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Originally Posted by Innsertnamehere
highways into downtown? no thank you. No thank you to new highways in general. Highways in general just create induced demand.
As for subways, they are absurdly expensive. its to the point where you could build 10km of subways for the same price of upgrading 4 of the GO lines to 15 minute electrified service, covering several hundred km. its insane really. subways are only needed where demand is really, really high such as the Yonge extension and DRL.
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I would of course debate the point about subway only being purposeful for extending Yonge and DRL.
Extending the Danforth subway to replace the Scarborough RT is the best choice for that corridor. Scarborough LRT is just replacing a mistake (the RT) with another mistake. It'll function if they switch back to LRT, but its an overall less than optimal solution and induces the same transfer-transfer-transfer problem the RT has.
Really, however, these old tired debates mean nothing in terms of regional rail. Its about time Toronto got frequent, multi-line, fast moving electrified regional rail.