So it looks like having a new alignment east of Brentcliffe has reached the point of no return? =\
About 5 years ago, the grade-separated Eglinton/SRT "subway" was maybe less expensive than the median LRT.
Then when the large diameter TBM's were ordered, it would cost a couple of hundred million more for the larger tunnels, but Eglinton/SRT is still possible.
Then when the LRT vehciles were ordered, it would cost a couple of hundred million more to reconfigure the SRT, but Eglinton/SRT is still possible.
Then the inevitable complaints about the Kennedy transfer arose and a couple of hundred million in cancellation fees appeared imminent because of the B-D subway extension decision, but the Eglinton/SRT is still possible.
Then when the launch shaft was located in the median at/near Brentecliffe, it would cost a couple of hundred million more to have an underground cross-over and pocket track. Now it appears that the Eglinton/SRT line is finally dead.
(Maybe there was another couple of hundred million available in cancelling the Conlins Yard and building storage garage near the hydro corridor).
The next question will be, now that we have continually made the wrong decisions on the Eglinton line - what can be done to salvage some semblance of a transit line towards a transportation system.
I wouldn't have imagined that the Provincial Liberals would screw up transit as badly as they did when Andrea Horvath decided to prop them up last Spring. Although judging by how they have messed up Health, Education, Finance, Energy, Attorney General, etc., etc.*, maybe it shouldn't have been a surprise at all.
* - actually, off hand I can not think of one Ministry that has performed well over the past 10 years.