TheTigerMaster
Superstar
Council never voted to cancel Transit City.
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Council never voted to cancel Transit City.
DopeyFish
Active Member
i never said they did. I'm just saying they (the province) were going along with whatever happened and aligned themselves with whatever the city/mayor/city and mayor chose to do. Why? Because it's a city project.
It's not their job to dictate what happens within the city.
BurlOak
Senior Member
Subway Champion . . cough . . cough.
kd86
New Member
What an epic fail. The line should of been treated as a regional corridor. There no reason why they couldn't have made the line light metro (grade-separated) from malvern to Mississauga with a branch servicing the airport, but I guess that would have made too much sense. From a broader perspective its really frustrating knowing that metrolinx regional transportation plan has no solid solution of getting riders across the GTA with out going downtown. REX and Smart Track would require rider to travel through Union to go to destination beyond and the proposed crosstown LRT in its current proposal would be too slow to justify getting on a train to the airport. What about the rider that live in Malvern but need to get to Mississauga or the airport. Are we really going to tell them to go there via Union or take a a 1 hr plus LRT ride......come on.
Leo_Chan
Senior Member
This is why a “401 Transitway” should exist, whether it be like the Mississauga Transitway, or just bus bypass lanes like on the 403 between the Transitway sections, it would be used by hundreads (thousands?) of buses a day. Forget about the 407 Transitway as it is too out of the way and doesn’t have many destinations in the corridor compared to the 401.
MisterF
Senior Member
To me what's most important is that the trains operate completely independently of car traffic. This can be done with LRT lines that are mostly at grade, like in Edmonton for example.
W. K. Lis
Superstar
You have until 12 p.m. (noon) December 4, 2017 to complete the Online Survey at http://www.eglintonwestlrt.ca/
The direct link to the survey is at this link.
The direct link to the survey is at this link.
Midtown Urbanist
Superstar
Filled it out. Suggested expropriation of the townhouses and using the Richview Corridor for elevated, for all the good that suggestion is.
Steve X
Senior Member
If they can't dig under Martin Grove and Eglinton easily cause of the Enbridge gasline, why don't they consider building even taller hydro towers that can allow the station to be elevated. Problem solved. Can't let the Hydro companies preventing structures under hydro corridors anymore if this city is going to grow.
BurlOak
Senior Member
There are many ways to proceed (Lower Eglinton, raise the hydro lines, put some type of insulator between LRT power and hydro lines, use track level rail to have greater separation between transit power and hydro lines, duck the LRT under the intersection), but the problem is that there is likely a large group in City Planning that thinks at-grade median operation is better than grade-separated. It's not a question of what is technically achievable, or what the cost - they want to create a future Queen Street and not a rapid transit corridor.
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W. K. Lis
Superstar
They buried the hydro lines east of the Humber River when they constructed the Gardiner Expressway. They can bury the hydro lines in the Kipling & Eglinton intersection.
The bridge is at the now demolished Sunnyside railway station at Roncesvalles and Lake Shore.
The bridge is at the now demolished Sunnyside railway station at Roncesvalles and Lake Shore.
BMO
Senior Member
This would never fly. Those townhouses were just built in the past two or three years. It's a political non-starter
Midtown Urbanist
Superstar
sixrings
Senior Member
maxt797
Active Member
Whats the status on surface level progress east of Don Mills? When do we expect to see first track?