Johnny Au
Senior Member
An opportunity to make Eglinton station Spanish solution had been missed.
An opportunity to make Eglinton station Spanish solution had been missed.
An opportunity to make Eglinton station Spanish solution had been missed.
They're not touching the station box in any way. The moved platform space currently exists and holds equipment that will be relocated.
Changing the station box would add a few hundred million to the price.
Don't want one anyway. Crowding at Bloor may force them to purposefully add a choke point at Eglinton to prevent people from filling Yonge line trains.
I thought most people agreed that Wellington is best route, and that it should go to Spadina at least in the 1st phase. If you wanted it further north I'd think Adelaide or Richmond would be preferred.
I can't even imagine the 10 year nightmare subway construction on Queen would cause for the massive amounts of people who currently rely on the streetcars.
Queen is too far north, it misses too much of the core and queen has strict development restrictions on it, at least in the west.
St. George's single platform seems bigger though. Eglinton's has a wall close to the edge of the platform.
When it is a bad day and there are delays at rush hour, the Eglinton platform can quickly become immobilized. I'm imagining that will be the everyday rush-hour scenario once the crosstown is built. Unless of course the new platform is wider.
Agreed on all counts. Spadina is key because it would add one more interceptor to the Spadina streetcar line, effectively bisecting the ridership (northbound to Bloor, southbound to Union).
Agreed. Queen is a lot like Bloor, in that it's not going to be substantially redeveloped just because the streetcar was swapped out for the subway. Just look at how much development has occurred along Bloor West since the subway opened (aside from a few pockets)… *crickets*. Queen would be much of the same. King on the other hand is already being transformed, as is Liberty Village.
I'd also think that Wellington/Front would be much easier to construct on since it still has more vacant lots & parking lots than Queen.
Despite all the fanfare about "south core", the traditional financial district still holds lion's share of office space between Front and Queen (as well as the few towers between Queen and Dundas). Front/Wellington will be too far in the south. An Adelaide/King alignment seems to make more sense. It can both relieve the Yonge line, but also lessen the pressure on 504/501, where are extremely crowded.
Maybe a route in between King and Queen to serve both of them perhaps.