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Case for light rapid transit in our working-class suburbs.
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- 2. Jobs, Families, Health and Public Transportation How do they all relate? Good Public Transit: • Expands job opportunities for workers who cannot afford a car • Protects family budgets so that you don’t need to own a car • Less crowded bus and shorter trips = feeling good when we get to work • Reduces traffic and lessens air pollution • Encourages people to do more walking • Companies chose to locate to places with good public transit2015-04-16 TTCriders and NorthWest Transit Action 2
- 3. Finch Ave West Current Situation: Transit Not Good Enough Finch Ave one of the busiest in Toronto Buses in traffic move slowly and come late People late for work or grocery shopping or daycare/school Tired from long, crowded ride Lots of pollution from cars and trucks More and more riders: By 2031 there would need to be a bus coming almost every 1-2 minutes TTCriders and NorthWest Transit Action2015-04-16 3
- 4. The Crosstown Eglinton – Similar to LRTs on Finch West 2015-04-16 TTCriders and NorthWest Transit Action 4
- 5. What is an LRT? • LRT = Light Rail Transit or Light Rapid Transit • LRV = A Light Rail Vehicle – more than one LRV makes up a whole LRT 2015-04-16 TTCriders and NorthWest Transit Action 5
- 6. Why an LRT? • Can be Built faster than a Subway • Connection to Finch West Subway Station and downtown • Stations will be closer together than a subway and easy to walk to • LRT service supports existing and future needs. • LRT vehicles can be added or removed easily depending on how many passengers there are at any one time • Finch Avenue is wide enough to fit the LRT, bicycle lanes, cars and trucks TTCriders and NorthWest Transit Action2015-04-16 6
- 7. 1 LRT vehicle can carry 3X more people than a bus TTCriders and NorthWest Transit Action2015-04-16 7
- 8. LRTs in Action! TTCriders and NorthWest Transit Action2015-04-16 8
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- 13. We Need Commitment ! • Provincial Government and the City had originally agreed on building LRT – 2017 construction will start. It could be complete by 2020 • Could have finished building LRT sooner: – Since 2010 the City Gov has debated whether to build subways or put more buses on Finch instead • Get government back on track by telling them we need the LRT NOW ! TTCriders and NorthWest Transit Action2015-04-16 13
- 14. What Can We Do? Some Ideas: • Talk to a friend or family member – What are their concerns? • Tell us ! • Start your own group • Join JFAAP • Join TTCriders • Join CAPG • Email or call MPPs • Email or call Councilors 2015-04-16 TTCriders and NorthWest Transit Action 14
- 15. Thank you ! TTCriders and NorthWest Transit Action2015-04-16 15 Contact any of us here: Jane Finch Action for Neighbourhood Change - https://www.facebook.com/pages/JaneFinch-Action-For-Neighbourhood-Change- ANC/310322915652769 Jane-Finch Action Against Poverty -JFAAP - https://jfaap.wordpress.com/ Northwest Transit Action northwest.transit.action@gmail.com 416-828-0133 TTCriders - http://www.ttcriders.ca/ covimarco9@gmail.com herman.rosenfeld@rogers.com CodeRedTO - http://coderedto.com/ info@coderedto.com
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- Expands job opportunities for workers who cannot afford a car Protects family budgets so that you don’t need to own a car or more than one to get around By the time you get to work after commuting in a car or crowded bus for more than 1 hr you are probably a little bit tired and not as productive at work as you could be if you had a shorter trip on good transit Reduces traffic and thereby lessens air pollution which is good for your health Encourages people to do more walking because when you leave a bus or train station you walk to your next location More big and small companies chose to locate to places with good public transit because its closer to customers and its closer to workers that they need to hire
- -The 36 Finch West bus is top 3 busiest bus routes in Toronto with about 42,600 passengers per weekday. -Frequent bus service operating in mixed traffic and so close together results in “bunching” up -Experts predict that by the year 2031, there will be enough people taking Finch Ave home that the TTC would need to run 32 to 39 ‘articulated’ – these are the new big and long buses - or 45 to 55 ‘standard’ or regular sized buses per hour. That works out to a bus almost every minute. But the buses would still have to wait in traffic so travelling on Finch will still take too long. - Its time for a new kind of transportation. One that will carry more passengers faster. And one that does not have to wait in traffic.
- What is being Done to Make the Situation Better? The Government of Ontario has created an organization called Metrolinx for planning improvements to public transportation in Toronto and the cities nearby (Vaughan, Hamilton, Brampton, Mississauga etc). One of the projects they are working on is better TTC service on Finch Ave. The TTC and Metrolinx work together to reduce congestion and make your trip faster and more reliable. How? . By building light rail transit (video). (Click on link here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWTd58zn8fw) OR Open embedded video and when its finished right click on it and ‘send to back’ Here is what Eglinton Ave will look like. Finch Ave W will be similar except none of the LRT trains will run underground. Notice how none of these LRT trains have to wait in the same traffic as cars. They are totally separated which makes it faster to get to where you need to go.
