narduch
Senior Member
Planning in Ontario is slow on purpose, so that the government can delay when it needs to provide the actually money for projects.
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hw621
Senior Member
Pardon my ignorance, how does the Crosstown cross the Don Valley， on a bridge? Is there any picture or rendering of it?
coopEng
Active Member
Both east and west legs in the middle of Eglinton on the existing roadway/bridge.
zmonkey
New Member
The airport does 1.6 Million people, 600,000 people less than Billy Bishop in Toronto. It would be nice to have it going to the airport, right now there is no need.
Put the money into getting people from where they live to work and school today.
robmausser
Senior Member
Should have been 7 segment for Crosstown too.
Streety McCarface
Senior Member
Crosstown should have been a subway between Eglinton West and Kennedy. 7 segment cars for Spadina, St Clair, and King.
hw621
Senior Member
$$$$$$$
Streety McCarface
Senior Member
It wouldn't have cost that much more, the majority of the line as it is, is underground.
innsertnamehere
Superstar
It cost about $3 billion more. That was the ford era plan.
coopEng
Active Member
Exactly. Majority by technical terms only - about 13km underground, 7km at grade.
W. K. Lis
Superstar
People actually do WORK at the airport AND the surrounding area. It is considered an employment area.
raptor
Senior Member
Just a reminder that this is taking place this weekend, if anyone can take pics/videos:
75-Hour Weekend Work for GO Transit Improvements at Kennedy Station
75-Hour Weekend Work for GO Transit Improvements at Kennedy Station
hw621
Senior Member
I thought they were going to build the new platform this weekend too...
W. K. Lis
Superstar
This is a drawing of the Mt. Pleasant station, from link.
Shows it to be a center platform. Assuming that the rest of the below-grade or above-grade stations will be center platforms as well. There would be a cost savings in reducing the number of escalators and elevators needed. However, from experience, we have seen several times where the current (subway) stations having elevators (and escalators) out-of-service. The question I have, will there be duplicate facilities, in case of maintenance or other problems with the elevators (and escalators)?
Shouldn't be much of a problem with the at-grade stops. No elevators or escalators needed.
Shows it to be a center platform. Assuming that the rest of the below-grade or above-grade stations will be center platforms as well. There would be a cost savings in reducing the number of escalators and elevators needed. However, from experience, we have seen several times where the current (subway) stations having elevators (and escalators) out-of-service. The question I have, will there be duplicate facilities, in case of maintenance or other problems with the elevators (and escalators)?
Shouldn't be much of a problem with the at-grade stops. No elevators or escalators needed.
drum118
Superstar
You kidding, TTC putting in more than one elevator per-platform?? Only look as far as the Spadina Extension to see no 2nd elevator, let all the elevators being install now or the last 10 year.
GO/Metrolinx only started to add 2 elevators to some station, but mostly are single and out of service every few days or weeks. Some have ramps outside the station leading to the tunnel, but only one elevator to the platform. They just rebuilt Burlington station that has 2 elevators in the station that has 2 tunnels, but only one elevator to the platform.
Can see the lawsuits come 2026 for these one elevators per platform.
Centre platforms are the way to go and need to be wider than existing ones.