Councillor Josh Matlow

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Scarborough SRT Fact Sheet

Dear Residents,

 

There has been a lot of misinformation regarding the potential conversion of the Scarborough SRT to a subway. The facts – based on land use planning, ridership projections and a cost/benefit analysis, not votes – suggest replacing the aging Scarborough SRT with an LRT, just as was agreed upon last year when Council reached an agreement. For additional background on this current transit discussion, please read my newsletter from May 1.

 

This is a fact sheet I distributed to my colleagues and the media last night:

Scarborough SRT Fact Sheet SRT Stats • The new LRT will be in a completely grade-separated right-of-way. No traffic lights. No cross streets. Widely spaced stations. • At an average of 36km per hour It will run faster than the Yonge and Bloor-Danforth lines which average 32km per hour • The line will have a capacity to carry 16,000 passengers per hour. • It is anticipated that by 2031 the LRT would carry 8,000 passengers per hour leaving it enough capacity to serve the area for many decades to come- the extra capacity offered by a subway won't come close to being needed • The LRT would be over two kilometres longer than the subway, have four more stations and is within walking distance to over 20,000 more people- with the possibility to extend the line into Malvern Cost Concerns • The $500 million cost cited to convert the SRT to a subway is false • As TTC CEO Andy Byford confirmed today, the cost of the SRT is $1.8 billion • The cost of the subway is estimated to cost $2.8 billion • There is already a $1 billion difference before factoring: o Contract cancellations with Bombardier o Construction of new terminus for Eglinton Crosstown at Kennedy that was to be part of the Scarborough RT will could be at least $200 million o Sunk engineering costs o New design work o Cost efficiencies from using the same technology as on Sheppard and Eglinton o Significant changes to maintenance and storage facility on Conlins Rd. which has almost finished RFP process o Possible new Environmental Assessment

Click here to download this fact sheet as a PDF.

2017-05-29T19:24:49+00:00

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