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Like Toronto, most of the great cities around the world have a subway system to connect people to key destinations and get people where they need to go faster, without relying on a personal vehicle. So how does ours compare in terms of vastness and complexity? At fakeisthenewreal.org<\/a>, we found a really neat and simple linear illustration of 36 different subways systems, from Toronto<\/a> to Tokyo and beyond, all shown on the same scale.<\/p>\n While cities such as London<\/a>, Moscow<\/a>, New York<\/a> and Seoul <\/a>all have subway systems that are both vast and complex, the ones in some cities tend to be one or the other. For instance, in San Francisco<\/a>, Washington DC<\/a> and Los Angeles<\/a>, the subway systems are vast but not very complex. On the other hand, in Tokyo<\/a>, Paris<\/a> and Madrid<\/a>, they are complex but not very vast. Then, of course, there are subway systems in some other cities that are neither.<\/p>\n So where does Toronto\u2019s current subway system fit in? Ours is similar to those found in cities such at Athens<\/a> and Delhi<\/a>. It\u2019s neither vast nor complex and consists of only a few lines covering a relatively small area.<\/p>\n Fortunately, the vastness of our subway system will dramatically improve with the subway extensions that are part of the vivaNext plan<\/a>. They include the Spadina subway extension<\/a> that will extend north-west 8.6 kilometres from Downsview Station in Toronto to the Vaughan Corporate Centre in Vaughan, and the Yonge subway extension<\/a> that will extend north 6.8 kilometres from Finch Station in Toronto to the Langstaff\/Richmond Hill Centre by Highway 7. Both of these subway extensions will further connect with vivaNext\u2019s new east-west Highway 7 rapidway<\/a> that will extend from Highway 50 in Vaughan to Reesor Road in Markham.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Like Toronto, most of the great cities around the world have a subway system to connect people to key destinations and get people where they need to go faster, without relying on a personal vehicle. So how does ours compare in terms of vastness and complexity? At fakeisthenewreal.org, we found a really neat and simple […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[45,10,13,6,7,9],"class_list":["post-618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-subways","tag-subway","tag-subway-extension","tag-toronto","tag-viva","tag-vivanext","tag-york-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":623,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions\/623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}