Dan's GTA Transit Plan

In light of Metrolinx and GO Transit finally merging, I thought I would talk about transit in the GTA. Let's start with subway lines.

Downtown Relief Line

Going from approximately Pape through downtown via either Union, Queen, or King (my preference is Union) and to Dundas West. This would attract tons of new riders from new developing neighbourhoods and relieve both Yonge-Bloor and the King and Queen streetcars.

Sheppard: Downsview to STC

The Sheppard subway has been criticized by many for not being busy enough. Problem is, it was never finished. Originally it was to end at Victoria Park. We need to extend it at least that far, but preferably to its natural terminus at Scarborough Town Centre. In the west, it should be extended a couple stops to Downsview so that it has connection with the Spadina line.

Eglinton

An Eglinton subway was cancelled by Harris, but it doesn't mean we shouldn't build it. At least build the portion of the Transit City line that is going to be tunneled as subway to start. Then in the future we can extend it further.

Replace the SRT with subway from Kennedy to STC

The SRT was a mistake. We should get rid of it completely, and build a subway along a new alignment through to STC serving Scarborough Hospital along the way.

Yonge to Richmond Hill

Yonge should be extended to Richmond Hill. It would take a lot of buses off the road and prevent the wasting of building a pointless BRT up there.

Bloor to Mississauga City Centre

Peel Region has over a million residents and has yet to have a subway. Bloor should at least be extended to East Mall and Sherway, and if we're going to extend it westerly, it should serve the largest trip generator in the 905.

Moving onto LRT:

Finch

The city is planning a Finch West LRT and interlining it with Sheppard East. To my mind, that makes zero sense. Especially in my plan. Therefore, I believe Finch should be a continuous corridor along it's length as LRT.

Hurontario

Replacing Mississauga's busiest bus route with an LRT would connect Port Credit, MCC and Downtown Brampton.

Jane

Don Mills

I can't say for certain that this is an exchaustive list of lines that should be built, but they are important to me.