I’m not too sure how this applies? Station naming by MX usually goes off of the adjacent communities near stations. Names like “Richview” and “Princess Gardens” are likely, as they clearly denote the surrounding area.
Sorry, to be more clear: The City's Eglinton Crosstown east is now being planned as not contiguous with the central Crosstown. My understanding was that Crosstown west would be an extension of the central Crosstown, therfore using the same vehicles with continuous service Airport <-> Kennedy. If that's the case, it doesn't make sense to have ATO on west, because they couldn't run ATO on the eastern segment of central Crosstown. So the inclusion of ATO makes me wonder if they plan to separate the service: Crosstown west, central, east. That just seems strange.
I don't see any reason they can't use ATO on part of the line - after all they've been operating part of Line 1 as ATO for years, without the whole line being completed.
True ATC is active on parts of Line 1, but they will be getting to full ATC to enable the shorter headways. Probably not ATO though, at least not with current labor agreements. I suppose it is good to future proof it for ATO, but you'd need technology to be a few steps ahead of where it is now to allow ATO on the surface segment of crosstown. And I don't think they'd switch back and forth, because then the operator is just sitting there for >70% of their operating time. The only way they could run ATO in the short-term is from Leaside west.
I'd assume that if it's ATO it can do both, with the operator still closing the doors.
The original Crosstown will use ATO west of the Brentcliffe portal (from Laird to Mount Dennis), and switch over to ATP east of there until Kennedy. This can all be done without any kind of service splitting. The Eglinton West extension will just extend the ATO zone west to Renforth.
The shared freight track that is used at best once a day during the nighttime, and that moves so slowly there's someone out walking ahead of the train through all the intersections. I've never seen more than 3 or 4 freight cars on that train.
Why would this transfer be advantageous? They will be able to turn trains around at Laird if schedules aren't being maintained on the surface portion.
Great, we deliberately broke the connection with the Ontario Line because we decided to create a 15 billion dollar streetcar and placed a station at Sunnybrook with less ridership than Bessarion
Or we could, you know, treat the Leslie crossing as a grade crossing rather than street running.