Toronto Eglinton Line 5 | ?m | ?s | Metrolinx | Arcadis

[KhalilHeron]

How about Landmark station? The station is the landmark

If the Eglinton East LRT ever gets built, I'm proposing they call the McCowan stop Landmark

 

[jer1961]

Not sure if this has been posted, but signage up at St George Station! POST SCRIPT - oops - didn't go back far enough, yup already up

 

[Bojaxs]

Not sure if this has been posted, but signage up at St George Station!
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Seeing this only makes me wish more that Line 5 was an actual subway.

 

[Racer_77]

They have removed all the fencing around the new Eglinton station entrance. Progress is progress.

I just saw a few TTC and Metrolinx people walking inside Eglinton (the existing Line 1 concourse). One had a clipboard, seemed like they were doing an inspection.

 

[Steve X]

Seeing this only makes me wish more that Line 5 was an actual subway.

This isn’t the first orange line on the TTC subway map. Remember the 604 Harbourfront LRT?

 

[hw621]

Seeing this only makes me wish more that Line 5 was an actual subway.

It is...in that stretch...

 

[mrgrieves]

It is...in that stretch...

light rail ≠ heavy rail

 

[11th]

Not sure if this has been posted, but signage up at St George Station! POST SCRIPT - oops - didn't go back far enough, yup already up

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I can't overlook the big misalignment with Finch/Finch West, Sheppard/Sheppard West and York Mills/Wilson on that diagram.

 

[felix123]

Seeing this only makes me wish more that Line 5 was an actual subway.

Yeah, it's misleading, especially Line 6 appearing as a subway when it's actually just three light rail trains in a trench coat.

Still happy to see the map up though, because it now seems like both lines are opening imminently.

 

[hw621]

Yeah, it's misleading, especially Line 6 appearing as a subway when it's actually just three light rail trains in a trench coat.

Still happy to see the map up though, because it now seems like both lines are opening imminently.

Are those "subway" maps or just "RT" (sort of) maps?

 

[T3G]

light rail ≠ heavy rail

How much does a subway car weigh, and how much does an LRV weigh?

The only passenger carrying heavy rail we have is GO and VIA.

 

[nfitz]

light rail ≠ heavy rail

subway ≠ heavy rail.

The Waterloo & City line in London isn't heavy rail. Trains are only 64-metre long, with narrow cars than Line 5. Would you say that an underground line isn't a subway?

Glasgow subway trains are only 40-metres long, and even narrower!

How much does a subway car weigh, and how much does an LRV weigh?

The only passenger carrying heavy rail we have is GO and VIA.

Weight has nothing to do with something being light or heavy rail! It's a measure of capacity, not mass!

 

[Steve X]

How much does a subway car weigh, and how much does an LRV weigh?

The only passenger carrying heavy rail we have is GO and VIA.

The Flexity outlook weights 48,200 kg for 28m. The TRs weight 34,250 kg for 23m. When you do the math, you'll find out that the Flexitys are indeed the heavier rail cars by length. Based on weight, Line 5 and 6 are the heavy rail lines, Lines 1, 2 and 4 would be light rail.

 

[mrgrieves]

How much does a subway car weigh, and how much does an LRV weigh?

The only passenger carrying heavy rail we have is GO and VIA.

let me get back to you. should I ask the homeless people sleeping on the trains to get off first?

 

[T3G]

Weight has nothing to do with something being light or heavy rail! It's a measure of capacity, not mass!

That seems like a pretty nebulous quantifier... the 504 King, traditionally "light rail", carries a hell of a lot more people than the Sheppard line or the Franklin Avenue shuttle in New York, which most traditionally define as "heavy rail".