BMO
Senior Member
so the public realm accessibility improvements are only better for people if they're going to the middle-of-the-road station platform and not if they're planning to cross the street.
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so the public realm accessibility improvements are only better for people if they're going to the middle-of-the-road station platform and not if they're planning to cross the street.
Amare
Senior Member
Stephen Holyday just made me do one of the largest eye rolls i've done in a while, but needless to say i'm surprised Tory is actually taking a second look at this as the Crosstown West study was flawed in every imaginable way:
https://www.thestar.com/news/city_h...cond-look-at-tunnelled-eglinton-west-lrt.html
https://www.thestar.com/news/city_h...cond-look-at-tunnelled-eglinton-west-lrt.html
Rainforest
Senior Member
That's nice.
I just hope they don't go to the opposite extreme and don't decide to tunnel the whole line, as much cheaper and still effective options exist for this particular corridor.
raptor
Senior Member
Safe to say the project is delayed by another year, at least?
Makes you wonder if this was all planed all along.
Rainforest
Senior Member
Does it need to be that long? I'd say, two months is enough to decide how much grade separation they are willing to fund, if any.
Even if they just do grade separations at Islington (the cheapest) and Martin Grove (the most congested), I'd say the design gets improved.
MisterF
Senior Member
Are you sure? I've seen figures of about 1 m/s/s for a transit bus, while Toronto's CLRVs can do 1.47 m/s/s. Maybe I'm missing something.
W. K. Lis
Superstar
Should at least grade separate the Martin Grove intersection.
BurlOak
Senior Member
First criteria was that the mid-block stations had to be retained.
Then they looked at potential grade-separation.
Should have considered what the benefit would be to full grade-separation. The earlier study from 16 months ago found that full grade-separation had the best benefit-cost ratio - only one with a better ratio than 1.0.
TransitBart
Senior Member
AlvinofDiaspar
Moderator
crs1026
Superstar
Does this have a date to go to Council? All I have found is the fairly non-technical documentation from the consultation.
I am wondering if any more technical analysis was done and if this suppoting documentation is going to see the public eye before the Council debate.
- Paul
Amare
Senior Member
This is part of the reason why if given the choice between choosing the city or Metrolinx to build Crosstown West, I would've chosen Metrolinx despite their failings on dealing with the Eastern section of the Crosstown line and the station naming conventions.
Reportedly council is set to vote on something next week regarding Crosstown West. What exactly they would be voting about, i'm not too sure.
raptor
Senior Member
Perhaps on the recommendations of the exec committee?
TheTigerMaster
Superstar
This would have to go though to Council for approval regardless.
And ML is in charge of building the Scarborough LRT (RT replacement)... we’ve seen how well that has gone
syn
Senior Member
Of course they're taking another look. Why shouldn't they get underground transit too?
That's going to be heard a lot more often as we continue to build underground infrastructure where it's not necessary. Politically speaking, it's a winner for whomever decides that their residents should no longer be 'mistreated'.