TheTigerMaster
Superstar
Thanks. We're there any slides from the meeting?
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BurlOak
Senior Member
Will this be like the East portion of the current phase of construction?
We are paying 90% of the cost of a fully grade-separated line just to force it on-street for a short section. Maybe they picked a 1km section an said "this must be on street" and then designed the rest.
We are paying 90% of the cost of a fully grade-separated line just to force it on-street for a short section. Maybe they picked a 1km section an said "this must be on street" and then designed the rest.
crs1026
Superstar
There was a ppt presentation but I didnt see any copies to take away. Hoping it will get posted.
- Paul
TransitBart
Senior Member
Plenty of chatter on this one which all of us here believe means that the Relief Line passes through. My colleagues from Richmond Hill at work; however, would all be climbing the walls if Wynford showed as intermodal meaning someone had figured out how to connect GO Richmond Hill to Line 5. We can't have it all. Kudos to the planners for Mount Dennis, Caledonia, and the more obvious Cedarvale, Eglinton, and Kennedy.
W. K. Lis
Superstar
Guess what intersection along the proposed Eglinton West LRT, they should grade separate the right-of-way? Bonus points, if you can guess where there should be a grade separation at an intersection along the proposed Eglinton East LRT, where it goes along Kingston Road?
TransitBart
Senior Member
Guess what intersection along the proposed Eglinton West LRT, they should grade separate the right-of-way? Bonus points, if you can guess where there should be a grade separation at an intersection along the proposed Eglinton East LRT, where it goes along Kingston Road?
I grew up in Etobicoke, so I am guessing the Eglinton, Martingrove, old Richview Expressway, East Mall, Hwy 401 jumble. It has not been am easy drive through this intersection for twenty years at rush hour. Eglinton itself is quite stop and go from Kipling west at busy points of the day.
TransitBart
Senior Member
Guess what intersection along the proposed Eglinton West LRT, they should grade separate the right-of-way? Bonus points, if you can guess where there should be a grade separation at an intersection along the proposed Eglinton East LRT, where it goes along Kingston Road?
Answer two. Islington is in a depression at Eglinton, so a flyover for the LRT would be a no-brainer.
CapitalSeven
Senior Member
W. K. Lis
Superstar
The province has the money to spend on roadways to be used by single occupant motor vehicles in underpasses and overpasses, but very little for trains of hundreds of passengers in transit vehicles.
Steve X
Senior Member
It's so much cheaper to do a small road project that sounds good in the nearby communities. A $50M project can widen a highway for a few kilometres and they buy hundreds of votes.
For the city of Toronto, transportation planning is really planning for cars. They rather put in a left turning lane and stick with the garbage far side stops that stops LRVs twice at an intersection.
BurlOak
Senior Member
If Martin Grove and Islington are grade separated, then the line would be like a roller coaster.
Up over Jane and Black Creek, down at Royal York, up over Islington and down at Kipling and up over Martin Grove. At each of those, the on-street segments, would be for under a kilometre, before rising again.
So freeway style ramps terminals promote an urban streetscape?
Steve X
Senior Member
The SW ramp is under a hydro corridor with an Enbridge feeder station. The NE ramp would be beside a park. SE is a high school. NW is a becoming a forest with all those trees planet in the 90s. A bunch of apartments is behind that. Westbound leads to major highways. There's just no hope for the intersection.
crs1026
Superstar
TheTigerMaster
Superstar
Thanks!
TheTigerMaster
Superstar
Notably, this could open as soon as 2024. Not too bad, since Crosstown will open 2021. Other than that, I don't see any new info in the presentation