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Monarch Butterfly said:
The light rail trains are stored at Mount Dennis Maintenance and Storage Facility in the west end. Unlike legacy streetcar network with 3 (soon to be 4) streetcar yards, there is currently only one place to store them overnight. Currently.

The city is trying to build the Eglinton East LRT from Kennedy Station to Morningside/Sheppard. Will there be a light rail track connection between the Eglinton LRT Line 5 and the Egltinton East LRT, since the two will likely be separate light rail lines? Nothing written down in stone, yet. So, it will be decades before there would be a light rail storage facility in the east end.

Now the bad news. The "preferred" maintenance and storage facility location is near the Toronto Zoo.
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(Think taking the GO train from Kennedy GO, Eglington GO, or Guildwood GO would be faster to get downtown.)
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If I were looking at Toronto from Mars, I’d say: extend Line 4 with two branches — one to Malvern and one to the Toronto Zoo. I’d also push to extend Line 5 to Eglinton GO (even acknowledging why that’s now difficult). Let the LRT handle the in-between, though I’m not convinced it would perform any better than Line 6 does today.
 
Monarch Butterfly said:
The light rail trains are stored at Mount Dennis Maintenance and Storage Facility in the west end. Unlike legacy streetcar network with 3 (soon to be 4) streetcar yards, there is currently only one place to store them overnight. Currently.

The city is trying to build the Eglinton East LRT from Kennedy Station to Morningside/Sheppard. Will there be a light rail track connection between the Eglinton LRT Line 5 and the Egltinton East LRT, since the two will likely be separate light rail lines? Nothing written down in stone, yet. So, it will be decades before there would be a light rail storage facility in the east end.

Now the bad news. The "preferred" maintenance and storage facility location is near the Toronto Zoo.
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(Think taking the GO train from Kennedy GO, Eglington GO, or Guildwood GO would be faster to get downtown.)
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Line 7 needs to be scrapped at all costs
 
goodcitywhenfinished said:
Line 7 needs to be scrapped at all costs
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Scrapped? Does it even exist? It isn't even on the future transit plans on the Metrolinx website. If Metrolinx isn't building it then the likelihood of it happening seems remote. The city's money should be tied up in the Waterfront East LRT.
 
Has anyone seen any action on the line today??? While in the Mount Denise area I saw zero action in the 30 minutes I was there. The yard was full with nothing been moved.

I also noticed the north end of the NO Frills parking lot that is now a pay parking area by your phone with no price to park there. I guess is for Line 5 riders like TTC parking lots.
 
Leo_Chan said:
If Don Valley Station does get service and they have the will to close the Leslie intersection, then potentially it can get infinite signal priority, where left turns from eastbound and southbound can be closed off. 🤣
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I take extreme offence to this constant ridiculing/berating of residents on Leslie.

I've only lived here for over twenty years, and so many on this forum are ready to punish us because of politicians' planning errors, ie. neglecting the South-side alignment.

Just saying, let's then close off the passageway between the two Spadinas since the TTC neglected to maintain the moving sidewalk.

People can always change at St. George...
 
Richard White said:
While I understand the public wants someone's head on a pike, if they have a public inquiry it affects ALOT of people, not just current politicians but those from the past decade or more. The complexity of any inquiry would pale in comparison to anything held before.

Liberals, PC they are all tied to this debacle with Dalton McGuinty launching it in 2011. Yes Doug Ford had the most recent hand in things but that does not mean he was the only one.

Having a public inquiry could do alot more harm than good and I can see why people want to quash the idea.
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Harm for who exactly Richard?
 
jordanmkasla2009 said:
as I just posted above, even if all the above you claim is true, that 31 minute difference in scheduled travel time is clearly going to make the LRT the better option to get across the city on Eglinton.
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Nobody was ever taking buses from Mount Dennis to Kennedy, the ACTUAL comparison has always been against using Line 2 + bus/GO or UP Express. The fastest of these combos comes in at 45 minutes (UPX+Line 2).
So for 15 years and enough money to fill Lake Ontario we got a line that will run about 20% slower than existing services end-to-end.
 
jmi22 said:
Harm for who exactly Richard?
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The taxpayer. It is throwing money and focus at the past when there are so many things we could be focusing on now. We could have a public inquiry on the Ontario Science Centre before it it torn down and moved for example. We could focus on building new things. We could say, the opposition could say "we will let you off the hook for a public inquiry for Eglinton and Finch, but the money needs to go to improving the quality of the East Harbour station :) .
 
I was at Kennedy Station this afternoon and they have taken down the barricades in front of the of the doors leading to the line 5 part of the station.
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youngblood said:
like 3 mins of savings for my trip. Hope it gets better in time.
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I am not going to lament too much about this because the underground portion will feel like a subway-metro experience compared to the bus, but I feel like people are not factoring wait times at stations.

The Eglinton buses arrived every 30 seconds at peak through Midtown as routes converged, and was there every other minute during off-peak. Through all my years living along Eglinton, I never once checked the app to see when the next bus was coming except for when extreme bunching occurred (rows of 7-8 buses bunched together resulting in long wait times).

This will not be the case with the Crosstown, as the headways will be much longer between trains. From always having a bus at my door, to having to wait 6-8 minutes at stations for the next LRT, will arguably be a downgrade on this one aspect of traveling. The comfort and experience, saved time through the tunneled portion, and hopefully reliability of the line will hopefully more than make up for the lost minutes waiting for the LRT to arrive.
 
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