Comment 23289

By DavidG (anonymous) | Posted May 17, 2008 at 13:40:35

kevlahan

I think you just confirmed my point with your 'alternate' routes to and from Dundas in that they both still had the streets King and Main in it. Of course once I get to Dundurn there are alternatives.

I hope when you talk about the converting Main and King to two way you are thinking about the current 403 to Main and King on and off ramps. It seems no one mentions this. It would undoubtably require extensive reconstruction on the QEW.

Would an extra 9 minutes on my commute be a distaster? of course not. But can you not understand how I would oppose spending 1.2 billion dollars for this just so transit users can save a couple minutes? That is a huge amount of money that I think many people may have trouble appreciating. Every year the City begs the province for a mere 20-50 million to offset social service costs and avoid tax increases.

I think perhaps my main objection to this idea has gotton lost which is this; (and again I can really only speak to the Dundas - downtown commute) Buses are not being delayed by traffic congestion or running at capacity so why do we need this system?

Given that the LRT is planned to start at Mac Dundas residents would require a transfer wich of course requires more waiting so that I suspect even their commute time will increase.

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