SimonP
Active Member
I jut finished writing a Wikipedia article on Network 2011. It's the document that gave us the Sheppard subway, the Eglinton West line, and the DRL, and as such is the origin point for an awful lot of what we talk about here.
Many here know far more about these things than I, so let me know if there are any errors or omissions.
The other thing that would be very helpful for the article is a map. Here is one form the Star, but Wikipedia needs something usable under Creative Commons. If anyone has a quick way of making one, that'd be amazing.
Reading about the origins of these routes does raise some interesting questions:
*If we'd listened to Steve Munro and Gord Perks 25 years ago and opted to uses CLRVs and ARLVs instead of subways on the routes, would more have been built?
*The plan was premised on creating suburban subcentres that would serve as mini-downtowns. Has this plan been a failure? 25 years later NYCC is thriving, but the number of workers at SCC and ECC are still minute compared to the core.
Many here know far more about these things than I, so let me know if there are any errors or omissions.
The other thing that would be very helpful for the article is a map. Here is one form the Star, but Wikipedia needs something usable under Creative Commons. If anyone has a quick way of making one, that'd be amazing.
Reading about the origins of these routes does raise some interesting questions:
*If we'd listened to Steve Munro and Gord Perks 25 years ago and opted to uses CLRVs and ARLVs instead of subways on the routes, would more have been built?
*The plan was premised on creating suburban subcentres that would serve as mini-downtowns. Has this plan been a failure? 25 years later NYCC is thriving, but the number of workers at SCC and ECC are still minute compared to the core.