The line will end up running between two suburbs full of people who in surveys say they'll ride a rail, but actually prefer to drive cars and the commissioned studies for some reason did questionnaires instead of looking at travel habits.
This was one of Toronto's recent subway expansions, they spent billions to build a subway in an area with low bus usage because the residents "wanted it" (the residents being mainly homeowners who read that subways were good for housing prices), instead of taking busy bus lines and building a subway there. Then everyone whined when it took like 15 years for people's habits in the area to shift. Somehow this is always perfectly predictable, and people act the same way every time. Either consider it a long term project, and don't expect people to adapt to a new transit project overnight, or build it around already existing habits.
The line will end up running between two suburbs full of people who in surveys say they'll ride a rail, but actually prefer to drive cars and the commissioned studies for some reason did questionnaires instead of looking at travel habits.
This was one of Toronto's recent subway expansions, they spent billions to build a subway in an area with low bus usage because the residents "wanted it" (the residents being mainly homeowners who read that subways were good for housing prices), instead of taking busy bus lines and building a subway there. Then everyone whined when it took like 15 years for people's habits in the area to shift. Somehow this is always perfectly predictable, and people act the same way every time. Either consider it a long term project, and don't expect people to adapt to a new transit project overnight, or build it around already existing habits.