Expanding the TTC, the better way

The current regime in Toronto is trying to expand transit lines in Toronto. There is a new subway being built into Vaughn that is expected to be finished in the year 2015. There are LRT lines being built on St. Clair, Eglinton and Jane St. along with other proposed throughout the city.

Although it gets talked about, linking Mississauga transit and the TTC never gets off the ground mostly because nobody can agree on who will pay for what.

For years I’ve mentioned my idea to people and I now wish to share it with all of you.

Kipling station in the west end has been talked about being a transit hub for travel to the airport and to downtown. I think a further step would be to start the expansion into Mississauga from there.

An LRT line running south down Kipling, and westbound on Queensway allows little disruption of traffic all the way into Mississauga. However, this LRT line would be different…It would be a Monorail.

Kipling Rd. and Queensway are a mixture of industrial and big box shops, no real residential areas to be concerned about. A monorail can be built right down the middle of the streets with only a select number of stops to allow transit riders from Mississauga to have a quick trip into the Kipling station transit hub.

There would be a stop at Sherway Gardens, Dixie, Cawthra, Hurontario and Mavis. The Mavis station would be a final natural stop as residential areas begin after that. Mississauga Transit could increase busses along those main roads to allow commuters access from north and south to stations built at those locations.

By running along Queensway above the traffic, cars would not be impacted with lane restrictions currently found on surface LRT routes, and Toronto and Mississauga would finally have a link that could generate a large number of new riders and alleviate some congestion on the roads.

For the environmentally concerned, technologies from Europe and Asia, can be examined that would use magnets and possibly solar power as opposed to just electricity.

We all would love subways buried everywhere under our city but politicians in the past never had the foresight to build when it was affordable. Now, instead of spending billions going below ground, millions could be saved transporting people above ground.