ssiguy2
Senior Member
Of course the fastest and easiest to build would also save a cool $2.5 billion on the SRT replacement section is just to run MK111 cars and grade separate the Eglinton line so the entire corridor is grade separated SkyTrain. This is what Metrolinx wanted to originally do until Miller's LRT or nothing transit plan written on the back of napkin come into vogue. No other city on the planet would EVER consider tearing down a functional rapid transit line to be replaced by another along the same route.
LRT was the worse choice for both Eglinton and SRT.............costs are nearly the same but FAR lower capacity, slower, less reliable, more disruptive to the road, frequency potential only half of a grade separated system, and more expensive to run because it can't be automated.
LRT was the worse choice for both Eglinton and SRT.............costs are nearly the same but FAR lower capacity, slower, less reliable, more disruptive to the road, frequency potential only half of a grade separated system, and more expensive to run because it can't be automated.