Peak hour, peak direction (the money-shot measurement in transit numbers), the one-stop extension from Kennedy to Scarborough Town Centre is expected to carry 7,300 people. One is the cost of building the extension, about $2 billion — which is roughly twice what the entire Sheppard subway line cost to build. Another is the number of new peak hour riders the extension is expected to attract — people who aren’t already on the TTC. For the same year, the peak hour, peak direction ridership out of the existing Kipling station, at the other end of the same line, is expected to be only 6,000. But, the proposed (and, for a while, approved) LRT it replaces was expected to cost $1.4 billion.

Source: thestar June 02, 2016 20:51 UTC