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Yea the province kicked in a bunch for that too. Something like $100 million.. I believe the entire line from Dundas West to Don Mills station is expected to be pushed to shovel ready with 10% design done under existing funding. Its a real vote of confidence in the project a lot of people seem to ignore here. The DRL very well could turn out to be a ridiculous mega project for Toronto in the next decade or so if the $10 billion or so needed to build the whole thing can be secured.. ah I get caught up dreaming a little too much sometimes I think haha.
 
Yeah, that point has really gone over people's head. The Relief Line extensions are at the same point the Relief Line Short were at three years ago. Two or three years from now, for the Relief Line Long, they'll be discussions about specific alignments, station locations, community meetings, geotechnical samples, and all that exciting stuff we like to discuss here.
 
TheTigerMaster said:
Yeah, that point has really gone over people's head. The Relief Line extensions are at the same point the Relief Line Short were at three years ago. Two or three years from now, for the Relief Line Long, they'll be discussions about specific alignments, station locations, community meetings, geotechnical samples, and all that exciting stuff we like to discuss here.
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they should bite the bullet and go sheppard to dundas west/keele and then to mt dennis.
 
mjl08 said:
I'm still scratching my head around the need for the Hakimi Lebovic and Sunnybrook Park/Leslie stops.
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Leslie isn't so bad. It's a kilometre away from the nearest stops and there's a lot of office buildings leading up Leslie St from Eglinton. It's also a potential interchange site with GO Transit if they ever decide to put commuter trains on the Midtown corridor.

It's Ferrand (Aga Khan), Hakimi Lebovic and Ionview that are the useless stops with no surface connections and within a few hundred metres of other stops.
 
denfromoakvillemilton said:
they should bite the bullet and go sheppard to dundas west/keele and then to mt dennis.
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If the central Crosstown (19 kms) can be built in one shot, including a 12 kilometre tunnel, it's only fair and reasonable to assume the same could be done for the DRL. I wouldn't stop at Fairview Mall though, I'd go another 2 stops to Seneca College Newham Campus.
 
Hopkins123 said:
Leslie isn't so bad. It's a kilometre away from the nearest stops and there's a lot of office buildings leading up Leslie St from Eglinton. It's also a potential interchange site with GO Transit if they ever decide to put commuter trains on the Midtown corridor.

It's Ferrand (Aga Khan), Hakimi Lebovic and Ionview that are the useless stops with no surface connections and within a few hundred metres of other stops.
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I'm okay with Ferrand. It is in a very dense community with huge transit usage.
 
Hopkins123 said:
If the central Crosstown (19 kms) can be built in one shot, including a 12 kilometre tunnel, it's only fair and reasonable to assume the same could be done for the DRL. I wouldn't stop at Fairview Mall though, I'd go another 2 stops to Seneca College Newham Campus.
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And considering the need for the DRL is critical at this point, it would probably be a good idea to sell this to the public, so it can gain support.
 
Reecemartin said:
It's pretty unfortunate that the federal government who got elected on a platform of public transit haven't done more significant projects, what ever happened with the 850 million they gave the city?
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If I recall correctly, that was for SOGR not new projects. Somewhere - like at Steve Munro's blog is a very extensive list of where that had been allocated. That being said, has anyone seen "more" work than usual being done? I was wondering myself - when does this all unfold?
 
Reecemartin said:
It's pretty unfortunate that the federal government who got elected on a platform of public transit haven't done more significant projects, what ever happened with the 850 million they gave the city?
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It's not how one starts the race that matters, it how one finishes it:

http://business.financialpost.com/e...5-billion-infrastructure-bank?__lsa=8507-c79c

"In a fiscal update Tuesday, Finance Minister Bill Morneau unveiled $81.2 billion in new infrastructure spending over the coming 12 years, including $8.9 billion before the next scheduled election in 2019. The government will establish a Canada Infrastructure Bank in 2017 mandated to invest $35 billion over the coming decade."

The only question that remains is what percentage of the Infrastructure Fund is the City of Toronto entitled to. The GTA/Golden Horseshoe being one-sixth of the total population could and frankly should be looking at upwards of $20 billion in investment over the next decade. That's enough when coupled with the Province, City and private sector's investments for DRL Long, Bloor-Danforth to Sheppard East, completing the Crosstown from Malvern to the Airport and maybe even some "vanity" projects like Sheppard from Downsview to Scarborough Centre and Bloor-Danforth into Mississauga.

Rome was not built in a day and neither will rapid transit; but at least all three levels of government in power currently are open to and actively finding ways to fund these initiatives. At any rate they have another year before the soonest election to show us what they can do. Why not give them the benefit of the doubt for now, eh.
 
Reecemartin said:
The whole reason I hold this line of thinking is that I'm coming to believe more and more that both Trudeau and Wynne will be out in which case all these decade long schedules are worth 0.
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I don't. People want to see our Government investing in transit now more than ever. The only way the Provincial Conservatives last any more than a standard disciplinary term is with a solid transit investment. And you are seeing signs in the bi elections. The Feds are also showing signs of coming to the table but there is no indication from Federal Conservatives either way right now as its too early.

Im more optimistic than ever. But Toronto needs to speak with one voice. Continuing the internal bickering over the scraps on the table just helps the upper levels off the hook to keep kicking the can while we yell and scream over the lesser details of the big picture.
 
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mjl08 said:
I'm still scratching my head around the need for the Hakimi Lebovic
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I'm still scratching my head at the name Hakimi Lebovic. These are two separate streets, which afaik are named after two separate people. But they combined it into one, as if there was an individual with that name. No hyphen, no forward slash, no inclusion of the "Ave" part of those separate streets. They simply created a new name where there isn't one. I don't see the logic and it seems kinda weird. But I guess this is just a surface stop so it's not a big deal.
 
44 North said:
I'm still scratching my head at the name Hakimi Lebovic. These are two separate streets, which afaik are named after two separate people. But they combined it into one, as if there was an individual with that name. No hyphen, no forward slash, no inclusion of the "Ave" part of those separate streets. They simply created a new name where there isn't one. I don't see the logic and it seems kinda weird. But I guess this is just a surface stop so it's not a big deal.
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it could also be a different name for each side of the street for example the westbound stop will be Hakiem and the eastbound stop will be Lebovic
 
mjl08 said:
I'm still scratching my head around the need for the Hakimi Lebovic and Sunnybrook Park/Leslie stops.
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Ionview as well. Given that how the "priority signaling" and left turns at intersections are going to be worked out is a mystery, having so many stops in such short distances is quite risky for timing and reliability.

The Hakimi/Lebovic - Eglinton intersection is 490m away from the Pharmacy - Eglintion station and only 300m from the Warden - Eglinton. That's not rapid transit station spacing.
 
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