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Originally Posted by theman23
Metrolinx would still be the overarching planning body, and I’m not sure how having a single operator ensures smoother transfers. They don’t hold the subway in Toronto because they’re expecting a feeder bus to come in late. Regardless, just having better and more service would do a more more to facilitate transfers than any benefit that comes from the current system. Melbourne’s metro, tram, and regional rail are operated by three separate companies and they have 50 or so bus operators. Yet they still manage to pull of a unified fare system that allows seamless transfers and have a transit network that is at least a century ahead of Toronto.
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Melbourne? You mean the city whose transit network had
a third less use than the
TTC* alone, not including suburban services like BT, DRT, GO, etc.? If that's "a century ahead," I don't want to go there.
They (finally!) unified fares earlier this year, so that barrier's gone, but I would rather keep service planning in the hands of the city. I don't see where you think this "better and more" service would come from with privatisation, which certainly
hasn't led to
any benefits in the
UK, unless you (mistakenly) believe that the city's hoarding a pile of non-existent TTC profits in a Orangeville cave.
*with a larger service area, though the GTA is somewhat larger than the Melbourne metro area