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I've always been dumbfounded why this was declared the #1 priority. It seems that TTC is using it as a kind of testing ground for some reason. Maybe it's a good idea to run your experiments in a wasteland nobody really cares for?
A Progress LRT from STC to Malvern Town Centre using the hydro corridor,
All very good points. I believe most of the ground levels have been provisioned for a future conversion to retail, for when the time is right, but in the meanwhile are serving some other purposes.
A Progress LRT from STC to Malvern Town Centre using the hydro corridor, would have been shorter and a good test run. They could have combined that with a subway extension or LRT till Kennedy.
If we're talking about the most urgent transit needs or the best place to build an LRT line right now to solve existing and identifiable transit problems, replacing the Progress bus is pretty far down the list of priorities.
The point of any LRT on Progress, like the SRT extension would be to replace a lot of bus routes from Malvern to STC. Not just the Progress bus. Milner, Nugget, Progress, Neilson and Sheppard would all see large chunks of their ridership shifted onto the LRT. That's not to say that it should be priority. But let's not misrepresent what an RT extension to Malvern is supposed to be for.
No, they haven't. Theoretically, anything could happen in the future, but the amenities facilities and townhouses will convert to another religion before they convert to retail. I think at least one building currently in Sheppard West's pipeline is proposing live/work units, though.
Why are townhouses a problem? Many vibrant downtown streets have townhouses fronting the street.
I'll see if I can find the article, but I read one recently discussing how mid-rise developers have ground floor units designed explicitly for future conversion to retail. It wasn't about this area specifically, but from what I've seen from the outside, a lot (not all) of these buildings look like they have taken such a future into account.
Whoever said there was lots of resident support for this LRT, pay attention. The residents are finally wising up to the fact that this is just a prettier streetcar and realizing this is not the 'rapid transit' they were promised.