doing something for the suburbs first.
What's that list supposed to prove?
I don't think local bank branches, local drug stores, or Hallmark Cards are the trip generators that you make them out to be. This is not justification for.
I also find the large number of (*) destinations funny. The biggest ones (the college and university campuses) aren't even on the subway and as you so convincingly put it, only a short bus ride away, where short means a transfer wait and 10-15 minutes or longer ride.
If anything that just proves subway is poorly suited for widely dispersed destinations in the suburbs.
I think what it means is depending on the situation, the limiter is going to be the low frequency of the connecting buses rather than the speed of LRT vs. subways.
AoD
For Bayview/Eglinton or Laird/Eglinton, you should add Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital (*) (my workplace), Toronto Rehabilitation Institute (*), and CAMH (*). How can you ignore Celestica, which is right at the corner of Don Mills and Eglinton?Here I am trying to compile a list of major trip generators along the proposed Eglinton line, and Sheppard subway extension. Trip generators that are accessible by a short bus or subway ride are denoted by (*):
Scarborough Centre - Scarborough Town Centre, Scarborough Civic Centre, Government of Canada, Telus, TD Waterhouse, RBC, Toyota Canada (*), Centennial College (*), CTV (*)
Kennedy/Sheppard - Agincourt Centre, Reuters (1km walk), Delta hotel (1km walk)
Victoria Park/Sheppard & Consumers Road - Shoppers Drug Mart, Direct Energy, Hallmark Cards, Enbridge, Rogers, Universal Studios, World Wrestling Entertainment, Eastern Construction, Securitas, Unisys, Days Inn, Radisson, many others
Don Mills/Sheppard: Fairview Mall, Seneca College (*), National Post (*), Realtor (*), Thales (*), a number of other employers around York Mills/Don Mills
Leslie/Sheppard: North York General Hospital, Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine
Bayview/Sheppard: Bayview Village
Yonge/Sheppard: Teachers Pension Plan, Invesco Trimark, Franklin Templeton, Nestle, RBC, Toronto District School Board, Cadbury, Toronto Centre for the Arts
Bathurst/Sheppard: Prosserman Jewish Community Centre (*)
Downsview: Downsview Airport (*), Downsview Park (*), York University (*), Yorkdale Mall (*)
Victoria Park/Eglinton: Eglinton Square
Wynford Drive/Don Mills & Eglinton: Ontario Science Centre, Home Depot, McDonald's Canada, Bell, Shops at Don Mills (*)
Leslie/Eglinton: Wrigley Canada (*), Four Seasons Hotels (*)
Bayview/Eglinton: Sunnybrook Hospital (*), CNIB (*), Glendon College (*)
Yonge/Eglinton: RioCan, Canadian Tire, TVO, Investors Group, Thomas Cook
Scarlett/Eglinton: West Park Healthcare Centre
Renforth/Eglinton (unfunded extension): Citigroup, SimplexGrinnell, Ricoh Canada, Pepsi Canada, General Mills Canada, HP, Canadian Standards Association, Investment Planning Counsel of Ontario, Nokia Siemens, Telus, Bell, Research in Motion, TD, Hasbro Canada, Accenture, Cotton Ginny Limited, Nissan, Carlson Marketing, Intuit, Canada Post (some of these require a bus ride), many others
Pearson Airport: Airport Terminal 1, Airport Terminal 3
I collected most of these from Google Maps/Google Street View, please suggest any errors/omissions
Also notice that there is very little employment on the Eglinton line between Yonge and the airport, so I think that the phase 2 unfunded extension (as heavy rail) to Pearson Airport is ESSENTIAL to achieving high ridership, connecting with the huge employment areas in Mississauga around the airport will increase ridership and relieve the busiest section of Hwy 401 (just east of the 409, and tends to be worse going west in AM and east in PM)