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Old Jul 22, 2015, 6:21 am
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hkskyline
 
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Originally Posted by Wallace99
It isn't built near Wher families live, why would it target them? It's built at the foot of Bay Street where finance, law, accounting, engineering and now tech and medical or booming.

I don't know what People expected this to be, it connects the downtown core to the airport - both areas are people of higher income and tilted towards business. To build a km of subway costs 500 million, that's what this whole project cost.

It's never going to be perfect or fit all people but nothing is, I suspect prices may change or we will see some type of variable pricing. People pay 300/month for go train passes now, parking at my office building is 400/month, people pay 40 for parking for leaf games and concerts. If it actually makes it easier for business to stay downtown, attract more conferences and take some congestion off the road it's fine.

I think people forget the buses from the airport to the hotels were over 20 bucks and they took the highway a while. This is a similar price point for a way better service.
Between Bay Street and Pearson is built-up and urban, not barren countryside. The train line passes through many neighbourhoods, such that GO also runs its trains through most of the same corridor, albeit at pitiful frequencies.

The real congestion beater would be to run a frequent commuter service instead of a premium line that prices out the average working family.
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