Montréal Transit Developments

[Northern Light]

*ahem* not everyone has kids in their young years...

Don't tell me your rocking those form-fitting, attention getting outfits in your senior years, LOL

 

[Mind_the_gap]

North Entrance in 2010s
View attachment 602329

A better photo, in my opinion @nfitz...

Source

Edit: Sorry @Northern Light, I hadn't noticed your post.

 

[Towered]

Don't tell me your rocking those form-fitting, attention getting outfits in your senior years, LOL

If Iggy Pop can do it...

 

[dowlingm]

The rolling stock was replaceable, and the Guideway was structurally fine.

The reality is that the line was at capacity, and was unable to accommodate newer versions of the 'Sky Train' technology, essentially because of of the tunnelled curve taking the line from N-S to E-W and vice versa.

It simply couldn't handle longer train cars/trains. The TTC's 'Mark 1' versions of the technology haven't been made for years, and several cars had already been de-commissioned due to age or crashes or the like.

So to upgrade the line with new equipment meant shuttering it for 2.5 years minimum to rebuild the offending tunnel. Additionally, only 2 of the six stations were long enough to support longer trains, and so would have required significant work to expand them and upgrade them.

In light of that, and the long standing desire to expand the line further north and east..........the choice was made to replace it with a subway. However, the endless nonsense at Toronto City Hall led to different schemes being cancelled/altered/reinstated multiple times.

Meanwhile, the TTC understood that there was no future for the line as is, with its 'orphan' technology and so scaled backed any plans to sustain it for the longer term.

There was also the problem that none of the stations between STC and Kennedy were accessible so there was no intention to run the service past 2025 anyway, so the incident merely brought that forward