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Yonge Subway line desperately close to bursting. ⇒

   26 March 2012, lunch time

I love how the city has ignored this problem for years, to the point where they are extending the line even further North. What could go wrong?

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  1. Most of the major lines whether subway, streetcar, or bus are jammed during rush hour. I’ve never been packed tighter in any city than when taking the King streetcar in the morning. NYC transit seems empty comparatively.

    by mk on March 26 2012, 9:26 pm   #

  2. Does anyone ever mention the benefits of having subways in these articles? 20 million people a year use Union, and an extra platform will cost $161 million split three ways? It sounds like a good deal.

    by mk on March 26 2012, 9:37 pm   #

  3. I think it’s hard for the city to get funding to build subways in the core, even though that’s really where they are needed. For whatever reason the University-Spadina line is much emptier than the Yonge line. I think fewer things funnel into it. The city could probably use a few more lines that run into the core that aren’t Yonge.

    by Ramanan on March 27 2012, 10:11 am   #

  4. Downtown relief line. However, Toronto never buys things we actually need. And in the cases where we do buy things we need, some nimby neighborhood association will pop up out of nowhere, make a big fuss, and make it so that it never happens.

    by Iluvitar on March 27 2012, 3:20 pm   #

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