Why lrt is better than subway Videos

+DredWolfster Exactly Underground Light rail looks very nice and would have more level bording!Furthermore for transit we currently have a 9.2 Billion dollar Budget when you think about it!1.2 Billion for finch west lrt8 billion- SmarttrackWe can use that money for more Underground lines and subways!Because a) Smarttrack is a waste since the Ontario government already promised that they would electrify the GO RAILS on which Smarttrack is going to run on!b)The Finch West lrt can be replaced with a mostly Underground LRT thatt can go all the way to the airport!

The city may manage to extend the Danforth line to the Scarborough Town Centre in the end.On the other hand some worrying signs is some mention of the city being close to hitting its debt ceiling and the recent downgrading in the provinical government's credit rating.Keeping taxation low enough is usually morre appealing with some voters so it can limit public resources sometimes, including resurrecting the more robust subway expansion momentum this city once saw back in the 1960s and 1970s.In the end though I must say I will never forget coming across this sketch diagram from Mike Filey's book, "Not a one horse town", that has this rendering diagram for the very first rapid transit proposal for this city back from the 1910s, and it would have been basically streetcar rapid transit, with an underground streetcar rapid transit line under Yonge St and the other along Queen St.Streetcars, Light Rail or Trams as they may be called can be pretty versatile, to imagine all our subway stations being underground streetcar stations is fun to imagine. The tracks would be level with the platform at all stations like the underground streetcar terminal at St Clair West station, so you would have no one falling off the platform like with the raised platforms for a subway station.We maybe could have had a whole rapid transit system with statons similar to the underground portion of the harbourfront streetcar, and as always streetcar trams can run in mixed traffic, on a ROW like Spadina or in a tunnel like under Bay St. on the Harbourfront line, whereas subways usually need more special accomodation only being able to run on grade separated guideway and to a greater expense.The LRT link to the STC and Malvern could have even been done and we never would have been stuck with the RT that doesn't run well with ice buildup on the power and magnetic propulsion rail, but that was and still is the long term legacy of the provincial government meddling that took place back in the early 1980s to the expense and detriment of the TTC, Metro and Scarborough.

+DredWolfster I mean i do support the light rail line, but it's sad that as a city we're just giving up on our subway system! Toronto used to have one of the best subway's in the world! And now it's a laughing joke ! Underground LRT's like the Eglinton crosstown, are pretty good because they keep the subway system alive and competing in the world, but also accommodate to the lower ridership of the suburban areas due to it's lower seating, and they cost cheaper to build and operate and maintain so the lower ridership will balance off with that saved money!But that's just my opinion, what do you think?

so vaughan is saying build subways where they're needed..well the biggest need is to relieve pressure off the yonge/university line..so we still need what we've needed for decades - a downtown relief line...every other project should be scrapped and all that money be directed to a relief line FIRST..the problem is the right and the left in this city, nobody, not the mayor and not one councillor knows what to do about transit, they're ALL WRONG

Because its easier to talk shit then to do, he has no fucking plan. Fords idea is to properly connect people of Scarborough to the downtown core with subway, not the small RT line that costs more and more to keep those elevated parts running. Toronto needs nearly 40 billion added to the underground system, we need a subway tax.

LRT's time run is still limited by street lights... I hope he voted for subway or else hes a hypocrite

Why the hell isn't he mayor instead of that idiot Ford?!

Fucken crushed the Subway arguement at 7:09

My god...a counselor with a brain!

Smartest person on council imho.