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There's lrt being built starting this year on Sheppard, Finch & Eglinton. I think if you search on google you might find some details about it.
I thought LRT doesn't currently exist in Toronto, that these new Transit City lines were something completely new and different from existing streetcars.
What I meant by orphan is that it's an additional technology. LRT and steetcars will always be in Toronto. Subways will always be in Toronto.
With Subways, LRT, bus, and commuter rail, you can always find a manufacturer because they are based on open standards.
Scarborough RT Extension
A redevelopment and extension of the Scarborough RT is planned to improve transit service to the north and east of the Scarborough City Centre. The current system will be converted to modern electrically-powered Light Rail Transit (LRT) to ensure reliability and improve customer service. The SRT will be integrated in the Transit City network making connections with the Eglinton Crosstown LRT, Sheppard Avenue East LRT and Scarborough Malvern LRT. The first phase of the project will extend the route in an exclusive right-of-way to connect with the Sheppard Avenue East LRT. Phase two will extend to the Malvern Town Centre. As it will initially operate as a terminal station, Sheppard Station will include a bus terminal northeast of the Chinese Cultural Centre to provide convenient connections to local bus routes
^^ Good to hear, I am glad they are leaning toward LRT on this route. I read the capacity will increase significantly if the current SRT is replaced with LRT vehicles. If my schedule allows it I am going to try to make it to the March 8/10 Open House at Jose Vanier Catholic Secondary School. I hope the phase 2 section of the route gets funding soon after the first phase to Sheppard. I live between Warden and Victoria Park Station but since moving here to Toronto I have read a report that showed the largest percentage of SRT riders come from that area so it is good that the TTC is looking like they are going to reward that area for already using transit more then most other neighborhoods outside of the downtown core. So I guess all those 130's buses that presently feed Scarborough Town Center will link up with the SRT(LRT) at the temporary Sheppard Station rather then Scarborough Town Center. This will clear our streets of quite a bit of bus traffic. I don't think there is enough room at Sheppard/Progress for a very large bus station unless they aquire a few properties there. I think the proposed Malvern Town Center would be able to accomodate a lot more bus routes then the Sheppard/Progress future station could.
The station at Centennial College will have to suit that purpose.
On the other hand this line is really intended to be a light metro using LRT vehicles, similar to the Eglinton line. It will run with two or three car LRV trains running at high speed on a partly or fully segregated right of way. Running it down Progress Avenue would just slow it down and make it unreliable.