EnviroTO
Senior Member
GTA Transit 2040: Hamilton
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micheal_can
Senior Member
While 2040 is about 15 years away, I highly doubt all of this will come to fruition. It would do a lot to move everyone around and make the area better.
EnviroTO
Senior Member
GTA Transit 2040: Map Legend
EnviroTO
Senior Member
GTA Transit 2040: Already existing, under construction, or in procurement:
GTA Transit 2040: Already in active study
- Line 1 (towards Richmond Hill): Extension from Finch to High Tech in procurement.
- Line 2 (towards Woodside): Extension from Kennedy to East Village (Sheppard East) under construction.
- Line 3: New line extending westward (towards Pearson) to Exhibition, and northwards (towards Markham) to Don Crossing (Science Centre)
- Line 5: New line opening soon from Mount Dennis to Kennedy.
- Line 5 (towards Renforth): Extension from Mount Dennis to Renforth is under construction.
- Line 6: New line opening soon from Elia (Finch West) to Humber College.
- Line 8: New line from McMaster eastward (towards Confederation) to Eastgate is in procurement.
- Line 10: New line from Port Credit extending northward (towards Brampton Centre) to Uptown Main (Brampton Gateway Terminal) is under construction.
- Line A: Corridor improvements under way to increase services, new stations at Confederation and East Harbour under construction.
- Line C: Corridor improvements under way to increase services, new stations at Grandstand (Woodbine Racetrack), Mount Dennis, Stockyards (St Clair West), Liberty, West Harbour, and L'Amoreaux (Finch East) are in various stages from early procurement to full construction.
- Line D: Corridor improvements under way to increase services, new stations at Caledonia and Lansdowne in early procurement.
GTA Transit 2040: Already in active study
- Line 4: Extensions west from Yonge and east from Parkway Forest (Fairview) - https://www.metrolinx.com/en/projects-and-programs/sheppard-extension
- Line 7: Study of this route as a busway initially - https://www.metrolinx.com/en/projects-and-programs/queen-st-hwy-7-brt
- Line 9: Sections of this route are under study as a busway initially by Halton (Trafalgar Road BRT) and Metrolinx (Dundas BRT)
- Line 11: Under study for enhancement as part of the BLAST network route A.
- Line B: Commitment to increase service to all day from the province by 2031.
- Line E: Stations for this line are in Vaughan and Bolton planning documents and work is progressing on the business case.
mossynukes
Active Member
amazing work, these look great
EnviroTO
Senior Member
GTA Transit 2040: Downtown Toronto Map
Diez Mil Cantos
New Member
Really liking this map! A couple names might need a bit of tweaking
Fashion (way outside of fashion district) - alternatives: Clarence Square (to the north) or City Place (to the south)
Pape Village (for outsiders this might be too vague) alternative: Cosburn, Pape-Cosburn
Dentonia Park - alternative: Crescentown?
EnviroTO
Senior Member
Note that:
- Fashion District is defined by the area bound by Front, Bathurst, Queen, and Blue Jay Way. For a long time there were many clothiers around Wellington including a sock factory right across from Clarence Square. Connections to the rail corridor were key to that industry at the time.
- Where possible (where there isn't a naming overlap), all names have been aligned with the Business Improvement Area names. In Pape Village, all the street signs show Pape Village if you go to Google Maps street view, so the station name that matches would further grow awareness of this place name.
- Dentonia Park is the historic name for the whole area. Susan Massey (family member of the prominent Massey family of the mid-1800s to mid-1900s e.g. Massey Hall, Massey Ferguson, etc) donated their home in Dentonia Park, originally situated next to a farm used to supply milk to the growing city, to the Crescent School. The Crescent School sold the site to developers that led to the development of Crescent Town neighbourhood, which sits in Dentonia Park (as does Dentonia Park the park, and Dentonia Park Golf Course). Crescent School moved to its location on Bayview near Bridal Path and across from the Granite Club after selling the property to developers. Interestingly Victoria Park was an amusement park located where R C Harris Water Treatment is now located... so Dentonia Park (the area, park and golf course at the station) is far more accurate than Victoria Park which was located at Queen Street.
