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Hey, @DSCToronto is this one of the intersections where they were supposed to add a turning movement back in?
I ask, since I don't see any EB to SB track, and the TTC has a habit of forgetting to add turns back that it previously approved.
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It doesn't seem like the most useful add-on, but could be used for short turns.
I ask, since I don't see any EB to SB track, and the TTC has a habit of forgetting to add turns back that it previously approved.
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It doesn't seem like the most useful add-on, but could be used for short turns.
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No, no extra turns ever planned.. If one wants to go east on King and south on Church in a streetcar just go north on Church, west on Richmond, south on Victoria, east on Adelaide, south on Church. Far cheaper than a new curve, and street geometry might not allow it anyway.
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Here's the report with the curve wish list from 2010. Church and King is not on it. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that any of the recommended curves were installed when their respective intersections came up for reconstruction over the past decade.
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They probably need to revisit this list but work on King coming in 2026 or 2027 so I hope King and York will be remembered and ideally add track southbound on York between Adelaide and King and add ALL turns.
Voltz
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And yet they went and added a near useless curve at Kipling and Lakeshore.
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I don't understand why this stuff never gets built?
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In this case because there is no 'institutional memory" at TTC and they are constantly told to spend as little as they can without (serious ) 'accidents'. Adding curves costs money with no OBVIOUS saving.
Monarch Butterfly
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Been that way since June 26, 1995. The single-occupant motorists gets the priority for spending from the city and especially the province.
RapidTransit
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Bob Rae do anything? During the Rae days
nfitz
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Cut GO Transit. So that would increase driving a bit.
Kyle Campbell
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It was a more general problem than just Mike Harris. Investment in transit dried up pretty much coast to coast during 90s.
I think with the current political situation, austerity measures have been staved off a bit, but I feel like we're close to another drought again once balancing the books becomes the order of the day
Mind_the_gap
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Do passengers transferring from Line 1 to 4 still run up the stairs and along the platform at full speed at Sheppard-Yonge?
This always seemed like such a sadistic practice to me - making people wait for the closing door chime. Montréal does this better with their pre-departure chimes.
They switched back to beeping from the Parisian/Berlin/Stockholm doors closing horn sound.
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This always seemed like such a sadistic practice to me - making people wait for the closing door chime. Montréal does this better with their pre-departure chimes.
They switched back to beeping from the Parisian/Berlin/Stockholm doors closing horn sound.
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