Amare
Senior Member
The city has had ~15+ years to get it's act together since the realization that Liberty Village was not going to be an office park, and accommodate the influx of residences. They failed, so we cant pin this issue solely on the initial plan for the area. As we know, the plans changed, and the city didn't accommodate for the unfortunate idiocy from the province.
See point above.
Residences have complained for years and years, and years, that the service offered by the joke that is the 29, 63, 504 and Exhibition GO were not enough. And rightly so. For years they felt ignored by the city because they were doing absolutely nothing to improve the 504. They finally decided to get serious and introduce the 514 Cherry, which then later turned into having the 514 renumbered to the 504 and having the route split on both ends. Then they got a bit more serious and implemented to King Street Pilot.
GO finally decided to start bolstering service on the Lakeshore West line which helped, but many people couldnt take advantage of it for various reason, thus the reason people were frustrated with the TTC and city. It's only now that the area is getting the transit that's really needed with the Ontario Line.
We're in agreement that there's virtually little to nothing that can be done to fix the road network today. The only thing that's going to make somewhat of an impact to the area is the South Liberty St roadway. Asides from that, this road network in the area is permanently messed up.
David Miller had the opportunity to go ahead with the Front St Extension that was on the debate front for years. He decided to cancel it outright once and for good because of a lack of funds and due to the battle on cars, instead of finding a way to allocate funds.
This is the thing that hurts this area tremendously to this day, and it's why Strachan and East Liberty are a virtually gridlocked zoo 90% of the time.
