nfitz
Superstar
Good grief - there's so many mistakes there. Particularly the use of the Consumer Price Index to price inflation. Should use a Construction Price index. There's no indication which projects include operations, and which are just construction. Which ones include rolling stock, and which ones don't. Which ones include land assembly, and which ones don't. And most importantly which ones include financing costs, and which ones don't.See for yourself - an inflation adjusted database of transit projects, excluding operations, maintenance, and rolling stock, in USD: https://transitcosts.com/projects/
Pay close attention to South Korean, Italian, Spanish, Turkish, and Scandinavian projects - these generally represent global best practice.
It's a similar walk from the subway to the GO terminal at Kipling as from Toronto Island airport to the 509 streetcar stop - about 250 metres. A distance many perceive as insurmountable.You should time your transfer time when you travel in Europe as they are long as well having to climbing up and down stairs since there are no elevators or escalates in those stations.
That 7 minute walk is a pain, but being underground is not that bad in poor weather compared to the shorter walking distance to/from a bus stop. If you are going from X to y not using transit, not a bad walk for that 7 minute walk.
If we apply the same principle, we can fix that by building two concrete walls along Eireann Quay with a glass sheet on top of it, and move the entrance to the airport to Bathurst and Queens Quay!
Good news then for the only 5-minute walk from Danforth station to Main Street station! Perhaps we could simply knock it up with some plywood while no one is looking!