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Yes - rapid transit needs many doors! As mentioned there are lots, the hot thing these days is blended bi level and single level.

Alstom has lots of bilevel stock, not sure what you're talking about

This is just a concept, its still subject to substantial change at any give location. At least if platforms are on all tracks that should be taken as a sign of reasonable thinking that a major hub should have all trains stop

The Major transit projects delivered by SNC have actually been pretty consistently on time (even early) e.g. Canada Line, Calgary West LRT, and Ottawa

I think the reasonable question to ask is, how far do other lines go from the city center? In London a lot go fairly far north and west. At the same time, a subway extension in a rail corridor for low cost could have a pretty high cost benefit compared to even the Richmond Hill Line getting...

No switches at all, wouldn't take it seriously

Any company can implement gap fillers

It has (like all of SkyTrain) sensors to detect if someone enters the track area Not necessarily, different trains suit different services They are incentivized to have as high ridership as possible iirc, building a network is how to do that. The cost of the extension to the train station...

A bad station design to deal with issues from your unreliable system seems very appropriate for Toronto

Ideally this would be super cheap, it's literally just two stops and a short amount of track - how much was the Cherry Streetcar spur?

I'm somewhat skeptical, there are a lot of things the TTC doesn't do despite endless talk of L1's capacity woes. Other cities would be using the full platforms and adding more entrances and circulation space to congested stations. (Not our 1B BY plan)

1) Some trips are probably already being made by L2 2) Some people who were driving will switch 3) Those that were taken the Eglinton bus and some other EW buses will switch 4) Subway level service attracts new riders too Surface LRT's rarely operate better than a 5 minute headway and 60m...

The timelines have been pretty clear

If only faster transit didn't attract new riders and cities never changed! Once a much faster option to get across Eglinton exists - effectively a subway west of Laird - a lot more people are going to start taking ew trips on Eglinton that will be a lot easier than when it was just buses...

I doubt Mt. Dennis will actually have enough room, and the fact that Eglinton will struggle with frequency and capacity means having some Jane deadheads would be unpopular. That said, connecting an elevated line and a surface line shouldn't be very hard

Metrolinx really hasn't put anything out about train config, I share most peoples sentiments - low floor isn't optimal, but we have long trains so it's not the end of the world, if capacity becomes an issue that would be a nice problem to have.

And also many of the issues of batteries, should be kept to an absolute minimum

If demand is that high, I am not sure why we are just building LRT, Vancouver certainly isn't on Broadway!

I mean there is literally that vacant lot across from the TTC terminal . . . ., no reason it couldn't be a terminal with a tower on top

Finch West is still VERY expensive