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It really sucks that the western portion of this line has to wait until the entire tunnel is bored before work can start on stations. Such a pointless delay. Stations should start construction the day the boring machine leaves the extraction shaft to be moved east of the Allen.
 
Tuscani01 said:
It really sucks that the western portion of this line has to wait until the entire tunnel is bored before work can start on stations. Such a pointless delay. Stations should start construction the day the boring machine leaves the extraction shaft to be moved east of the Allen.
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yes, but perhaps they can't spend all the budget in 3-4 years, hence the need to spread it across 7-8 years?
 
sixrings said:
Hoping smart track stops at Mount Dennis and the eglinton let gets extended to Pearson.
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Eglinton won't go to Pearson for another 30 years.

Regular GO REX service with a people mover connection to Pearson seems highly likely within the next 10 years though, possibly even before funded Eglinton portions open.
 
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JasonParis said:
Or one services YYZ properly while the other does the Airport Corporate Centre (just over the Mississauga border).
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Yeah, it could make sense to serve the Airport Corporate Centre, which is a completely different destination from the actual airport, and has tons of jobs.
 
nfitz said:
It is still in Metrolinx's Big Move update released last year, in the 15-year plan.
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When HSR trains (MTO EA starts this fall?) stop somewhere along the Georgetown corridor and require a people mover extended to it, and normal GO trains also happen to stop at that station and intercepting Eglinton and Bloor lines, any money extending Eglinton to the airport looks a lot less appealing. This is doubly true if the fare integration question is answered in a meaningful way.

I figure that Eglinton extension to the airport will disappear from the plans around 2017. A Finch extension, however, still has a business case.


Smart Track may morph into a westward extension of Eglinton, but I don't think it'll go to the airport. Pure speculation of how the politics will play out, of course.
 
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rbt said:
I figure that Eglinton extension to the airport will disappear from the plans around 2017. A Finch extension, however, still has a business case.
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We've built all sorts of things in the past without a business case (Sheppard. VCC extension), and we are currently contemplating building a Danforth Extension with a debatable business case. Eglinton LRT is far cheaper than any of these other business case failures. It might not be the BEST use of funds but that hasn't stopped anything in the past and will likely not stop anything in the future. Once people see these LRTs everywhere (Waterloo, Mississauga, Hamilton, Finch, Sheppard, Eglinton) they are going to want more lines and the existing lines finished. No one likes a incomplete network and what is the point of building cheaper than subway LRT if we cant complete the network?
 
sixrings said:
Hoping smart track stops at Mount Dennis and the eglinton let gets extended to Pearson.
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JasonParis said:
Or one services YYZ properly while the other does the Airport Corporate Centre (just over the Mississauga border).
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rbt said:
Eglinton won't go to Pearson for another 30 years.

Regular GO REX service with a people mover connection to Pearson seems highly likely within the next 10 years though, possibly even before funded Eglinton portions open.
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ehlow said:
Yeah, it could make sense to serve the Airport Corporate Centre, which is a completely different destination from the actual airport, and has tons of jobs.
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rbt said:
When HSR trains (MTO EA starts this fall?) stop somewhere along the Georgetown corridor and require a people mover extended to it, and normal GO trains also happen to stop at that station and intercepting Eglinton and Bloor lines, any money extending Eglinton to the airport looks a lot less appealing. This is doubly true if the fare integration question is answered in a meaningful way.

I figure that Eglinton extension to the airport will disappear from the plans around 2017. A Finch extension, however, still has a business case.


Smart Track may morph into a westward extension of Eglinton, but I don't think it'll go to the airport. Pure speculation of how the politics will play out, of course.
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sixrings said:
We've built all sorts of things in the past without a business case (Sheppard. VCC extension), and we are currently contemplating building a Danforth Extension with a debatable business case. Eglinton LRT is far cheaper than any of these other business case failures. It might not be the BEST use of funds but that hasn't stopped anything in the past and will likely not stop anything in the future. Once people see these LRTs everywhere (Waterloo, Mississauga, Hamilton, Finch, Sheppard, Eglinton) they are going to want more lines and the existing lines finished. No one likes a incomplete network and what is the point of building cheaper than subway LRT if we cant complete the network?
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RBT what reason do you want to extend Finch to the airport that cant' be done by Eglinton? Eglinton Ave in the City of York area also has a huge amount of airport workers. Eglinton has just as much a business case as Finch. Eglinton is the crosstown. I agree with sixrings.
 
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denfromoakvillemilton said:
RBT what reason do you want to extend Finch to the airport that cant' be done by Eglinton? Eglinton Ave in the City of York area also has a huge amount of airport workers. Eglinton has just as much a business case as Finch. Eglinton is the crosstown. I agree with sixrings.
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Eglinton to the airport will be covered by GO Georgetown service via a transfer at some station along Eglinton. Finch doesn't have an equivalent.

Second to that, Humber College and an alternative/replacement of the 191 Rocket are a good reason to hook Finch into the GO system at it's western terminus. It's not so much Finch going to the airport as Finch connecting to GO, and GO being at the airport.
 
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rbt said:
Eglinton to the airport will be covered by GO Georgetown service via a transfer at some station along Eglinton. Finch doesn't have an equivalent.

Second to that, Humber College and an alternative/replacement of the 191 Rocket are a good reason to hook Finch into the GO system at it's western terminus. It's not so much Finch going to the airport as Finch connecting to GO, and GO being at the airport.
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If you don't extend Eglinton people from Royal York, Islington, and Kipling will have to use bloor as their route to Yonge and bloor or st George before heading downtown. Extending Eglinton also helps relieve the Bloor line.
 
rbt said:
Eglinton to the airport will be covered by GO Georgetown service via a transfer at some station along Eglinton. Finch doesn't have an equivalent.

Second to that, Humber College and an alternative/replacement of the 191 Rocket are a good reason to hook Finch into the GO system at it's western terminus. It's not so much Finch going to the airport as Finch connecting to GO, and GO being at the airport.
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Not the same at all. That does nothing for people that live along Kipling or Martin Grove.
 
Marlee Avenue is your friend between Eglinton and Lawrence.

Roselawn Avenue or Ridelle Avenue are your friends when bypassing Eglinton and Allen.
 
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