It's true that above ground construction costs much less, but, there is significantly more complexity with the frequent grade changes. I'm not convinced that the whole line can be had for 10 B, which in reality is only 3-4 B more than RLS.
I've been reading a lot of your posts for a while. I'm going to respond to them now because you have been using a lot of assumptions to justify the decision-making of the OL. What I'm seeing here is a lack of understanding for civil engineering work and transportation planning. The initial...
Oh yeah! Granite Setts would do excellent in discouraging traffic, it's quite uncomfortable.
They could also do with a low curb with cutouts for the tracks.
I agree with this post wholeheartedly. There is a significant amount of politicization of planning in North America and transportation infrastructure in Toronto is a good example of that.
The fact that the Province has no costing details except probably less than a Class 5 estimate and...
Well, yes, that's a point too... aside from their clear desire to cancel all these projects by unrealistically ballooning the costs and making them more 'fancy'
The two letters that have been posted contract quite severely in 'who is to blame' so to speak.
Did anyone notice in the recently posted MTO by WKLis, they made a comment about making the relief line not 'beholden to the technologically-outdated Line 2' while in two points above, they...
Just a general question about the use of a Right-Turn Green Arrow. I was wondering if it has different meanings depending on the municipality? I was in Windsor over the summer and I noticed that they used them to represent the movements that cars were allowed to travel, similar to some ideas...