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Tunneling work begins on next phase of Toronto subway extension
Been in and out of Toronto too many times. The city that tries very hard to be like New York City. Will it solve any traffic issues? Not really. The overwhelming number of people in cars are coming from or going to a place without public transit. This point is always lost on the taxpayer subsidized transit planners in every city, not just Toronto. No country can afford to put a transit system into every small town and neighborhood.
I have been to Toronto many, many times and have not ONCE had a car, because I find the transit system overall so much more convenient for where I need to go. I feel like, if I had a car I’d get lost to be honest! Once the rail link between Pearson Airport and downtown is completed, there really won’t be a need to have a car in Toronto at all IMO.
About time that Toronto did this!
What I wonder about this is: how did Rob Ford let this construction continue, after canning other subway projects (at great expense to the people of Toronto)
Jeffery you drive a truck and did not walk around there and work there. I worked there multiple times and was surprised at how many people did not wear heavy winter clothing even in the middle of the winter. They live miles outside of the center of town and they used covered walkways to go from apartments to enclosed train stations and then once they are in downtown Toronto they use the underground pathways to get to their office buildings. Even in NYC I know of people that would rather spend two hours in traffic in their car and walk 12 blocks from a supposed cheap west Side parking lot rather than take a train to get right to their office.
So, Jeffery, Toronto is a small town eh? (Sorry) I guess that you don’t know how expanding transit systems helps cities grows. Allow me to use the New York City Transit Authority as an example. When the city started to build the subway, land speculators started to buy land near the subway line. As the subways went to the outer boroughs, more land was bought up they built housing again near subway lines. So people commuted to Manhattan for work. Then they went back to their homes in the evening. Because of this, the latest report shows that New York City has a population of over 836 million people. Alot of this is due to the expansion of the subway system. So, please due some research before you speak. You twit!
Toronto needs better regional rail connections, to London, Kitchener, Niagara Falls, and Peterborough.
Mr. Guse… Give it a rest! Why subscribe, if you can only rant negatively about EVERYTHING!!
anyone know who has the contract to run the TBM,s i work for a canadian company called REDPATH we are working at a coalmine here in australia cutting roadways soon we will be working at another mine and using a TBM to make the tunnels into the new mine
Jeffery seeing as you live in the states why bothering commenting on a Canadian issue, your country has its own problems. The TTC is very well used and the current mayor is no friend of the loonie left therefore he approved this for good reason