Not sure how this fits with the TTC removing their funding for DRL studies a couple months ago but they've put out a contract for a DOWNTOWN RAPID TRANSIT EXPANSION STUDY . I can't imagine it's for anything else...

Soil Removal The TTC just tendered a contract to remove contaminated soil at the site - $60 M dollars worth. Yikes. Does look like they're moving along with this though.

1) Platform length is about 150m.. +/- say 10 m. 2) Not too sure, I'd guess between 600 - 800 m but you could probably read it off Google Maps, if you know the station exit locations and platform lengths.

Any sign of activity on 24 and 25 today?

Noone has pointed this out but where did you get the idea it takes 105 mins to go from Kipling to Kennedy? It takes no more than an hour under normal conditions. So much for "203%" capacity improvement.... 120 / 103 is a 16% (theoretical) capacity improvement. Maybe you can see why you're...

Greenwood, Wilson, Davisville, Vincent?

They've had assigned seating for most of the VIA trips I've taken in the last year - all economy class.

There's a presentation deck from the contractor information session available http://www2.ttc.ca/docs/TYSSE%20Construction%20Information%20Session%20Presentation%20Final%20Update%20120409.pdf Mostly technical information, tunnel drives, construction methods, etc.

GO just put out a tender for "Engineering Assignment for Georgetown South – Weston Depressed Rail Corridor ". Closing date is January 5 - looks like they're trying to get this going. I think this is one of the biggest parts of the project IIRC...

http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/12/08/live-chat-kevin-libin-on-the-trouble-with-transit.aspx http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=2314363&p=2 This "prof" is absolutely delusional. Toronto would be unliveable without public transit. As would every...

Surely it's better to delay the opening than to have to live with this for years... A competent contractor might even be able to rush and redo it by the 20th, who knows.

They want to get rid of the H5 and H6's completely, and just have T1's on the BD line, and full TR's on the YUS. YOu can probably read about it on Steve Munro's site, and the Subway Rail yard study released last month.

The problem I can foresee with Dundas, Queen, King, etc is that the platforms are pretty narrow... if you split the boarding and disembarking passenger flows it'd be single file in each direction.

On a semi-related thread, is there a reason other than cost that there aren't crossovers between every station? I suppose the max speed limit going through a crossover might slow the line down but there must be a way to put in higher speed switches and signalling...

That would be ideal if there were crossovers at St Clair and Summerhill. Unfortunately there aren't... the closest ones south of Summerhill are at Bloor. Not sure if there are any south of St Clair but the reversing trains would have been entering into the damaged section anyway.

Did these ever get submitted to the TTC?

There's an open house for the Sheppard West station design tonight.

Yeah but even if Flaherty does scrounge some money that otherwise wouldn't have gone to transit for the capital cost, GO is still saddled with the large operational cost of running mostly empty trains to Peterborough and back.

According to the draft EPR the TTC is proposing a 7-bay bus terminal at the northeast corner of Don Mills and Eglinton.... two LRT lines! Am I missing something or does this make no sense at all? The TTC even says there won't be any local bus service along Eglinton.