Database files coming soon, but here are the first renderings in the meantime:
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Adjei
Senior Member
I wonder why no renders for East Harbour station.
jxmyth_
Senior Member
Too many other stakeholders maybe?
TossYourJacket
Senior Member
My guess is that will get its own announcement when they've worked out more of the overall plan for the area with Cadillac Fairview.
Agreed: re the East Harbour speculation above.
Here's the neighbourhood context map for Exhibition Station:
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Here's the neighbourhood context map for Exhibition Station:
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UtakataNoAnnex
Senior Member
A little confused here. Is this project planning to use existing rail corridors or its own dedicated track that follows the existing corridors in part?
I also had presumed likely incorrectly that this would be a new subway system for relief line purposes that's being expanded upon. The renderings seem to suggest a LRT system with overhead cables for a power source...so I can now assume this isn't a subway project in the truest sense? Or am I misreading this?
I also had presumed likely incorrectly that this would be a new subway system for relief line purposes that's being expanded upon. The renderings seem to suggest a LRT system with overhead cables for a power source...so I can now assume this isn't a subway project in the truest sense? Or am I misreading this?
These tracks will be built to the north of the existing GO Tracks. Yes, there's a pantograph shown on the top of the Ontario Line train, trains that won't be running for at least 8 years, by which time the GO Trains pictured likely should have different, electric locos pulling them too. No wires shown for any of them though, and I wouldn't read too much into the renderings in that regard anyway.
Heavy rail equipment around the world works with pantographs, no reason that could not be put on the trains that end up on this system, which won't be as large and heavy as the Line 1, 2, and 4 trains anyway. No reason to not call it a subway either.
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UtakataNoAnnex
Senior Member
Fair enough! And thanks for answering that. /bows
DopeyFish
Active Member
it doesn't look like they left any room for the waterfront LRT 
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daptive
Active Member
Agreed: re the East Harbour speculation above.
Here's the neighbourhood context map for Exhibition Station:
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Hope future revisions better incorporates the streetcar loop
teddles
New Member
Some valid criticisms already. Part of what I love about this site. However. I for one couldn’t be more excited by the promise shown in these renders, and look forward to returning to this thread a million times in the next decade.
Translude15
Frank the Tank
How many years in until we see somebody scaling that roof and ending up on the Gardiner?
People in some downtown condos could be jumping onto the Gardiner now, or from the Dufferin Street bridge, and it doesn't happen.
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Red October
Senior Member
...and you'll still have to walk halfway back to Strachan to get on the 509/511 streetcars.
innsertnamehere
Superstar
That will likely change once the streetcar tracks are extended to the Dufferin Loop. The city has been waiting for the design of Exhibition station to be finalized before advancing that plan, but from my understanding they have funding for it.