Toronto Eglinton Line 5 Crosstown West Extension | ?m | ?s | Metrolinx

Best to locate the radiant heating in the floor of the shelter. The heat will heat your feet and the air. The heated air then rises up.

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From link.
 
Heated shelters is part of the reason that costs balloon. At the terminals or where there will be a bus terminal, or at an interchange station, it makes sense. On the rest of the line, it is just adding unnecessary costs.
 
Meanwhile, they'll thinking about a New York City subway to JFK Airport...

Long-awaited Rockaway Beach Branch study reveals subway, LIRR options — and a high price tag

See link.

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Re-activating the defunct Rockaway Beach Branch line could cost up to $8 billion dollars and a one-seat ride to JFK Airport using the once-and-perhaps-future LIRR right of way could run to nearly $20 billion, according to a long-awaited report the MTA released last month. If the MTA’s numbers are to be believed, this report may serve not as a rallying cry for advocates to push for rail reactivation but rather an indication that the MTA’s inability to manage costs will back-burner any transit use for this ROW for years to come. Without an obvious political champion pushing this project, one could be forgiven for believing the inflated costs to be almost intentional...
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Kyle Campbell said:
Nobody is as capable of spending more for less than NYC. I do think though that Toronto seems to be going that way too, costs to build things in Toronto seem way higher than elsewhere in Canada.
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The Millennium line extension in Vancouver is surprisingly barebones with only one entrance even at Broadway-City Hall. Cheap has a cost.
 
asher__jo said:
The Millennium line extension in Vancouver is surprisingly barebones with only one entrance even at Broadway-City Hall. Cheap has a cost.
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Maybe cheap is the way to go. You can always add more entrances and elevators and other things years later.
 
asher__jo said:
The Millennium line extension in Vancouver is surprisingly barebones with only one entrance even at Broadway-City Hall. Cheap has a cost.
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While I agree, 8 billion to reactivate an existing above ground 8km right of way, even you have to redo the track and stations is excessive.
 
This article was posted in the Ontario Line thread but there's a reference to the Eg W LRT:

"The Eglinton West extension is critical to servicing the Toronto airport employment zone, Verster said, but that project too has its problems given that it is very complicated to get the final two “dots” (stations) in the right place approaching the airport."

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Cory, Verster provide insights on huge GTA projects - constructconnect.com - Daily Commercial News

The next month will be critical in planning and procuring Toronto’s new Ontario Line as proponents hustle to undertake a market sounding of industry stakeholders ahead of a rapidly approaching deadline for issuance of an RFQ for the project. Infrastructu
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