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People can walk the extra 200m to the next closest stop. The faster and more frequent the train, the more likely they’ll do it

Ok, we cut out some of the closest stations in the eastern section, and construct flyovers/unders at the big intersections to grade separate the line for cheap(er). From east to west we should Remove the left turn from eastbound Eglinton@ ionview, have a protected left/u turns at Kennedy...

Just elevate the East. We have the ROW carved out already. Cut out some of the really closely spaced stations.

We did not save any money or time. Even if @JSF-1 and the planners are right, that the Ellington Crosstown will never exceed 5k passengers per direction per hour, we still could have saved money (either in construction costs or future improvement costs) by using high floor subway trains instead...

For the same tunnel width, a high floor subway is always going to have greater capacity than a low floor lrt. No standing space being taken up by wheel wells. So if you were going to construct expensive station boxes and grade separate half the line by digging subway-width tunnels, then you...

I finally found the twitter post that inspired this. I thought it was on this site, but apparently not, its from twitter Queen Street Subway I feel like this user might be on this site.

Oops we just derailed a train of hazardous goods inside a city Our bad wont happen again

Why not convert the Sheppard subway for LRT vehicles and then connect the Sheppard subway to the Finch LRT. That way , we have a single crosstown LRT in the north.

The Kingston - Queensway Line is really long and it might make sense to break it in half like the 504 Also why have it miss Scarborough GO and Dixie GO?

Can't be that hard to put a little precast concrete parking curb on the outside of the dotted line and paint a "NO CARS" sign on the roadway. Theres just no political will to making the streetcars run faster

If we're going to do this, we might as well segregate all the e-w streetcar routes from private traffic, and make the area between the YU subway car-free. We could have multiple branch lines for both the Bay Street and King Street Tunnels. That way the streetcars become full fledged LRT lines...

Line 1 and Line 2 are servicing the CBD of the city, in an incredibly dense area, some of the highest density neighborhoods in the country both by population and jobs. The eastern portion of the line is servicing suburban sprawl power centers and parking lots (yes this will become condos...

"World's most expensive non fully-separated """"rapid"""" transit line"

Run the line from Science Center to Mt Dennis now and rebuild the eastern section for 3 more years. It couldn't possibly take that long. Look at how quickly the davenport grade separation on the Barrie line is coming together.

Just elevate the eastern section. We have the right of way set up already and the utilities have already been relocated.

But that would mean deprioritizing cars and Toronto is such a unique city that transit priority would never work here

Great, we deliberately broke the connection with the Ontario Line because we decided to create a 15 billion dollar streetcar and placed a station at Sunnybrook with less ridership than Bessarion

I mean duh of course it’s a shakedown. Hey nice railroad you’ve got here, would be a shame if someone disrupted the operations of this here railway unexpectedly whilst doing “environmental assessments” But all this can go away if you helped out our community by giving us a big wad of cash. If...

All the problems of space travel with none of the space tolerances.

When they invent a cure for carbrain