since the infrastructure is still in tact why not put down light rail tracks and overhead and get additional rolling stock like the vehicles the TTC already have?
Knowing how well Toronto handles its transit projects I expect the subway to come in massively over budget, be 7 years late be underused since most people will continue to drive because it's so much faster. Oh, and no audit will ever happen so the public knows why it ended up this way. It will be quietly swept under the rug just like Eglington crosstown which is 7 years late, 2 billion dollars over budget and we still don't know if it will open this decade or next! By the time it finally opens it will not have enough capacity since it will handle growth at levels it was expected at the end of its service life rather than the beginning.
AGREED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The Eglinton LRT was FORCED ON TORONTO by the logical and sensible Rob Ford .......................and he shamed his Silly Hall colleagues into allowing the Eglinton LRT to be built!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sadly - the construction of the LRT was put into the hands of RABID LIE-berals and radical civil servants at Metrolinx - and they have shown us their vision for the future - LIE-beral style - where govt workers get grand pay raises while city services COLLAPSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! In the LIE-beral planned future - YOU HAD BETTER BE PREPARED TO WALK - because you WILL NOT BE RIDING IN A BUS, SUBWAY OR CAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It is a direct attack on Scarborough. Doug Ford considers this to be a low-income ghetto filled with useless people on ODSP and welfare who don't vote anyway. So, his solution is to spend the money elsewhere. Most of the places served by the new subway are high-income neighbourhoods where most people are well above the poverty line. Scarborough has 20 or so buildings with up to 10,000 people living in them run by TCHC clustered in the area around Kingston and Lawrence. This is why the Eglington East LRT was cancelled by the Ford government. The city of Toronto is going to have to come up with the money all by themselves if it wants pot to build it. Neither the provincial nor the federal government has any interest in improving transit in this area of the city.
Only in Canada (I was going to sayNorth America but even the Americans are more logical) would a public transport agency be stupid enough to shut down a light rail line.
This isn't a Canada thing so much as it is an Ontario. Other transit agencies in the country don't do things this dumb, with the exception of OC Transpo, which built an LRT on what could've been served better with heavy rail or SkyTrain.
What do you mean, Americans are even worse; with massive amounts of cities taking out their streetcar networks, NYC Subway have a lot of ghost lines and removal of the Third Avenue Elevated Line, and unfinished subway systems with tunnels and entrances in place.
Absolutely insane that a first would country can’t figure out how to make upgrades without shutting down a train for SEVEN YEARS. THAT IS NOT A REPLACEMENT. THAT IS YOU SAYING YOU DONT CARE ABOUT SCARBOROUGH.
Trust me Seven years is a joke. I would stand a better chance of winning the 40-million-dollar Lotto max then betting on Metrolinkx finishing a project on time and under budget. I am betting 14 years at this point and double or triple the initial budget.
Did that girl really say its not fair to international students? 😂. She almost certainly wouldn't have anywhere near those same expectations for her own country.
More like an unwanted accident that you don't talk about in polite company as a result of a daughter's carelessness that you then kick out of the house as soon as they turn 16!
since the infrastructure is still in tact why not put down light rail tracks and overhead and get additional rolling stock like the vehicles the TTC already have?
Remove the linear induction motor and order a few LRVs for use until the line 2 extension opens.
Knowing how well Toronto handles its transit projects I expect the subway to come in massively over budget, be 7 years late be underused since most people will continue to drive because it's so much faster. Oh, and no audit will ever happen so the public knows why it ended up this way. It will be quietly swept under the rug just like Eglington crosstown which is 7 years late, 2 billion dollars over budget and we still don't know if it will open this decade or next! By the time it finally opens it will not have enough capacity since it will handle growth at levels it was expected at the end of its service life rather than the beginning.
AGREED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Eglinton LRT was FORCED ON TORONTO by the logical and sensible Rob Ford .......................and he shamed his Silly Hall colleagues into allowing the Eglinton LRT to be built!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sadly - the construction of the LRT was put into the hands of RABID LIE-berals and radical civil servants at Metrolinx - and they have shown us their vision for the future - LIE-beral style - where govt workers get grand pay raises while city services COLLAPSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In the LIE-beral planned future - YOU HAD BETTER BE PREPARED TO WALK - because you WILL NOT BE RIDING IN A BUS, SUBWAY OR CAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It is a direct attack on Scarborough. Doug Ford considers this to be a low-income ghetto filled with useless people on ODSP and welfare who don't vote anyway. So, his solution is to spend the money elsewhere. Most of the places served by the new subway are high-income neighbourhoods where most people are well above the poverty line. Scarborough has 20 or so buildings with up to 10,000 people living in them run by TCHC clustered in the area around Kingston and Lawrence. This is why the Eglington East LRT was cancelled by the Ford government. The city of Toronto is going to have to come up with the money all by themselves if it wants pot to build it. Neither the provincial nor the federal government has any interest in improving transit in this area of the city.
A world class mono rail would resolve most transit issues in Toronto . Take a look at Japan or Dubai , Las Vegas . ✨🇨🇦✨
Only in Canada (I was going to sayNorth America but even the Americans are more logical) would a public transport agency be stupid enough to shut down a light rail line.
This isn't a Canada thing so much as it is an Ontario. Other transit agencies in the country don't do things this dumb, with the exception of OC Transpo, which built an LRT on what could've been served better with heavy rail or SkyTrain.
What do you mean, Americans are even worse; with massive amounts of cities taking out their streetcar networks, NYC Subway have a lot of ghost lines and removal of the Third Avenue Elevated Line, and unfinished subway systems with tunnels and entrances in place.
SkyTrain in Vancouver is literally the same technology as this POS, but they've maintained it better than the idiots in Ontario.
Absolutely insane that a first would country can’t figure out how to make upgrades without shutting down a train for SEVEN YEARS.
THAT IS NOT A REPLACEMENT. THAT IS YOU SAYING YOU DONT CARE ABOUT SCARBOROUGH.
Trust me Seven years is a joke. I would stand a better chance of winning the 40-million-dollar Lotto max then betting on Metrolinkx finishing a project on time and under budget. I am betting 14 years at this point and double or triple the initial budget.
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Closing a railroad that costs millions to build is so fucking stupid to me.
Then do some research and you will see why its closed..... its well past its life span
@@TWPRP the rails are past their lifespan. the actual infrastructure (stations, tunnels, bridges) are not.
I'd keep it running until 2020.
You know what they can do bring back the Scarborough RT if not replace it with Streetcars or LRT
The rt had it's days.
Did that girl really say its not fair to international students? 😂. She almost certainly wouldn't have anywhere near those same expectations for her own country.
Move to Etobicoke.... No one likes Scarbo
Scarborough is the neglected child of Toronto 😢
More like an unwanted accident that you don't talk about in polite company as a result of a daughter's carelessness that you then kick out of the house as soon as they turn 16!
Just tive max priority to bicycles, and make sure busses don’t get stuck in traffic, cheapest improvements.
Is Scarborough actually part of Toronto? If not, there are advantages and disadvantages to not being part of the city proper.
@@PenskePC17Scarborough was amalgamated into Toronto in 1998. Scarborough lost all its autonomy.