SmartTrack (Proposed)

[M II A II R II K]

And a DRL would have to connect with Cityplace, unless a DRL Liberty Village station were to be sandwiched between Exhibition GO station and a new Liberty Village GO station at King St.

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

And a DRL would have to connect with Cityplace, unless a DRL Liberty Village station were to be sandwiched between Exhibition GO station and a new Liberty Village GO station at King St.

I think they need to rethink what DRL west is supposed to do with this announcement. Doesn't make a lot of sense to loop it up to Dundas West following a similar alignment.

AoD

 

[Amare]

We might as well call this 3 stations because there's no way a Front/Spadina and a "Liberty Village" will be built together. That's unless they're calling Liberty Village a station that's far north of the actual Liberty Village neighborhood. We know how Metrolinx has a penchant for ridiculous station naming these days.

 

[ShonTron]

We might as well call this 3 stations because there's no way a Front/Spadina and a "Liberty Village" will be built together. That's unless they're calling Liberty Village a station that's far north of the actual Liberty Village neighborhood. We know how Metrolinx has a penchant for ridiculous station naming these days.

Front/Spadina is an older Metrolinx proposal for a Union Station reliever station, built at the current site of the GO Bathurst North Yard. Liberty Village will likely be at King/Sudbury area, a few kilometres from Spadina.

 

[ShonTron]

So basically, GO RER is simply rebranded as SmartTrack. Tory takes the credit for work that GO/Metrolinx has been doing for years now.

 

[M II A II R II K]

And the trains are so long the station would span from Bathurst to Spadina.

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

So basically, GO RER is simply rebranded as SmartTrack. Tory takes the credit for work that GO/Metrolinx has been doing for years now.

Not a bad thing, if it meant an end to the original, nonsensical proposal.

AoD

 

[robmausser]

LOL! Front & Spadina? That's the last time I want to hear Mimico is too close to PL.

It might be a "second union station", as was an idea from a while ago. Basically creating another "Union", where the trains from the west stop at, and trains from the East stop at Union.

The idea is to have a subway connect them however.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...-shape-the-city-of-the-future/article4365456/

The other option looks at creating a second terminal further west, on the rail corridor near Bathurst or Strachan, and then building a downtown relief subway line that connects this “shoulder station” to the downtown office district, then runs east along Queen Street and ultimately swings up the Bloor-Danforth line around Pape (this DRL would also extend down to the CNE).That new terminus, dubbed the Bathurst North Yard Station, would mainly serve commuters from the north and western regions of the GTA. It could divert as many as a third of GO riders before they reach Union Station, according to the agency’s preliminary estimates.

 

[Filip]

It might be a "second union station", as was an idea from a while ago. Basically creating another "Union", where the trains from the west stop at, and trains from the East stop at Union.

The idea is to have a subway connect them however.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...-shape-the-city-of-the-future/article4365456/

That was at Bathurst for the new yard wasn't it?

 

[Amare]

Front/Spadina is an older Metrolinx proposal for a Union Station reliever station, built at the current site of the GO Bathurst North Yard. Liberty Village will likely be at King/Sudbury area, a few kilometres from Spadina.

So essentially trains would crawl from Front/Spadina to around King/Sudbury at a 15km/h clip, that sounds great.

 

[robmausser]

So essentially trains would crawl from Front/Spadina to around King/Sudbury at a 15km/h clip, that sounds great.

Not with proper PTC and EMU's they won't

Don't think of the future with the present bi level diesels. Those will be used sparingly for the outer fringes.

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

So essentially trains would crawl from Front/Spadina to around King/Sudbury at a 15km/h clip, that sounds great.

The signal/track upgrade at Union is supposed to speed up the trains, but would it have time to accelerate to a good clip before having to brake for the Spadina station? Not so sure.

AoD

 

[robmausser]

So basically, GO RER is simply rebranded as SmartTrack. Tory takes the credit for work that GO/Metrolinx has been doing for years now.

Show me a single document from Metrolinx prior to Tory's Smarttrack that mentions a Gerrard, Liberty Village, Unilever, Lawrence, Finch station on the GO RER network. The document of 50 potential stations came out after Smarttrack was incorporated.

Smarttrack always pitched itself as "piggybacking" on the GO RER plan, that was the entire point. To utilize that resource to benefit people downtown.

Prior to Smarttrack the GO RER plan was mostly focused on the 905.

Both parties deserve credit, and the current plan is an amalgamation of both ideas.

 

[robmausser]

The signal/track upgrade at Union is supposed to speed up the trains, but would it have time to accelerate to a good clip before having to brake for the Spadina station? Not so sure.

AoD

The trains at Union won't stop at the Spadina station. Its a new terminal station. Like Garre Centrale and Lucien L'Allier with the AMT network in Montreal.

Trains from the west stop at Spadina station. Trains from the East stop at Union.

I assume Lakeshore and the GO RER/Smarttrack route, would stop at one or the other, and continue through.

 

[crs1026]

I don't see much focus in this for Scarboro. More to come?

https://news.ontario.ca/mto/en/2016...nto.html?_ga=1.149735857.680134117.1466525716

- Paul