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For the Finch line (and the others in the same table), you can't use their numbers to calculate cost/km. Check the notes for the table.

The numbers in the table are all in. They don't separate out the different costs. Check the asterisk notes.

For just construction costs: I found part of the VIVA extension at about $30 million/km in 2014 dollars - https://canada.constructconnect.com/dcn/news/others/2014/04/york-rapidlink-constructors-awarded-2605-million-vivanext-contract-dcn059977w-2 Construction cost for Finch was about $100...

For the Spadina Streetcar, I recently emailed the mayor and the local counselor Saxe about removing stops and closing intersections and.... got no response. I think there is enough public focus on the slow speed of our streetcars that now is the time to be able to remove some stops on Spadina...

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-united-states-needs-fewer-bus-stops/ TTC has done some stop 'controversial' consolidation in the past on the streetcar routes. Thought I'd post this article about stop removal for those who might be interested.

Cross-Posting with all the discussion of stop removals here: https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-united-states-needs-fewer-bus-stops/

I was only referring to the construction. I would guess it's also slower due to political interference (I have to have my stop!). The TTC would probably have preferred to rip everything out and run a bus.

TTC built fine on their own in the past. The most recent "debacles" of rebuilding St Clair to a ROW and building the YUS extension to Vaughan had political interference all over them. As a result of the political interference, the building of these projects were deemed a failure and we were told...

The Finch LRT construction contract was signed at about $100m/km (as reported on this site). The data in table 1 as per the asterisk looks like an all in cost.

Same, that's the only one I remember. I'm sure there would be some use other use cases on a lower ridership route but can't think of a good example.

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1DP8Du7CWL/ Bathurst streetcar looks great passing all those cars

Does this fit anywhere in Toronto?

This looked neat. I don't expect to ever see this in Canadian urban areas

So nice of the city to add those snow hills to do some jumps while biking 🤣

https://www.ttc.ca/accessibility/Easier-access-on-the-TTC/Riding-the-Subway How many stations are accessible now? 62 out of 70?