02-11-2016, 02:18 PM
How Toronto got a ‘world-class,’ gold-plated, half-billion-dollar empty train
Quote:Toronto’s high-end airport express train is a failure. A city that urgently needs better transit has been saddled with a deluxe boutique rail service that cost $456-million to build and runs nearly empty, 19½ hours a day...
Trains are running at under 10 per cent capacity and carrying about 2,200 riders a day, and falling – aggravating the frustrations of ordinary Torontonians who badly want and need transit to and from downtown, but whose tax dollars were arbitrarily redirected to this white elephant on wheels...
Metrolinx, the Ontario agency that operates UPX, is under pressure to reduce fares and broaden the line’s appeal to local commuters by integrating it more closely with Toronto’s broader transit network...