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Urban consultant and former councillor Richard Gilbert has a very interesting op-ed in the Star <\/em>today<\/a> arguing that each of the proposed new subway stations on the Spadina line to York should be accompanied by a medium-density neighbourhood built around it that would ensure that ridership would increase enough to pay for the new station over the long term.<\/p>\n

To me, his most important point is that such new neighbourhoods, made up of mid-rise (7 storey) buildings, would need to be mixed-income. Lower-income citizens are more likely to take the subway, but most new dense developments in Toronto are primarily geared to people with higher incomes (and, often, who don’t have families).<\/p>\n

Gilbert argues that the only way for this proposal to happen would be to create a kind of independent non-profit development corporation, with extensive powers, to oversee the work. It is depressing to think that the city government has become so helpless that no-one can imagine it managing this kind of transformation itself.<\/p>\n

My main question for the proposal is whether the subway line has the capacity to handle the proposed number of new riders. It might work if there were commuting destinations at the north end of the line so that the load went both ways — which would mean building places along the line where York students might live, and building offices and other workplaces at the northern stations of the line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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