JasonParis
Moderator
I like West Bend for Dundas West-Bloor. I'm fine with Danforth Village too (for Danforth-Main), but some may not like it sharing the full name of Line 2.
innsertnamehere
Superstar
I would also probably add a Windemere Avenue stop on the Ontario Line.
Willybru21
Active Member
Here’s a map on the GO Transit Lakeshore Line initial proposal in the early 1960’s:
Also did a version of the map that shows what the line ended up looking like upon opening:
Also did a version of the map that shows what the line ended up looking like upon opening:
Bureaucromancer
Active Member
With how persistently crosstown has been coming up lately I've been playing with possible service patterns, and this is the one I'm happiest with at the moment.
I do note that there is a lot of room for deferring or outright cancelling eastern branches... I'm particularly thinking that the eastern Markham branch is probably wholly redundant if the Stoufville line chord is built and there is no Pickering Airport in play (and in an either/or scenario I think Unionville would be the better terminal); but otoh it would be VERY cheap if VIA is using this as their city entrance, and has any kind of desire for a Markham station. Similarly, while I feel like the northern Durham corridor is more important on a multi decadal scale the Pickering connection is probably more useful today. I could definitely see a lot in favor of staging this with Picking to the Junction rolled into Milton expansion and putting off much of the rest of it into future projects.
I do note that there is a lot of room for deferring or outright cancelling eastern branches... I'm particularly thinking that the eastern Markham branch is probably wholly redundant if the Stoufville line chord is built and there is no Pickering Airport in play (and in an either/or scenario I think Unionville would be the better terminal); but otoh it would be VERY cheap if VIA is using this as their city entrance, and has any kind of desire for a Markham station. Similarly, while I feel like the northern Durham corridor is more important on a multi decadal scale the Pickering connection is probably more useful today. I could definitely see a lot in favor of staging this with Picking to the Junction rolled into Milton expansion and putting off much of the rest of it into future projects.
Willybru21
Active Member
I know this technically isn’t a map, but it has all of my maps inside it. I reached 200 GO Transit centred maps today!
Woodbridge_Heights
Senior Member
I don't think the eastern portion of the Pickering rail link is necessary, especially considering it would need significant new railway. The benefit of having a rail link to any potential Pickering airport is drawing from the large population base WEST of the airport lands, not the east. GO Service should terminate at Pickering airport while VIA (or other intercity rail) continues on to Claremont and Peterborough
Bureaucromancer
Active Member
In short, I mostly agree. I've actually further simplified this and like the results better than what I ended up with earlier. Basically if you build a proper interchange station at Agincourt I'd cut GO from the northeastern line entirely unless a Pickering airport link happens (relatedly I'm somewhat torn on a Junction interchange, it would have it's uses, but on balance I'm inclined to think it's really too close to other stations to be advisable, especially given how awkward getting a platform in for mainline Milton trains would be); discounted commuter fares on HFR really should suffice for the short term demand levels to out Markham. Then eliminate the weird through running, so there is a GO Crossotown service to Pickering and a North Durham line to Union, probably through running with Milton.
I WOULD, however, defend the eastern branch to the airport if anything is built there. It opens the possibility for redirecting mainline trains, picks up a commuter market if the service isn't heavily used as an airport connector and doesn't JUST open the airport to Durham customers, but creates a link from any and all VIA services from east of Toronto. The major emphasis I'd put here through is that protecting a conceptual corridor is a whole different ballgame than actually building it. I don't even especially love Pickering Airport as a concept, but it has enough logic to it I would hold the land, and having the airport lands in place, I'd also protect rail access. If rail access is on the table, there's no good reason to not at least reserve the possibility of a through line eventually.
In the real world, given the power, I probably WOULD build an airport out there, but no passenger terminal bar a private investor paying damn near 100%. Consolidating GA at a permanent and public airport while creating a cargo reliever and keeping the door to an eastern commercial (passenger) facility does sound worthwhile though.
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