- Light Rapid Transit or Light Rail Transit is a type of public transportation that operates in its own right of way. In other words LRT stations and rails are separated from other traffic so no cars will get in the way and the ride will be smoother. It will be 50-70% faster than your bus ride. LRTs are powered by electricity Just like a subway, LRTs can reach high speeds depending on how far apart the stations are (to allow space for speeding up and slowing down). On Finch West they will be separated from cars and trucks but will still be on the same road LRT is used in many countries and large cities including other Canadian cities like Edmonton and Calgary. The Finch West LRT will have 2 LRT vehicles attached together.
- It will be built much faster than a subway so that you can have better transit sooner ! When construction starts it could take as little as 3 yrs. Compared to the Sheppard Subway which runs 6 km – half of distance of the Finch LRT – it took from 1995-2002 – 7 years to finish construction ! Connects to the new Subway line and can get you downtown faster than the bus The stations will be 3-400 metres apart which means that the stops will be close enough for you to walk to but far enough away so that the LRT can travel at a good speed before it has to slow down to pick up passengers and drop them off LRT service will support existing and future ridership demands. Experts predict that people who use the TTC will grow to 2,800 passengers per hour by 2031. LRT cars can be added or removed easily, thus providing flexibility to accommodate ridership demands. The existing 36m right-of-way along the majority of Finch Avenue will be able to fit the LRT track way and the two lanes of truck and automobile traffic travelling in both directions. So car drivers and TTC passengers both benefit from an LRT. In some places Finch Avenue will be widened to allow this. Bicycle lanes will also be created.
- Light Rail Plans for Ottawa – click on embedded video If WiFi Permits: Phoenix, Arizona: The roads are wide here just like Finch Ave. This is what LRT might look like in Toronto. Click here: A video of Light Rail in Phoenix, Arizona. Video is very long so cannot be downloaded. Only if there is wifi we can access from youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHBnGsF37oY 0-50 seconds – Look how they can run in the middle of the street even with traffic on the other sides. Its because they have their own right of way. notice how quiet they are - They don’t take space away from auto drivers, buses or pedestrians Fast fwd to section 3:15-4:30 Notice how fast they can run and how quiet they are. Imagine zooming past the stopped traffic in the new LRT! Notice how the streets in Denver are wide just like on Finch Ave and just as many cars can drive as well. They don’t interfere with each other. 3:45- 4:45– Look at how the LRT turns left so smoothly to let passengers off at the station and bring new passengers. There are many doors to exit and enter so it makes it very convenient for people. - Notice how safe it is for people waiting while other traffic goes by.
- Why not Subways? Subways take much longer to build than LRTs. Construction on the Finch LRT is planned to start in 2017 and be finished by 2020. The Sheppard Subway extension from Yonge and Sheppard Station to Don Mills took twice the time it will take to build the Finch LRT. During the time it will take to build a subway you will have to wait in traffic in a bus or car for years longer than if an LRT is built! There have been no plans to improve the TTC on Finch Ave West for decades. The City has no money to pay for a subway. But the provincial government is paying $1.2 billion for the LRT. Why should we take a risk and cancel the LRT plan when there is no guarantee that there will be money for a subway that has as many stops and serves as many people as the LRT? How much longer will we have to wait for better transit if we cancel these plans? Subway stations have to be far apart to travel quickly so this means that you will either have to walk a long distance to get to the next station or you will need to take a bus to the station but the road will be filled with cars and other traffic. Do you really save time this way? -Being above ground on an LRT is good because the ride is fast and passengers like being above ground, where they look can out the window, and see passing businesses as they go by. Some studies have shown that subways, especially when stations are spaced far apart (as on the Sheppard subway line) can actually hurt local business by discouraging passengers from getting off to shop and dine. -Subway construction requires digging large sections of road, and thus is much more disruptive for local businesses, residents, car and bus traffic and pedestrians. Subways are very expensive to build and they do not last forever. They must be maintained and repaired for a much higher cost than to repair and maintain the LRT. -Subways cost an average of $300 million per km to build. LRT is $100 million per km for surface routes and $250 million for underground routes.
- The $ that is available for public transit was already dedicated to an LRT. $1.2 billion dollars can fund 2 subway stops. Bus + subway ride = more than 40 mins just to go from Humber college to Finch West Station. That’s almost the same as taking the bus all the way ! No advantage to building a subway ! LRTs will come every 3-6 minutes unlike the bus which is totally unpredictable because buses are not separated from cars LRT will be built faster , goes farther and saves you 10 minutes of travelling. Which is the better option ?
- How it will work - Safe and convenient for strollers , wheel chairs, the elderly because many entrances you can board and all entrances are low to the floor - The LRT will run on dedicated lanes in the middle of the roadway so that you are never stuck in traffic. Finch Avenue will be widened to maintain existing lanes of traffic.* they are used in Sweden, Calgary, Ottawa and many places where it is cold so they can stand the whether
- Here is the map of all of the LRT stations that will be built starting from Finch West Station. Do you see a stop near your home?