Allandale25
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Alright, mods, like it or not, time to rename this thread
Not until 2024
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Not until 2024
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sixrings
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So we have two years to find some reason to “cancel” hazel. The name not the line.Not until 2024
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In which I explain why I'll SkyDome the Hurontario LRT as long as I live:
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It’ll always be the Hurontario Line to me
The “Hazel McCallion Line” might be just the first of many politically-motivated renamings of publicly-funded transit facilities.
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mind_the_gap
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Well, now that this line is being named after Hazel, can we PLEASE colour the trains hazel instead of the bland Metrolinx black/white/gray! It just somehow looks worse on the Citadis cars than the Flexities.
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Steve X
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She never really planned transit in Mississauga till the last decade of her term. The entire city is meant to be driven around in a car with wide high speed roads and multi lane left turn lanes. It was just another clone of a typical North American city.
Perhaps if Square One was to become a core, early on they could have planned a rail extension from the Milton Line before things were built up. Additionally they could have reserved space for transit along Dundas or Burnhamthorpe.
Perhaps if Square One was to become a core, early on they could have planned a rail extension from the Milton Line before things were built up. Additionally they could have reserved space for transit along Dundas or Burnhamthorpe.
drum118
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They did reserved land along the north side of Burnhamthorpe for transit east of Hurontario.
After years of beating the heads of council and Hazel, they decided transit was the way to go, but sadly it has fallen way short. Model split in 2001 was 11% for transit and only 15% today compare where it should at 30%.
There was a Downtown 2021 plan, but never got off the ground because of the mall. Even the current Land use for the mall area falls short.
You do realize a branch line has to start at Dundas east of Cooksville Station that will not be service by the branch line and be 100% underground. What the cost to do it?? If you going to do this, you continue the line west and reconnect to the main line north of the 403. Would offer better service from the west to the Mall and other areas that can't be done with transit.
A Tram-Train is far cheaper to do if CP allows it and would connect to the Hurontario LRT line with a grade ramp.
Transportfan
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"Hazel McCallion" or "Highway 10", the name Hurontario just screams to be substituted!
Seriously though, this is just another thing that will steal even more from what little recognition the street name already has. Another thing is that the line will run into Brampton as well, making the name less appropriate.
And lastly, isn't there enough named after Hazel already? And come to think of it, being mayor of a prosperous suburban municipality isn't exactly a tough job, unlike the case in Toronto with all its social issues. She's being given much accolades but didn't really accomplish much of note.
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Transportfan
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There's certainly a lot wrong with "10 LRT".
Admiral Beez
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When I arrived in Canada at aged 5 in 1976 we bought a house at Derry Road and Winston Churchill. I can attest as a young lad growing up in what was called Meadowvale that Hazel’s Mississauga Transit buses were very useful, with an extensive nerwork that wound through the subdivisions. My mother never drove and we’d take the bus everywhere, to Square One, to the movies, etc. They had short buses as well, which I found neat.
There was even a telephone number on the stop so you’d check (from home) when the bus was scheduled. Until I moved to Toronto in 1988 we only got around Mississauga on the bus or bicycle.
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afransen
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I wonder if this is hedging pending the outcome of the election.
Mercury
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Like what?
I don't want to make the bus driver tap the sign, but I spent a portion of my 90s childhood in Brampton and everyone knew that "Main Street", "Highway 10", and "Hurontario Street" were three names for that one road. It makes perfect sense to call the LRT Line 10, or some variation on that.
drum118
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drum118
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Pier forming underway to support the elevated line over Rathburn and not sure what taking place by the eastbound off ramp for the 403.
Rathburn is a mess, especially for transit.
Pier forming underway to support the elevated line over Rathburn and not sure what taking place by the eastbound off ramp for the 403.
Rathburn is a mess, especially for transit.
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rhys17
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Slightly off topic: what is going on with the former Playdium? I recall it shutdown like 2 years ago, and the building was blue. It is now red.
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