Numbers don't add up in the 416. ⇒
6 July 2007, early morning
"If you are a young family looking to stay in 416, reduce your carbon footprint, walk to your downtown job, the message buried in the new tax is: take a hike to 905. We don't want you."
This is a post from my link log: If you click the title of this post you will be taken the web page I am discussing.
Amen.
The only way a young family with modest means can get by and live in this city is by renting. If you want to own, you can’t afford Toronto. Even without the new tax.
The TTC is something that I pick on regularly. I drive…but I WANT to take the TTC when I can. Sometimes I have to go to downtown government branches from my office, and I’ve tried. I really have. It took me 45 minutes to get from Dufferin and Bloor to King and University.
That was by subway.
I don’t even want to tell you how long it took by College Streetcar when I tried to do it that way.
It takes me 20 minutes by car. I just don’t have that kind of time in my workday to give to the TTC.
I just don’t.
It needs to work better.
It’s not “the better way”, it’s the slower, more frustrating way.
by radmila on July 6 2007, 11:11 am #
I find the subway is freaky fast. The Bloor-Line is pretty quick I’d say. When you get right downtown, the stops are so close together, it’s usually a minute between stops, from door chime to door chime. I can’t imagine why it’d take 45 minutes to get from Bloor and Dufferin to King and University, unless things were acting up. Downtown the streetcar system is really broken. I regularly walk Bathurst or Queen because the Streetcars are so absent/slow. That is why I’m not so sure the new LRT system they are proposing is going to be the new awesome. I don’t understand how they plan to get around all the problems the current street cars have. Spadina has a right of way, and crap loads of cars, but i’d say it’s not with out its problems.
by ramanan on July 6 2007, 1:04 pm #