Bordercollie
Senior Member
He needs a seat first. It also says he MAY run
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Finch West Line 6 LRT
- Thread starter Monarch Butterfly
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txlseries4
Active Member
Ya, that's obviously how federal elections work lol. Feel like I'm going crazy trying to parse your comments. You replied to "chow vs smart track" and said there's a rumour John Tory Jr might run next election -- as in the city election. But the only rumour out there published is about him running federally. Is there also a rumour that he'd run for mayor? Source?He needs a seat first. It also says he MAY run
Midtown Urbanist
Superstar
If only we could have had a south side alignment...What's rough about Sunnybrook Park is that it introduced an at-grade intersection between Laird and Don Mills. Metrolinx had proposed to bypass the intersection south of Eglinton and maintain fully grade separated services to Don Mills by deleting the stop, allowing the underground frequencies and service reliability to extend to what is one of the most important stations on the line and the future transfer point to the Ontario Line.
Instead that service was cut back to Laird to maintain a transit stop on a low-ridership, low-priority location with little in the way of density or destinations in walking distance. It's like 2 condo complexes, a park, and a car dealership.
The biggest offender on Eglinton is Hakimi Lebovic and needs to get deleted.
Obsidian
Active Member
If it was pitched at current speeds, 15 to 30 minutes slower than the buses it replace, it would have never been approved as a transit project anywhere.Listening to the City Hall session - someone made a great point. That when the LRT was pitched it was supposed to be 33-34 minutes and their decision was based on that estimation. In retrospect, would the city have bought into the Finch LRT at current speed? Not sure...
I got to say that it's kind of rich that some are complaining about the number of stops slowing down the line when they fought to have the Sunnybrook stop added on line 5
even 33 minutes is the same speed as the bus.
Obsidian
Active Member
Well Line 5 is their first line, i would say the learning are already seen on the Ontario Line construction.No idea, and probably half the people on the UrbanToronto forum.
I said the same thing too. It's clear that Line 5 really was a crapshoot. I keep crossing my fingers and hoping that ML would learn from the defects of other lines, but it's clear that even those defects or operating procedures are of no use.
namelly building the stations first since they take the longest time than after the TBM have gone through like on Line 5.
This change alone will save 2 years of construction
Obsidian
Active Member
why the hell are they doing a study???4 months to study speeding up the line. Good lord!
It could be late into 2026 before we see this line get sped up. Will they maintain the shuttle buses until then?
Just make the change then study it.
Maybe the city should have used all that time they were bitching at Metrolinx about an opening date they should have been studying TSP so that it would be implemented while test started.
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urbanclient
Active Member
Metrolinx: Hey everyone, let's pay $2.5 billion along with another $1 billion for maintenance over 30 years, so we can get a glorified bus that rides the rails. That's right! Slower than the 36 bus. Of course! We'll build a massive 2000 square foot two storey ceiling station entrance at Finch West; Also, we'll build an overly long descent into a new concourse that is inexplicably 2 stories below the Line 6 platform level, forcing us to build another flight of escalators up instead of building the concourse at the same level. At Metrolinx, we love burning money.If it was pitched at current speeds, 15 to 30 minutes slower than the buses it replace, it would have never been approved as a transit project anywhere.
The city council: Ok as long as we don't pay for any of it.
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hw621
Senior Member
And why study now? Shouldn't this be done at the design phase?why the hell are they doing a study???
Just make the change then study it.
Maybe the city should have used all that time they were bitching at Metrolinx about an opening date they should have been studying TSP so that it would be implemented while test started.
Obsidian
Active Member
I am glad city officials are the one taking much of the heat for this mess and not metrolinx.
They have had all this time to speed up rail transport in the city ie streetcars and have refused to. so it nice to seem them fumbling over themselves now that the public is fully aware of what they have not been doing for rail transport in the city. A similar opening of the Eglinton line should bring a whole bunch of more criticism on them.
They have had all this time to speed up rail transport in the city ie streetcars and have refused to. so it nice to seem them fumbling over themselves now that the public is fully aware of what they have not been doing for rail transport in the city. A similar opening of the Eglinton line should bring a whole bunch of more criticism on them.