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Not unreasonable ... but not happening. It's too late. But even subway to Agincourt would be about $1.5 billion. I don't see any point worrying about these fantasy plans. Is Sheppard East where I would have started ... no. Is there any point fighting it? No.
Given that their starting in the East, I still believe that they are leaving some room for discussion here. And I am hoping that a change of mayor might bring some rationality in to this discussion. Beyond that, cost issues are not necessarily insurmountable now that Metrolinx is up and running. If the business case is there for it, I believe that they would support an extension to Agincourt at minimum. Second to STC, Agincourt is a great logical terminus for subway and LRT or BRT.
True ... with the design the way it is now, it would likely make more sense to cut back the LRT to Victoria Park, and build subway at Consumers Drive. But that's a debate for 2030.
The TTC ruled that out because of the cost of taking the subway across the 404 and because of the large amount of riders from the east actually terminating at Don Mills. The only way an extension is going to happen, I think, is if it goes to a much more logical terminus like Agincourt.
If you only have subway stops at Victoria Park and Agincourt, then you'd still have significant local demand.
Which a bus service could easily handle. Yonge seems to do fine with a bus service. I am sure Sheppard East could survive with half the service it has today if there's a subway in place.