Adjei
Senior Member
Ya I was thinking that.
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Finch West Line 6 LRT
- Thread starter W. K. Lis
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Steve X
Senior Member
It looks like a storage track. There's no unloading platform for it.
Wrench
New Member
Wow that's it !
Take a look @ the new York University station , Apples & Oranges
Just goes to show that you should try harder in school , get great marks or you will end up getting off @ a station like this on a cold day on Hwy 27 & have a nice long walk to Humber C.
innsertnamehere
Superstar
humber is a much smaller school UTSC will probably have similarly "crappy" stations.
Hopkins123
Senior Member
UTSC needs a "subway champion" to get a grade separated station right through the middle of the campus grounds like what York University's getting. Isn't UTSC in Mitzie Hunter's riding?
dowlingm
Senior Member
The Ontario finance minister when TYSSE was approved is now Chancellor of York U.
Canadian Chocho
Active Member
It really, really doesn't. The mock plan you drew up in the other thread would rip up the wooded area along the creek, would have to tunnel very deep seeing as the H-wing, S-Wing, Bladen-Wing, and ARC are all connected underground, and the way the University is planning on growing the "middle" of campus is likely going to be north of Ellesmere (PanAm Aquatic Centre is already on the northern extreme).
Hopkins123
Senior Member
I'll post it again here for reference:
As you can see, there'd already be a second station in the heart of the "new" campus/Centennial College north of Ellesmere; that's 200 metres away from the existing Morningside Campus at the corner of Morningside and Ellesmere. It's not ripping up anything that can't be re-planted (an elevated guideway is only a few metres across in width). It wouldn't be super-deep or challenging to build either since the campus is situated on top of a hill, so the elevated guideway can naturally cut in at the base of Bladen Wing, 2 levels down from ground level. But furthermore, we'd honestly sacrifice the convenience of having a station within easy walking distance of the entire campus, as you've noted, (H-Wing, S-Wing, Bladen-Wing, ARC, library, student centre, student residences, existing bus terminal) for the sake of not chopping down some trees?
So we can go with the cheaper, unsustainable three-station alignment that's less convenient for the 13,000 UTSC students OR we can ask more of our governments to build things right in the first place and be done with it.
As you can see, there'd already be a second station in the heart of the "new" campus/Centennial College north of Ellesmere; that's 200 metres away from the existing Morningside Campus at the corner of Morningside and Ellesmere. It's not ripping up anything that can't be re-planted (an elevated guideway is only a few metres across in width). It wouldn't be super-deep or challenging to build either since the campus is situated on top of a hill, so the elevated guideway can naturally cut in at the base of Bladen Wing, 2 levels down from ground level. But furthermore, we'd honestly sacrifice the convenience of having a station within easy walking distance of the entire campus, as you've noted, (H-Wing, S-Wing, Bladen-Wing, ARC, library, student centre, student residences, existing bus terminal) for the sake of not chopping down some trees?
So we can go with the cheaper, unsustainable three-station alignment that's less convenient for the 13,000 UTSC students OR we can ask more of our governments to build things right in the first place and be done with it.
W. K. Lis
Superstar
There is to be an expansion of the Humber College North Campus, to make it more closer to the Humber College stop.
nfitz
Superstar
That would make sense, though the expansion documents from a couple of years ago on the website had the expansion more towards the north. Has there been something released?
nfitz
Superstar
Infrastructure Ontario announced today that they'd issued the RFP to teams.
We are starting to get close to the point of no return!
- Humber Valley Transit Partners (SNC-Lavalin/Graham)
- Mosaic Transit Group (ACS/Aecon/CRH-Dufferin)
- FACT Partners (EllisDon/Bechtel)
We are starting to get close to the point of no return!
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Midtown Urbanist
Superstar
Finch West will be safe for the elections then.
salsa
Senior Member
Somewhere, Mammoliti has fainted.
TheTigerMaster
Superstar
Today is a glorious day.
Palma
Senior Member
will the construction start at keele and go west or at Humber College and go east?