1overcosc
Active Member
I have no idea which act is relevant here, but at least according to my mother it is indeed illegal.
The Don river retaining wall project cant get finished fast enough and even then sometimes it won't make any difference. The Bala sub(and DVP) was AGAIN flooded last night resulting is several train cancellations.
Maybe it would be a better idea to move the DVP out of the flood plain.
You run it along the top of the valley. You need to tear everything down that exist there today regardless of what it and any historical value. Best place to stop it is at Don Mills and close it off to the south..............................................Heading to the hillsAnd put it where, exactly?
Dan
Toronto, Ont.
I know the section immediately north of the USRC is a problem flooding area. What about upstream (e.g. north of where the Bala and the Leaside Spur)?
Occasionally we'll get high water warnings from the RTC for sections of the line further up. But its always just for storm run off and rarely ever saturates or covers the ballast, nevermind going over the top of the rails. The only section that ever floods completely is the USRC to Pottery rd. area.
What is USRC? Union Station Rail Corridor? also, RTC?
I know the section immediately north of the USRC is a problem flooding area. What about upstream (e.g. north of where the Bala and the Leaside Spur)?
Wouldn't mind seeing the tracks elevated at Pottery Road but that would be more to eliminate a tricky grade crossing
The reason I was asking about flooding upstream of the Bala/Leaside split is because it's really too bad that connection between the CN Bala sub and the CP West Toronto sub was eliminated. Given the flooding problems and the potential to increase speed, I would have been in favour of Richmond Hill GO trains and VIA/ONR trains heading up north or out west to use this connection, eliminating the use of the Bala sub south of York Mills Rd.
Alas, it is a biking trail/parkspace now. No way they would go back and rip it up to place a bunch of trains in there.
There are a couple of locations around Eglinton that are problematic, but by and large the biggest issues are south of Bloor.
As for the former CN/CNoR line paralleling Leslie, that is owned by the City of Toronto but is (or at least, was when I last checked) still zoned as a transportation corridor. In theory, that means that it would not be difficult to rebuilt the tracks along it. In fact, the City's reasoning for buying the corridor was to maintain it's ability to be used as a rail corridor in the future.
Dan
Toronto, Ont.
Would it be possible to widen the corridor and install tracks next to the bike bath, rather than replace the bike path?
It's certainly possible, but at this point it's probably exceedingly unlikely (NIMBYism aside). You'd encounter issues surrounding the need to provide grade separation on the RH line at the request of CP to have the RH line cross from the south to the north side of the tracks. This grade separation would be further complicated by the need of a new railway bridge over the West Don Branch to the south of CP's existing trestle. Given this, I don't think the Leaside Spur Trail is getting converted back to a rail line anytime soon.