Hipster Duck
Senior Member
Here's a thought:
Let's say we combined the Milton, Lakeshore and Georgetown corridors so they ran through Union station on to Stouffville (say, Milton East), Richmond Hill (say the continuation of the Georgetown corridor) as well as Lakeshore East. Now let's say we electrified these lines and ran regional rail EMUs every 20 minutes on each line. That would mean that between Strachan and Cherry St. we would have service every 6 minutes, and between the Junction and Scarborough GO we would have service every 10 minutes. During rush hour, you could have headways of 10/5/3 minutes - not too shabby. Enhance Main and Dundas West subway stations to become major rail transfer points and we've effectively killed 2 birds with one stone: DRL and real regional rail. What could the cost of all this be? Probably less than a tunneled full DRL, and you have real regional connectivity.
Let's say we combined the Milton, Lakeshore and Georgetown corridors so they ran through Union station on to Stouffville (say, Milton East), Richmond Hill (say the continuation of the Georgetown corridor) as well as Lakeshore East. Now let's say we electrified these lines and ran regional rail EMUs every 20 minutes on each line. That would mean that between Strachan and Cherry St. we would have service every 6 minutes, and between the Junction and Scarborough GO we would have service every 10 minutes. During rush hour, you could have headways of 10/5/3 minutes - not too shabby. Enhance Main and Dundas West subway stations to become major rail transfer points and we've effectively killed 2 birds with one stone: DRL and real regional rail. What could the cost of all this be? Probably less than a tunneled full DRL, and you have real regional connectivity.
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