The capacity is the product of length and width . . . and these are trams not metro trains which have far less useable interior space as we all know, plus less doors.

This should be the standard for any future upgrades, canopies, accessibility and prepared for level boarding retro, but no giant parkade. It looks sharp and just as good if not better that the typical regional station in Europe

LA has had tons of problems with them

Very common practice, with tunneling you are going in blind (even with drilling to test soil you can get unexpected stuff) so they stagger so they can more easily do the second tunnel. Its not uncommon to do a "pilot" tunnel on larger projects as was seen on the chunnel and Metro Construciton in...

It is an issue, but worth considering the more comfortable and newer trains on the Ontario Line plus the faster trip to many destinations (i.e. east of Yonge) will be attractive. Should be tons of escalators.

4 tracks to turn 4 tph seems pretty excessive, 3 should be plenty?

Anyone know why the Dupont Elevator is now being ripped apart again?

It shouldn't thanks to alt compliance

610mm

I think its worth considering that even Downtown Toronto is not Euro levels of ped, cycle, transit friendliness . . . . the suburbs are a different world and suggesting a 512 St. Clair style service was what they needed has always seemed questionable. Why is having different levels of service...

Well . . . whenever someone says to me that the TTC "lacks" funds I like to remind people how insane the costs for projects are. Bloor Yonge rebuild is way over a billion dollars, and very dense intersection or not that number is crazy! The amount of funds are not as much an issue as the...

You're both right but the utlimate point here might be that Paris (and many other cities actually) have retrofitted PSDs and managed to train their respective staff etc. mostly without issue over 10 years ago. Toronto can do the same.

Don't think they have enough trains for 3 cars in revenue service - they are just testing

Given we pay multiples for subway compared to places like Spain I am not so convinced, especially since we are spending 10s of billions on subway. Just getting to a more reasonable design standard or interpretation of requirements could literally save billions of dollars. Yeah, but PSDs are...

New York is not a good example for modern transit planning. Even though the speeds will quite likely not be all that. different in many places.

Well, changing the OBC!

Emergency walkways like with most similar bridges?

I like wider platforms, but if the stairs are still so close to the edge thats going to be very annoying.

Not 2 branches, usually many more and on both sides. This also usually doesn't happen in a full metro environment.

May well be, but it is driving the size of new facilities much larger and thus more expensive.