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T3G said:
Both of these things can be true at once (shocker, I know). If you coordinate a project with a developer, you can get density in a place that previously didn't have it, but if you don't, you get ugly, low rise sprawl like around Kennedy and Warden. Or Highway 407. Or Pioneer Village, Finch West, or Downsview Park. You bringing up the Flushing line example is something of a red herring, because you make it sound as though the presence of a subway line alone was what resulted in the area being built up, when the reality is far more complex. If you don't have forward thinking people who capitalize on such an asset, you get nothing at all, as at Downsview Park which, nearly a decade after its opening, remains surrounded by a barren, empty wasteland. Your example is a little like pointing to the Prince Edward Viaduct, which was specifically futureproofed by a forward thinking visionary, and assuming that all bridges come futureproofed.
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I invite you to explore this new fangled thing called "zoning". You may find that the regulations set out within it answer many of your questions as to why things are not built in some places. Here we can see the vast majority of residential land around Kennedy and Warden station are strictly zoned for low rise, detached family homes, with this modestly changing only in the last half decade. I did not think I would have to explain this on this forum but here we are.

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The first three decades of Queens development was not burdened by such egregious government overreach, and as such it flourished. And yes, subway access to Manhattan was the primary driver of urban growth, to claim otherwise is just patently ahistorical.

Downsview Park has remained unbuilt due to incompetent public sector management, and over regulation. If you would like other examples, I invite you to visit 95% of Create(nothing)TO's properties.
Had Downsview been severed into parcels and sold off to private builders when it was decommissioned years ago, it would today be a fully built out community. You may find that your beloved public sector is the root of a lot of the stagnation and mis-aimed growth that you ascribe to the people who actually build things, including the home you're typing from today.
 
jmi22 said:
The worst mayor we've had this century.
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Despite starting one subway line, initiating consultation on the now Ontario Line (back when it was conventional subway) and laying the groundwork for what we are seeing now, but much delivered last decade, including the SRT?

And really - worse than Rob Ford? Let's not be silly.
 
dullturtle06 said:
Drove down Finch today, all the switches have 10 km/h Turnout signs. They look like posters the TTC installed themselves. So looks like all the streetcar slow zones will be applied to Finch.
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They're only temporary. These restrictions won't be staying in place. Especially since there's very few similarities between the switches being used on Line 6 and on the streetcar network. In all likelihood they encountered a issue during stress testing and are just applying this restriction until it's resolved.
 
jordanmkasla2009 said:
They're only temporary. These restrictions won't be staying in place. Especially since there's very few similarities between the switches being used on Line 6 and on the streetcar network. In all likelihood they encountered a issue during stress testing and are just applying this restriction until it's resolved.
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Shhh, no room for reasonable or nuanced discussion on here. Quick, make a rash emotionally based judgment!
 
jordanmkasla2009 said:
They're only temporary. These restrictions won't be staying in place. Especially since there's very few similarities between the switches being used on Line 6 and on the streetcar network. In all likelihood they encountered a issue during stress testing and are just applying this restriction until it's resolved.
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Just like the "temporary" slow zones the TTC installed in the 80's under all rail underpasses? The same one's I just rode along this morning?
 
Bojaxs said:
What a joke! We should have just constructed a VIVA style BRT along Finch.

EDIT: The bus flying pass the LRV near the end of the clip was the chef's kiss.
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Don't even need that. Just paint the HOV lane red and get on with it. Way less expensive, faster and more effective.
 
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