05-12-2021, 12:43 PM
My wishes are probably well known by now haha. For me...start smaller. Bury or elevate the parts that take slow turns or go right through intersections, it's terrible. This would also allow them to avoid split sections in the urban cores which is just weird. Imagine if to go southbound on TTC Line 1, you couldn't use College Station, rather you would have to go a few blocks over to a station on Bay Street? It'd make the TTC a lot more useful than it is.
Maybe they didn't need to go all the way to the malls at first to save some money, and simply built a shorter line from say Borden Station to the universities and then expand it as time goes on...but they went all out since they knew, for example, Blockline Station offered huge opportunities for developers to make money off of, as well as redevelopment of Fairview Park Mall (which Cadillac Fairview has master plans for, including offices and condo towers - but they wouldn't have done this if they didn't get to sell it as being close to the LRT).
Maybe they didn't need to go all the way to the malls at first to save some money, and simply built a shorter line from say Borden Station to the universities and then expand it as time goes on...but they went all out since they knew, for example, Blockline Station offered huge opportunities for developers to make money off of, as well as redevelopment of Fairview Park Mall (which Cadillac Fairview has master plans for, including offices and condo towers - but they wouldn't have done this if they didn't get to sell it as being close to the LRT).