Asher is correct about why the relief line was put on Queen and it was stated in the media many times. They wanted the stops at city hall even though in their own analysis King street was the best option for the relief line. I wrote the councillors about it at the time. King street is the appropriate route for the relief line and a Queen subway should be a separate line
If the platforms are still being built for 100 metres, why did the station boxes get smaller in all the drawings?
I see. I interpreted your statement as talking about initial and long-run capacity, not design capacity. From what I can tell, there's actually no plan to use 100m trains.
Not true. They're actually procuring fewer trainsets based on the shorter trains and lower tph. My understanding from reading the PDBC is that the first point at which they'll reevaluate and procure additional sets is 2041, and (obviously) the cost reduction is in the 100s of millions. That's partially how the total cost was reduced.
The first image is not showing the station box but the length of the platform. If you compare with the actual buildings shown in the 2nd drawing above, the distance between the two dotted lines is indeed 100m. The station box is way more than 100m.
On Steve Munro’s site, the white box is indicated as bedrock.
Well I hope you are right, but I remember the infamous Canada Line platforms that are supposedly 40-metres long - expandable to 60 metres. But when push comes to shove, they aren't so expandable without huge construction projects!
If I remember correctly, that's the pile of crap they sold.
ML went with deep tube tunnel instead of the shallow cut and cover tunnel. This allows them to dig one continuous tunnel from Exhibition to Distillery. Otherwise they'll need to have an excavation shaft on Queen somewhere and transition to cut and cover creating long stretches of multi year closure. This approach makes it easier to build and less road closures.
Did they? When has Metrolinx even released drawings showing detailed platform lengths? I’ve never seen any.
To avoid adding to the congestion should (key word "should") the police, traffic constables, or whoever, should be able to take "photo" evidence (can we get an app for that) along with date, time, and GPS location of the offending vehicle, and pass that information to the police (or whoever). Then send a notice of infraction to the vehicle owner. Maybe even include a fine for that infraction (IE. driving on the transit right-of-way).
Nothing detailed - but on each and every station "plan" they issues in the last round, the station box was noticeably smaller. It was far too consistent to be an error. Though I suppose it's not impossible that the previous round included the entire box, and the new round only included the platforms.
Someone should ask about platform lengths at the next live session. Changing the station boxes and platform lengths is in line with the change in the PDBC in only planning for 80m trains.
