Yonge-Steeles corridor study

[innsertnamehere]

You expected class at Yonge and Steeles?

Thats Yonge and Langstaff, not Steeles..

 

[jaycola]

Yonge and Steeles Area Regional Transportation Study
https://www.york.ca/wps/wcm/connect/yorkpublic/6f745f47-97e7-4d3e-b004-bf0017996ad6/nov+5+yonge.pdf?MOD=AJPERES

"The Yonge and Steeles Area is Unique and Requires a Strategic Approach The Yonge and Steeles Area is unlike any other in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). The study area, as shown on Exhibit ES.1, encompasses three local municipalities in addition to the Region of York. Over the next 17 years, the area is expected to attract up to 39,000 additional residents and 11,600 additional jobs. These represent increases of 45% and 47% respectively. At the same time, aside from the Yonge Subway Extension and rapid transit on Steeles Avenue, there are limited opportunities to significantly expand transportation capacity. Looking across the boundary of Toronto with its surrounding Region’s there is no other area which is similar in terms of growth and transportation challenges.
...One of the key conclusions out of this study is that the road network is already failing today during the peak periods and there are few opportunities to increase arterial road capacity for automobiles. As a result, future development will need to be accommodated in a way that maximizes the potential for walking, cycling and transit modes. Even with this shift, residents and employees can expect continued congestion."

 

[canarob]

Keep in mind already huge amount of transit rider volume along Yonge Corridor between Finch to Steeles an Steeles to Highway 7 via all the buses from TTC, Viva, YorkRegion and GO using this stretch of Yonge Street to get to Finch Station,... extending the Yonge Subway line northward and thus the terminus station further north to Steeles or Highway 7 or RichmondHillCentre would surely benefit 905ers more,.... that's why Toronto taxpayers have been hessitate to pay,.. especially since it'll mean even more 905ers on our already over-capacity Yonge subway line,.... thus it never got extended further than Finch station which opened in 1974,.... 41 years later, Yonge & Finch is now basically the centre of the GTA when you look at population distribution,....

York Region would pay for the section north of Steeles, in both capital and operating funds, as it is doing with the western line 1 extension to Highway 7. Totally agree that Finch is a pretty random place to stop the line if you were to look at this objectively.

 

[innsertnamehere]

York Region isn't paying for operations of Spadina, as of right now. Only Capital.

This may change as the opening date approaches.