Finch West Line 6 LRT

[Mies]

How long is this away from shovels in the ground? I understand that the EA is complete, but does it have to be modified now that the line is to run west from the Spadina extension?

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

No idea re: timeline, but the original (funded) plan was to have it start from Finch West anyways - the portion between Spadina and Yonge line was to be built in a later phase.

AoD

 

[W. K. Lis]

The Finch West Station designs may have to go back to the original designs. The original had an underground terminal for the Finch West LRT, the current design had to add more bus bays to accommodate the buses.

What is the present status of the construction at Finch West Station, and can they go back?

 

[nfitz]

The Finch West Station designs may have to go back to the original designs. The original had an underground terminal for the Finch West LRT, the current design had to add more bus bays to accommodate the buses.

What is the present status of the construction at Finch West Station, and can they go back?

The subway will open in 2015, Finch West wasn't supposed to start construction until 2015, and wouldn't open until 2019. So they'd have to run the buses for at least 4 year. The original terminal design would have dated from the earlier Metrolinx proposal to have the LRT open in 2015, but that wasn't the plan that Metrolinx/Council approved in 2010.

 

[SGHA504]

Would the now back-to-life (I think??) Finch West LRT meet up with a revised TTC 'Downsview' subway station/new GO Transit Downsview station between Dufferin and Keele?

 

[voxpopulicosmicum]

^See above posts for the discussion of "Finch West Station" on the Spadina line, which will be the eastern terminus of the Finch West LRT. Sheppard West Station at the north end of Downsview Park (the next stop south on the Spadina line) will be an integrated GO/Subway station.

 

[jje1000]

The fight has now begun! Granted, Mammolini sits on the board has has enormous influence, but this is evidence of the beginnings of a post-vote organized resistance.

Rob Ford may have been defeated on council, but he'll try to spread misinformation and turn the citizens against the plan- and this will become a difficult uphill slog if citizen concerns aren't nipped in the bud.

BIA vows to fight Finch Ave. LRT

The Emery Village BIA is trying to slam the brakes on light rail coming to Finch Ave.

Board members of the largest business improvement area in Canada agreed Friday to start collecting signatures from local businesses and residents to urge Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty to stop the Finch LRT.

City council voted Wednesday to scrap Mayor Rob Ford’s transit plan and revive part of the Transit City plan that includes a light rail line on Finch Ave.

Ford has vowed to keep fighting for subways and has urged residents to demand the province stick with his plan.

Local Councillor Giorgio Mammoliti tried unsuccessfully to block the LRT in favour of looking at a Finch subway.

“We want subways in our neighbourhood and we want to be able to connect more with the city,” Emery Village BIA chairman Lorraine Chabot-Vecera said Friday.

“We just want to send a message to the MPPs so that they know that this isn’t what the community wants. It is not just about downtown, it is about the full city of Toronto cooperating and working together on this.”

Chabot-Vecera predicted an LRT on Finch would not be acceptable.

“We want subways, bury it underground, leave the trucks be and hopefully more people will be more encouraged to take the subways to and from work.”

Mammoliti said people deserve a say in transit coming into their community.

“The (council) vote was too close and McGuinty needs to listen to the people and not the downtown councillors,” Mammoliti said.

Ford refused to answer questions during a photo-op with Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson on Friday.

Councillor Michael Thompson said it isn’t surprising Ford has vowed to fight for subways given the fact it was his campaign promise.

“He honestly and earnestly believes that it is the right thing to do,” Thompson said. “Every core of his soul is committed to that.”

Thompson said the province made it “very clear” that it will support council’s decision.

http://www.torontosun.com/2012/02/10/bia-vows-to-fight-finch-ave-lrt

 

[MetroMan]

Wow... so Finch is fighting against improving transit on Finch? This is amazing. Sure, if you don't want the LRT, send the money downtown then. We want a Waterfront LRT. Fordites are complaining that downtown has all the subways and downtown councillors are dominating the LRT vote.... but downtown is getting NOTHING in Transit City. NOTHING. Not a single line or transit improvement is coming to downtown from the $8.4B the Province is giving Toronto. No new transit was built downtown in the last 60 years. In fact, most of downtown is not served by subway. Subway lines have been growing into the outer city despite the overwhelming demand for more subways downtown.

I seriously cannot wait to return City Hall to sanity because the years we're living in is some sort of bizarro world where nobody makes sense and citizens follow along with it and defend it.

 

[UD2]

If the Emery Village BIA doesn't want their LRT. Then they need to understand that they'll be taking the bus for the next thirty years. Immature kids they are.

 

[W. K. Lis]

Wow... so Finch is fighting against improving transit on Finch? This is amazing. Sure, if you don't want the LRT, send the money downtown then. We want a Waterfront LRT. Fordites are complaining that downtown has all the subways and downtown councillors are dominating the LRT vote.... but downtown is getting NOTHING in Transit City. NOTHING. Not a single line or transit improvement is coming to downtown from the $8.4B the Province is giving Toronto. No new transit was built downtown in the last 60 years. In fact, most of downtown is not served by subway. Subway lines have been growing into the outer city despite the overwhelming demand for more subways downtown.

I seriously cannot wait to return City Hall to sanity because the years we're living in is some sort of bizarro world where nobody makes sense and citizens follow along with it and defend it.

The old city of Toronto has had NO Subway construction since 1978. The only construction since then (up to now) has been in the "suburbs". With the Eglinton Crosstown construction to start, it would be the first since then of any underground electric railway construction within the old borders. The only public transit construction within the old city has been streetcar right-of-ways, not light rapid transit lines which Finch West would be getting.

 

[Juan_Lennon416]

If the Emery Village BIA doesn't want their LRT. Then they need to understand that they'll be taking the bus for the next thirty years. Immature kids they are.

Many already know that but do not care. Also, it does not help when articles surface about how trucks have to mount on the sidewalk in order to turn onto St Clair Avenue West. We need to clearly show Emery Village BIA that the Finch West LRT can work

 

[ladyscraper]

Clearly the people that drive are telling the people that actually have to take the bus that they don't deserve better transit and are trying to convince them that it is for their own good. It's sad that they are telling people they deserve subways but if they don't take the LRT, they will get nothing.

 

[jje1000]

This perfectly illustrates the problem that those ignorant of the issue pose. A mistruth may seem minor at first, but unless proponents of Transit City push forward and convince people of LRT's virtues, those mistruths will spread like a weed.

 

[ssiguy2]

Where the hell is Emery Village?
Also, just because people don't want LRT doesn't mean they don't want improved transit. Limited stop articulated POP buses like Vancouver's BLine are fast, higher capacity, don't inhibit traffic flow, and can be built in a few months not several years and are easily expandable.

 

[Paleo]

Where the hell is Emery Village?
Also, just because people don't want LRT doesn't mean they don't want improved transit. Limited stop articulated POP buses like Vancouver's BLine are fast, higher capacity, don't inhibit traffic flow, and can be built in a few months not several years and are easily expandable.

...and easily taken away.