44 North
Senior Member
Just for fun; since there’s been discussions on here about what to do with the SRT corridor, with great ideas like having it become a branch of SmartTrack - I thought about having it instead become part of an RER DRL. I love the idea of a branched system, and what better line to have branches than the DRL?
It should be pretty obvious what’s happening on this map: From Don Mills/Eglinton, one branch runs up Don Mills for 2.5km then uses the RH corridor to RHC. The two others use the Midtown corridor (which was in the news recently re: political desire to reroute freight traffic). The second branch would connect to the Stouffville corridor to Unionville (thus replacing a portion of SmartTrack), and the third branch would run below Ellesmere for 2km to use the former SRT corridor to STC.
Considering SmartTrack has an absurd TEN KILOMETRE tunnelled (or elevated) section to an office park in the outskirts of ‘Sauga, I think this could give it a run for its money - both in terms of cost, value, and how realistic it could be. I’m not saying this is realistic, but compared to whatever’s going on with ST’s Eglinton spur; I think this could be more practical/possible. Costs for this branched DRL RER system could be cannibalized from the Scarb Subway (~$3.5bn), SELRT (~$1bn), Eglinton East (~$1bn), and I guess SmartTrack.
It should be pretty obvious what’s happening on this map: From Don Mills/Eglinton, one branch runs up Don Mills for 2.5km then uses the RH corridor to RHC. The two others use the Midtown corridor (which was in the news recently re: political desire to reroute freight traffic). The second branch would connect to the Stouffville corridor to Unionville (thus replacing a portion of SmartTrack), and the third branch would run below Ellesmere for 2km to use the former SRT corridor to STC.
Considering SmartTrack has an absurd TEN KILOMETRE tunnelled (or elevated) section to an office park in the outskirts of ‘Sauga, I think this could give it a run for its money - both in terms of cost, value, and how realistic it could be. I’m not saying this is realistic, but compared to whatever’s going on with ST’s Eglinton spur; I think this could be more practical/possible. Costs for this branched DRL RER system could be cannibalized from the Scarb Subway (~$3.5bn), SELRT (~$1bn), Eglinton East (~$1bn), and I guess SmartTrack.