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Trucks maybe - and perhaps the intercity type coaches. But if anything the typical TTC bus seems quieter and creates less vibrations breaking than the "New Look" buses did in the 1970s and 1980s - to me at least. If we are concerned about noise, we should eliminate the GO and VIA trains. I...

You should check the lettering. Looks like the lettering in the legend on the drawing is from an earlier draft, and no longer matches the map.

The one along the Lakeshore line (Kingston sub) from Union Station to about Pape. That used to be at grade with level crossings. That was a lot of fill.

Possibly - but the years of delay, and then the optics of new legislation that suspends human rights for ... bike lanes ... would be amusing. And even then you could challenge the restriction on pre-existing rights that existed before the 1980s constitution. The goal here doesn't have to be...

How many years did the Toronto Viaduct take after it was approved in 1913? And then there's the construction of Union Station for which the corporate arrangements were sorted out in 1906, and construction delayed until 1914 but didn't open until 1927 (despite having everything but the trainshed...

Not really - there's no curve, and would be hard to engineer without knocking off a corner of an office building - or making it very tight and slow. Though Ahuntsic station is easily replaced by Chabanel station on the St-Jerome line - they are both accessible from the same Costco parking lot...

Fortunately they announced service restoration 9 minutes after you posted this. But by then it was a complete mess. Almost as if they'd turned the whole system off and turned it back on again. :) Certainly seems like software. I wonder if it was an anxiety attack.

Though I think that building the 407 overpass without leaving room for 401 collectors was a long-term mistake.

It doesn't stop ferries running either. But I don't see why something the pedestrians don't see is relevant.

That starts to sound like the mess that was created by having the 403 join the 401 at the 410, rather than the original plan to have it merge in at the 401/427 interchange.

So again the question arises, where have they been covering 100-year old viaducts? They seem pretty common in most very large urban centres.

I don't think any of those photos show the railway tracks downtown. The only one with the CN tower in, is a photo of the elevated Toronto Viaduct, east of downtown. The viaduct was constructed in the 1920s (and being reconstructed now). I don't know how you build a park on top an embankment. At...

The pictures are all of the viaduct that was constructed in the 1920s, outside of downtown, where the existing rail line runs along side Line 3. If you want to discuss the non-elevated mainline west of Union, then it's nowhere near Line 3 and that thread is at...

So instead put it somewhere else, and cause people on the 407 and points south to dogleg on the supposedly bottlenecked 401?

No. It's an open RFP. Following an RFQ. And years of design. Bog standard, though I have no doubt the specs won't create an obstacle for Alstom - or another other Canadian railcar manufacturer.

Deck over a viaduct? Where has that happened? Rail Deck Park was right downtown, and not a viaduct.

Presumably they want to pay for it over a period of time. I'm sure they could expedite it if they want.

There's been a lot of information. There's an entire frequently updated detailed page on their website - https://www.ttc.ca/service-advisories/subway-service/Reduced-Speed-Zones

In the comments about Midland, I assumed significant densification. If the Barrie line were extended to a western Barrie station the question was merely where else could it go. It wasn't entirely serious - and in reality, I don't see anything obvious past another suburban Barrie station.

The full 260+ cars can't fit in in Russell/Leslie/Roncesvalles combined - so not only are they rehabbing this (after doing Roncesvalles), they are also building storage/maintenance at Hillcrest (Bathurst and Davenport).