Originally Posted by
28isGreat
Because there's no existing GO/Via/CP/CN track that goes substantially near those stations. Are you suggesting they should have built new track to do that? Big money to acquire property. Oh, did you want underground? BIG money.
If you're suggesting that UP should join (interline) the subway track at the Bloor/Dundas GO station... uh... it can't. TTC railway gauge is not standard railway gauge (seriously). And even if it could interline, then it would get stuck in subway traffic, wouldn't be much of an express anymore.
I'm not suggesting it interline but that it effectively connect (like the different terminals at YYZ, for example). So you can get out at the UPX express stop somewhere near Spadina and then walk to the subway from there.
Which is what you will be able to do with the current UPX from the Bloor GO station to the Dundas West station. Except Dundas West station is only about 10 minutes away from Keele anyway (which already connects express to Pearson).
The Bloor GO station (i.e., Dundas West) is not that far from Spadina - how hard would it have been to either move the stop there/add a new stop?
But then again, this seems to be the way that Toronto builds infrastructure. They don't focus on holistic value, but just on specific routes for specific purposes. Hence why Toronto has a very, very inefficient (for a majority of the population) subway system.