Streety McCarface
Senior Member
For the TYSSE, it's actually exceeding Sheppard on a ridership per kilometer basis, however, we don't entirely know how it has affected other stations on the spadina line. For instance, I would think that Sheppard West's ridership and Wilson's ridership would heavily decrease because of the extension, but we'll have to wait for a ridership update in 2-3 years before we know anything for certain. As far as redevelopment potential, I'm not even sure there's much room for that at many of the stations. York U, HWY 407, and Steeles west aren't really prime candidates for that. VMC, Finch West, and Downsview Park on the other hand have a lot of potential or at least some. Again, Sheppard hasn't fully matured itself so we'll have to see how its ridership grows before we can conclude anything.Not surprised at the numbers as I was expecting this. The so call claim the 407 parking lot was going to be full within the first few months have been miss.
Given the size of 407 parking lot, not close to been full. Pioneer parking lot is a lot bigger than 407. No parking at Vaughan and Sheppard station
As for US stations, no clue since I have never visited them in the first place nor looked at numbers for them.
As for ridership, one year is way too soon to compare to other lines and need to wait to see what 5/10 years numbers look like. Also, Sheppard had already development along its route as well ridership, where the extension has none of this. Once a number of the new towers are built and have residents over the next 10 years for VMC, ridership for VMC will climb.
407 and DVP are going to be sitting ducks for about a decade before RER and the 407 transitway are built, we all knew that, but they're seeing better usage than I predicted, so it's good that a good 6000 people are using the two stations combined.