LNahid2000
Senior Member
Definitely, since bike lanes are part of the Eglinton Connects plan.
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Leo_Chan
Senior Member
Just curious, is there any significance to the name “Eglinton Crosstown LRT”. I understand it goes along Eglinton Avenue, it goes “across the town” and it is a LRT Line. Where specifically does “Crosstown” come from?
TheTigerMaster
Superstar
I noticed a business on Eglinton with “Crosstown” in its name. Not sure if they named their business before or after the ECLRT proposal. Other than that, I’ve never heard it used in any context other than the LRT.
Amare
Senior Member
The name Crosstown comes from the fact that it crosses all 6 of the former municipalities that make up Toronto today (Etobicoke, York, East York, North York, Scarborough, and Old Toronto). Although technically it doesnt even touch Etobicoke.
TheTigerMaster
Superstar
Wasn’t there an expressway proposal last century called Crosstown?
APTA-2048
Senior Member
Yes and it really only "crossed" half of Metro.
Monarch Butterfly
Superstar
Should the LRT western extension to the airport actually happen, then it will truly be "Crosstown". Should happen with the Liberals or NDP in charge of the province, the Progressive Conservatives only if they truly are "Progressive".
sixrings
Senior Member
Wish we would hear a firm date of when Eglinton West is suppose to begin. You would think that there would be a lot of smarttrack money left over since there is no actual smarttrack.
Amare
Senior Member
We would've had a somewhat of a time frame had John Tory not voluntarily put his hand up and offer to pay for the whole thing and take the province off the hook for the project. Chances are we wont see Crosstown West extension happen until whenever the Scarborough subway extension begins construction.
rbt
Senior Member
Smarttrack doesn't meet the vision statement largely because it didn't have a funding stream to use. $7B (2014 dollars) would have purchased 5 minute all-day frequencies with a chunk left-over for operations subsidies.
The big-cost item that limits east-end frequencies is the $1.5B 4th track on LakeShore East and triple tracking through Scarborough to allow express trains through; of course, you could kill the express trains and make everything all-stop on that line and reduce the number of tracks required.
Congestion at Union was never an issue. The LakeShore tunnel proposal was priced at about $2B (todays dollars) and would have fit the funding envelope.
The concept on the east-side was pretty sound. West-side had problems. What killed it is it was a $7B proposal that *might* receive $3.5B in funding.
I'm pleased to see progress on the DRL. Less happy about it becoming an election carrot.
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Leo_Chan
Senior Member
TheTigerMaster
Superstar
Even “half” is quite generous
Hmm, the so-called “Crosstown” expressway would’ve only traveled between Bloor/ Dufferin and Danforth/DVP. Kind of weird to call to call it Crosstown when it only traverses a tiny portion of the city
TheTigerMaster
Superstar
Isn’t City Planning is actively working on the project, or is this a Metrolinx thing now?
Either way, one of them should be working on it, and I assume we’ll be getting updated in the relatively near future.
sixrings
Senior Member
Ideally they would extend the lrt in both directions at the same time. If the extension has to be done in stages then I hope they do the west part first since scarborough is so against lrt and has used a significant amount on a vanity subway
someMidTowner
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If you're referring to this convenience store, it appears that the name was changed some time between 2007 and 2009:
