EFSF Jaburo
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A full subway line on Eglinton will work, mostly because the spacing of the stations will be much further apart than that of Bloor line- making travel to the Yonge line - and consequently downtown, much faster.
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Umm no, Subway's lowest speed would be 30 km/h, while average LRT would be about 22. So LRT's about 2/3 of the speed of subway. That's a pretty huge difference.lrt is not that much slower. Subway with bd style station spacing goes at 28-30km/hr, while lrt would be 25. Lrt could easily grow to accomodate demand.
I've had my initial quarrels with Transit City but if you ask me now, I think it's a master move by David Miller.
Where a Toronto mayoral term is marked by one subway project -- if any -- David Miller has put in place a plan to cover the entire city in right-of-way light rail transit. He got it funded and it's going ahead. Think about that again for one second: The entire city will have access to dependable, predictable transit.
Most of these lines can later be upgraded to meet demand, by either ordering longer trams or by tunneling under the existing ROW to build subway lines.
In the meantime, we're not left without badly needed transit waiting decades for a system to be built piecemeal.
I think LRT lines should be added to the TTC subway map. St. Clair Line for example.
Subway maps are for rapid transit, not buses on rails.
It wouldn't surprise me if instead of installing fare dispensing machines and fare collection machines the TTC had people sitting on chairs at stops or inside each door will old school glass fare boxes.
It wouldn't surprise me if instead of installing fare dispensing machines and fare collection machines the TTC had people sitting on chairs at stops or inside each door will old school glass fare boxes.