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Tory rail plan nudges TTC relief line off track
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...ef-line-off-track/article21529398/?cmpid=rss1
Despite the headline, there's nothing in the article itself that indicates that Tory's DumberThanTrack plan does actually impact the DRL with any certainty. There's more in the article about the union's proposal than the DRL.
The relevant text in the article about the DRL is:
... (Byford) said that one outcome could be a change in the timing of an underground relief line.
“I don’t think that need goes away, the mayor-elect hasn’t said that that need has gone away. The critical issue will be when will that additional capacity be needed,” Mr. Byford said.
“What you have to do is do the modelling, and that process is not yet been completed. So that’s something we’ve got in hand at the moment. You’ve got to do the modelling, with SmartTrack now as one of the base assumptions of that modelling.”
So Tory HASN'T said that DRL goes away. Byford says they haven't done the demand modelling yet for the DRL. And that they'll do the model including the inclusion of the Tory's plan.
So if I'm wrong, and the 15-minute rail service between Kennedy and Union does actually significantly relieve Bloor-Yonge station, then the DRL is delayed. But I doubt it will actually do relieve Bloor-Yonge station, or the southbound Yonge ridership, particularly the critical points between Rosedale and Bloor, or even that much from Bloor to Wellesley.