Leo_Chan
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cplchanb
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i guess they can call it don mills/eglinton.They removed the Science Centre Station name.
leopetr
Active Member
Aga Khan Station, surely
PL1
Active Member
Superstore Station. It's right there. And there's already an Aga Khan on Line 5
nfitz
Superstar
Not as surprise - they know that they'll get a ton of sarcastic comments on YouTube.They removed the Science Centre Station name.
They show the Ontario Line ending at a future Line 5. I guess that means the central section of Line 5 is still 7+ years from opening - so there may be some artistic licence here.
There's other places where similar tourist facilities are long gone - but the name remains. Look at Crystal Palace station in London. The Crystal palace has been gone since 1936, but the name remains.
The train doesn't look anything like an LRT in a North American or English-language context. The capacity is well into the heavy rail category. With the ultimate 90-second frequency touted in the video, that's 40 trains of 600(?) passengers an hour - or 24,000 passengers an hour - which the TTC and the City have called subway in their planning documents.
generalcanada
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uugh are we really going to bring up the capacity topic again?Not as surprise - they know that they'll get a ton of sarcastic comments on YouTube.
They show the Ontario Line ending at a future Line 5. I guess that means the central section of Line 5 is still 7+ years from opening - so there may be some artistic licence here.
There's other places where similar tourist facilities are long gone - but the name remains. Look at Crystal Palace station in London. The Crystal palace has been gone since 1936, but the name remains.
The train doesn't look anything like an LRT in a North American or English-language context. The capacity is well into the heavy rail category. With the ultimate 90-second frequency touted in the video, that's 40 trains of 600(?) passengers an hour - or 24,000 passengers an hour - which the TTC and the City have called subway in their planning documents.
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urbancog
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I hope we're not stepping into the Capacity Minefield again! That wasn't my intention.
I'm all for the proposed technology, having grown up in a city that's been well-served by a light weight metro system for the last 45 years. Where the vehicles were a direct copy of the German Stadtbahnwagen.
I'm all for the proposed technology, having grown up in a city that's been well-served by a light weight metro system for the last 45 years. Where the vehicles were a direct copy of the German Stadtbahnwagen.
T3G
Senior Member
The only way to get a true picture of the capacity is to compare the hourly capacity on line 1 and line 2. Does anyone have those?
nfitz
Superstar
For TR on Line 1, if you go with 1,080 a train, and a frequency of every 2 minutes, you are looking at 30,240 an hour. So about 24,000 versus 30,000.
For a TR on Line 4, it's about 20,000 - I guess that's Light Rail.
I'm not convinced this is comparable to the "Stadtbahnwagen", isn't that just the translation of LRT to German? It seems to encompass a lot of different types of lines, including some that aren't grade-separated. Looking at https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stadtbahn#Aktuelle_Definition, it says the capacity is 20,000 to 100,000 passengers a day - which is significantly less than the number of expected passengers cited in that new video - let alone the actual Line 3 capacity (say 24,000 × 18 = 432,000 per direction = 864,000 total per day).
Is there an actual line that this could be compared to - most of the lines seem relatively narrow compared to the rolling stock we are expecting - closer to 2.5 metres than 3 metres.
I'd say it's seems more similar to some of the Paris Metro rolling stock - other than being much wider, and presumably longer trains.
It puzzles me how much higher the Line 3 capacity is to a Paris Metro line, or even some of the London Tube lines, and yet we are still throwing around LRT.
(sigh - sorry to raise capacity again - it was just a passing reference)
AlvinofDiaspar
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Unless I am totally out of it - I think I am on the same GO train as the XVP every morning
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Johnny Au
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The station is very close to a Mormon meetinghouse. Perhaps the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints purchase the naming rights to the station and call it the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Station, especially given how rich that organization is and how much that organization is known to fund LRT operations, especially in its headquarters in Salt Lake City?
toronto647
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Dan416
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But why?
toronto647
Active Member
Aga Khan has 4 major sites in that area - Aga Khan Park, Aga Khan Museum, Aga Khan Park, Aga Khan Multigenerational Housing (opening 2026). Also Wynford Drive is called Aga Khan Boulevard as per the city change recently. Furthermore, Aga Khan is one of only few Honorary Canadian Citizens. See the below link for the Aga Khan's work in Canada. It only makes sense this station to be called Aga Khan.
AKDN in Canada
AKDN and the Canadian government collaborate on development aimed at breaking the cycle of poverty in parts of Africa and Asia, as well as projects in Canada
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CapitalSeven
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Or, Alice Munro station! Oh, wait...
It would be folly to name anything after an individual these days.
It would be folly to name anything after an individual these days.