Originally Posted by
RonnieLott
yea, and it is pretty useless now, but the city just got millions of dollars from the province of ontario with promises of extending the subway line into scarboro and to york university. Plans of discontinued service also include a fare hike....i know this doesnt effect many people on here, as well as myself, but this city seems to be going right in the ****ter these days. Just venting.
Promises, schpromises. Look at the disaster that is called the Viva "rapid" transit system. Supposed to be launched from Phase 1 to 3. Phase 2 was supposed to completed this year with the introduction of dedicated bus lanes on Yonge st. going up from Finch to Highway 7. This is probably never going to happen now due to opposition from businesses along Yonge and the fact that they are "talking about" extending the subway line from Finch up to Highway 7.
Well whoop-dee-doo. Does anyone want to speculate how long building a subway line is going to take? Especially given that this hasn't even reached the planning stages yet. That and the TTC is also supposed to do the Scarboro extension and York U at the same time?
Also not suprisingly is that new buses that came with Phase 1 of viva have zero support for bikes. Even the old TTC buses have bike racks - nobody bothered to think that bike racks with a new system would be cool? Maybe i'm just biased.
$2.75 to go on uncomfortable, loud and slow buses? No thanks. Not while I can still bike and still beat the bus all the way to the subway. I feel genuine sorrow for the people that are forced to take public transit and have no other choice. And you wonder why this city and it's suburbs are still so car-centric.