Leo_Chan
Senior Member
I believe tunnelling ended many months ago, they were being disassembled and are only now coming out.I had for gotton about the east end and thought the tunnelling ended ended
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I believe tunnelling ended many months ago, they were being disassembled and are only now coming out.I had for gotton about the east end and thought the tunnelling ended ended
I believe tunnelling ended many months ago, they were being disassembled and are only now coming out.
If they don't rename it, it would either be because the forgot or have no logic what so ever.Anyone have any idea when the western TBMs, Dennis and Lea, will be extracted? They are presumably still sitting under Eglinton Avenue at about Duplex. They finished months ahead of the eastern TBMs, Don and Humber, but I guess they'll be removed as part of the Eglinton LRT platform construction. Btw, this station (LRT and subway) should be renamed Eglinton-Yonge, but whatever.
Like I said before, forget duguid. I hope he loses his seat.Eglinton East LRT won't be getting more funding from the Province: http://www.insidetoronto.com/news-s...nton-east-lrt-has-merit-won-t-get-more-funds/
You are the one who's going around telling us how the LRT is inferior to your plan. If anything, you're the armchair critic.
the people living in a fantasy land are those that think a 1 stop subway will help the majority of people living in scarborough or bring all this development and think that 3.5B which will increase is ok for a 1 stop. And even if tis built and development comes, people will be against the developementYes vote out all people telling the truth and we can all live in a fantasy land.
@Palma - this may not be a rational universe and the journey back from the planning stupidity to something resembling normal planning, approval, construction and completion is long. This year marks the first completion of something material - TYSSE - in a very long time.the people living in a fantasy land are those that think a 1 stop subway will help the majority of people living in scarborough or bring all this development and think that 3.5B which will increase is ok for a 1 stop. And even if tis built and development comes, people will be against the developement
I'm just critiquing how Crosstown West seems to going towards the way of real rapid transit (all the midblock stops getting omitted, grade separated stations, elevation over Eglinton Flats) meanwhile Crosstown East is stuck with a 18-stop milk run service stopping every 500 metres or so, that in my opinion - based on current alightings at each intersection where a stop is proposed - seems highly unnecessary. How many people are getting off at Falmouth, Mason and West Hill outside of school hours? 100 combined tops?
With the BD subway extended to Scarborough Centre, and Durham Pulse BRT along Ellesmere, the fastest way to travel between UTCS and Kennedy will be a combination of bus to STC and one-stop subway ride. Eglinton East LRT will be slower than that, even if it has 12 stops instead of 18. There may be more value in tailoring that LRT for shorter trips.
Crosstown West may be treated as a special case, since it has two large destinations at the western end; Pearson terminals and the Airport South employment cluster. A very large percentage of riders will travel to those places, either boarding at a major interchange like Yonge, Allen, Mt Dennis, or transferring from a N-S bus route.
In such case, a service model with fast trips / wide stop spacing, and a parallel bus route to serve minor stops, is quite reasonable.
Other LRT lines or sections, such as Crosstown East, ECLRT between Laird and Kennedy, or Finch, are more for local service than from long end-to-end trips. Removal of local stops may be less justifiable.
With the BD subway extended to Scarborough Centre, and Durham Pulse BRT along Ellesmere, the fastest way to travel between UTCS and Kennedy will be a combination of bus to STC and one-stop subway ride. Eglinton East LRT will be slower than that, even if it has 12 stops instead of 18. There may be more value in tailoring that LRT for shorter trips.