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salsa said:
Nope. The LRT would have been buried entirely under eglinton. Elevating it wasn't even considered.
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It seems that Metrolinx was planning on studying elevated. http://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2010/12/20/elevated_transit_among_metrolinxs_alternatives.html

There was no opposition to elevated when most newspapers released this story. However, it appears that this study was not completed, or at least not released to the public. I asked Metrolinx about this about 4 months ago and got no reply back.

I somehow think that Metrolinx and the Liberals deliberately did not want to save money because the agreement was that savings would be spent on the Sheppard subway. ML and the Liberals would rather wasted an extra couple of Billion on this portion of Eglinton, or delay transit by several years, rather than let Ford gain a victory with the Sheppard subway.
 
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BurlOak said:
It seems that Metrolinx was planning on studying elevated. http://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2010/12/20/elevated_transit_among_metrolinxs_alternatives.html

There was no opposition to elevated when most newspapers released this story. However, it appears that this study was not completed, or at least not released to the public. I asked Metrolinx about this about 4 months ago and got no reply back.
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Regardless, this was going to go underground if Ford had his way.


I somehow think that Metrolinx and the Liberals deliberately did not want to save money because the agreement was that savings would be spent on the Sheppard subway. ML and the Liberals would rather wasted an extra couple of Billion on this portion of Eglinton, or delay transit by several years, rather than let Ford gain a victory with the Sheppard subway.
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That's just a theory. No one really knows.
 
Soooooo...who thinks that the Eglinton LRT would have been so much more reliable if we just went back to the drawing board and made it elevated?

Ha ha. j/k.

Great post, insert.
 
M II A II R II K said:
It probably will eventually on that route, once the first TC LRTs are retired.
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You're far too optimistic.

Eglinton will become an HRT (or another from of higher capacity transit) sometime in the future. That is undeniable. But I don't see that transition happening for at the very least 50 years. Most of us (even the younger members) will probably be long gone before there's even a serious discussion about conversion.
 
M II A II R II K said:
It probably will eventually on that route, once the first TC LRTs are retired.
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Eglinton will have capacity to spare for a very long time, as well as the ability to use 3-car trains instead of two car trains, but let's talk very long term for now.

Let's assume Toronto continues to grow, and we're talking >30 years later which from what I understand is the lifespan of the LRVs being ordered now.

My personal hope is that more rapid transit lines will be built by then, and the demand will be spread out like in NYC, rather than funnelled into a few lines like we have today. In NYC, the many lines serve the the same areas but slightly different North-South on Manhattan since it was developed by several competing private companies. However even now they're building a parallel line (2nd ave) to increase capacity.

I'd rather see a bigger more spread out system than upgrading Eglinton to HRT, if or when the need occurs, but also for the system in general. That way, they can close down certain lines for repairs more easily, and when a given line has problems, it would be easier to re-direct the trips along alternative routes. It's the same overall idea s the DRL, when one line reaches capacity, build another parallel line but further away to both increase capacity & coverage.
 
TheTigerMaster said:
You're far too optimistic.

Eglinton will become an HRT (or another from of higher capacity transit) sometime in the future. That is undeniable. But I don't see that transition happening for at the very least 50 years. Most of us (even the younger members) will probably be long gone before there's even a serious discussion about conversion.
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Agreed, but it's so difficult to know what will happen >50-100 years in the future. The Yonge streetcar started operating in 1861. There's no way they would be planning for or predicting how the world would be like in 1954 when the subway replaced it 93 years later. There weren't even cars on the road back then.

There are so many factors we don't know about anything > 50 years in the future and I don't think it can be predicted or planned for with accuracy.
 
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