[afransen]

Messing up these LRTs just gives ammunition to the subways subways subways crowd. Is there a world this all gets Ford a fourth majority.

Subways have hardly been going better.

 

[sixrings]

Oh my god, what a travesty. 30 floors instead of 40 floors.

First you complain about the city not allowing high density in Port Credit, now you complain about about them only allowing 30 floors in Port Credit instead of 40 floors. Keep moving those goal posts.

Port Credit GO station there is one of the least used stations on the Lakeshore Line. With around 2.7k riders per weekday, it has little more than 1/2 the ridership of Clarkson station (5.0k riders per weekday), and 1/15 the riders of the City Centre Transit Terminal (40k riders per weekday).

By your logic, the city should prohibit high density around Erin Mills Town Centre because there is no transit terminal there.

I’m not encouraging Erin mills development.

If 10 extra floors isn’t a big deal then port credit shouldn’t have a problem building it.

30 floors sounds dense if it was anywhere else. It’s not dense when it’s directly beside an all day GO station. For instance hurontario and Eglinton is getting countless 30 floor developments and they don’t have all day GO trains. They don’t have part day GO trains. They don’t even have a GO bus station. So 30 floors there is alot of development. Context matters.

Btw I was being generous with the a higher average amount at point credit. And a lower anverage amount at cooksville. Drum has the more details without having to individually open every single Mississauga page application and putting it together.

The good news is that all those people at Cooksville will have great access to the LRT so that they can use it to get to a GO station that actually works.

Finally yes it’s 10 floors in comparison to the other GO train station but it’s 40 floor difference when comparing it to the bus station. That’s a huge difference and a huge problem. Also the place with 70 floor proposals sees zero protests while port credit has every single application protested and almost every single one get cut down.

 

[sixrings]

Subways have hardly been going better.

This is true. But part of the LRT promise was this could get up and running pretty quick. Instead because of deferred spending. And changed plans. And construction nightmares things have taken much longer than originally proposed. As a result I can understand someone saying to themselves, or a politician using it as a wedge issue, if this isn’t going to get up and running quick what does it matter let’s build the subway.

 

[T3G]

The city really needs to push hard for 501 streetcar extension.

Is this satire?

 

[sixrings]

Is this satire?

FYI. I was in Sutton the other day at their version of black creek pioneer village. Anyways there used to be a streetcar that served this first cottage community from 1900 to 1930. Maybe this is port credits end game. A streetcar to this almost cottage like community.