RedRocket191
Senior Member
I'm quite surprised that there's no mention of a future streetcar line...
Aside from the 1997 report, which recommended against streetcar service on the southern half of Dufferin, I am missing something?
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I'm quite surprised that there's no mention of a future streetcar line...
The 1997 report has definitely been superceded, though, since a lot of the Transit City routes wouldn't have met its requirements for streetcar service.
Remember that Dufferin is only the busiest bus route because it is one of the few which go both north and south of Bloor.
it stops early on at Wilson, which actually helps.
The Dufferin width is the same as Bathurst isn't it? Streetcar service works well there.
So what do they plan to do on Jane?
Plans change ... the problem here, is that the Dufferin bus is starting to approach the point, where it just can't carry more people, and they need larger vehicles. No one is suggesting that streetcars on Bathurst be converted to bus, or that a separated right-of-way be built. And I don't really here a lot of complaints about the service on Bathurst (though I admit I'm not on that part of town). So I don't know why streetcar tracks wouldn't be considered - far cheaper than putting them in a subway.Yes it does, but the city's unofficial policy (it may be official) is that no new streetcar routes will run in mixed traffic.
Not 100% decided, but not mixed traffic, an not in a separate on-street ROW south of St. Clair. The original suggestion was to put it in a subway south of St. Clair.So what do they plan to do on Jane?