Toronto Transit 2050

[Dusty Ayres]

Yes, some smart young man has come up with a view of what Toronto's transit system, the TTC (Toronto Transit Commission) could look like in the year 2050:



Anybody who's from Toronto, like myself give a holler in the affirmative now.

 

[shipfisher]

As a Toronto born and raised lad now living in Auckland, New Zealand, I have to say that looks pretty wild. I remember as a kid being able to ride the entire subway line easily in part of a day (ie. Yonge St./University Ave. line and the Bloor/Danforth), mind you that would be a lot more difficult even now.

 

[TerriO]

Before the complaints begin, could you please shrink the image to about half its width, if not smaller?

Thank you in advance. :thumbsup:

And comments in general: Toronto's heading toward a NYC or London level of subway system. Not bad at all.

 

[Mark_Nguyen]

I wonder if the guy also thought about replacing the rather crappy (IMO) TTC subway cars themselves... Not to mention places to maintain all the subways too!

Mark

 

[DeafPoet]

We'll be lucky to get the Yonge-University-Spadina extension by 2050 much less that monstrosity

It would be beyond sweet though.

 

[Dusty Ayres]

Mark_Nguyen said:
I wonder if the guy also thought about replacing the rather crappy (IMO) TTC subway cars themselves... Not to mention places to maintain all the subways too!

Mark

Oh, but those cars are going to be replaced by the TTC with new ones-here they are:

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And these are the proposals on how to use them

The only problem is, the TTC is far behind that ofMadrid andMontreal in terms of subway building that it isn't even funny (on the other hand, it is!) Here's the story:

Madrid built 150 kilometres of subw...] TTC subways twice as costly as Madrid's[/i]

Half of what's seen in in this future map could have been built 30 years ago if the people who run the city and the province had any farsight or brains. Unfortunately, all that we've had are short-sighted people who can only focus on the fatuous pronouncement about how Toronto is a 'world-class city' without really trying to make it one; as one British guy said, 'if Toronto was really world-class, it would have a subway line to the airport.' But, what we do have is a lot of hyperbole-or bullshit.

We're not even maintaining our stations right;
the Museum subway station is being made over with an idiotic Egyptian motif simply because it's near the Royal Ontario Museum, and Pape subway station is getting rebuilt with the station letters being slanted sideways so that it looks 'kewl'. We Ontarians and Torontonians need to get these idiots out of City Hall and Parliment, so that we can get funding from our goverment again like we used to. Only then can we truly have a subway like this.

 

[Captain Intrepid]

Geee, Toronto might be a World City™ someday...

 

[Blueicus]

Hahaha, I love how the Toronto talk extends even to the Star Trek boards. I personally feel that new subways and shiny new vehicles should take second place to more efficient payment and ticket schemes (like the octopus card in HK) and less baffling or the outright elimination of transfers (I don't recall ever using a transfer in recent years and damned if I know whether or not I can use it on a certain route change or within a certain period of time). The TTC union is probably a huge stumbling block in the modernization of the Toronto transportation system and to be frank I'd use it more if its payment and ticketing system was less ambiguous.

 

[Freakness]

DeafPoet said:
We'll be lucky to get the Yonge-University-Spadina extension by 2050 much less that monstrosity

It would be beyond sweet though.

my thoughts exactly! the bureaucracy and the woeful lack of funding for public transit make it look VERY unlikely that we'll get anything like that in the next 40-ish years. something seriously major would have to happen. it would be cool, though.

 

[Canadave]

Mark_Nguyen said:
I wonder if the guy also thought about replacing the rather crappy (IMO) TTC subway cars themselves... Not to mention places to maintain all the subways too!

Mark

I dunno, personally I really like those cars. Like the soon-to-be-replaced CLRV and ALRV streetcars, I'll miss the old T-1s when they're finally all retired. It's a solid design, IMO, and almost certainly superior to the MR-63s and MR-73s they use in Montreal.