drum118
Superstar
Midtown is Crosstown line before the Eglinton Crosstown surface. Regardless, what the answer??
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Kraylin
Active Member
If we had even a quarter of the fantasy lines the government spend millions studying we would have incredible transit. Alas, all we have is countless studies, failed starts, and political pandering. Feel like home 
robmausser
Senior Member
You misunderstand. But its ok. Not everyone is meant to understand.
I explained myself well enough twice, Im not going to waste time explaining further.
Monarch Butterfly
Superstar
Allandale25
Senior Member
MrGoose
Active Member
Huh, I guess there’s probably a plan in place.
I wonder what course of action they’re going to take.
Deadpool X
Senior Member
That will be a slower route and with more transfer. Changing at Union and then taking Yonge line will be faster and more convenience. Yonge line is not even crowded in that direction in mornings while Crosstown will more crowded.
drum118
Superstar
Did some shooting in the east end for the first time in months, with some major changes to very little.
Don Mills and Eglinton intersection should be back to normal by year end depending on traffic light for final setting. The west side is pave and waiting striping. The east side is seeing the last 2 westbound lanes pour that will be pave over along with the pour lanes at Don Mills. Once they pave the Don Mills northbound lanes on both side of the intersection as well the new Eglinton lanes, they can fix the southbound lanes including the Eglinton intersection.
New temporary traffic lights being install where TTC buses turn on to Eglinton by Kennedy Station to allow Eglinton Lanes to move back to where they should be. The north side of Eglinton at Kennedy Rd partly moved back to where it used to be along with sidewalks and driveway on the west side.
East of Sinnott Rd to the west side of Victoria Park has the overhead system in place, including the 3 areas where trains can transfer one track to another. From the west side of the DVP to just before Laird Dr, overhead in place.
Neither portal has track or overhead in place. West side of Victoria Park to the west side of DVP have no overhead support brackets on the columns.
About 50% of the tracks in place and about 40% of the stations are built. Some stations have glass handrail is various locations on the platform.
I will leave info for some stations in the stations threads.
Photos to follow.
Don Mills and Eglinton intersection should be back to normal by year end depending on traffic light for final setting. The west side is pave and waiting striping. The east side is seeing the last 2 westbound lanes pour that will be pave over along with the pour lanes at Don Mills. Once they pave the Don Mills northbound lanes on both side of the intersection as well the new Eglinton lanes, they can fix the southbound lanes including the Eglinton intersection.
New temporary traffic lights being install where TTC buses turn on to Eglinton by Kennedy Station to allow Eglinton Lanes to move back to where they should be. The north side of Eglinton at Kennedy Rd partly moved back to where it used to be along with sidewalks and driveway on the west side.
East of Sinnott Rd to the west side of Victoria Park has the overhead system in place, including the 3 areas where trains can transfer one track to another. From the west side of the DVP to just before Laird Dr, overhead in place.
Neither portal has track or overhead in place. West side of Victoria Park to the west side of DVP have no overhead support brackets on the columns.
About 50% of the tracks in place and about 40% of the stations are built. Some stations have glass handrail is various locations on the platform.
I will leave info for some stations in the stations threads.
Photos to follow.
Allandale25
Senior Member
superelevation
Active Member
superelevation
Active Member
All the wasted space makes me regret we didn't go with 7 segment trains . . . or just fully grade separate it and do a metro
hw621
Senior Member
We are just too good at half-assing things...
cplchanb
Senior Member
wasnt 7 segment trains offered after they purchased this? a considerable premium to make changes like this aftter all the budgetting has been completed
jordanmkasla2009
Active Member
what you lose in "wasted space" you gain in operational flexibility. There's very little need to run a 3 car train at 11 PM most of the time.
ARG1
Senior Member
True, but at the same time there isn't much of a cost to it either. Maybe the cost of maintenance is higher if you run full length trains, but the most expensive part of running trains is operation costs, and the costs of having a driver, and in that case whether you run 3 car trains or a single car doesn't matter too much. If we have a fully automated metro like what Vancouver has, then yes there is incentive. Since there is no operator, it costs as much to have a 2 car train run every 6 minutes as it does a 1 car train every 3 minutes. This isn't the case for what's being built on Eglinton.