BurlOak
Senior Member
That looks nice, and can probably only be done with railways, that generally do not have utilities in their ROW. A street crossing overhead has storm sewer at a minimum, and often many other utilities under the street.
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CDL.TO
Moderator
Where Shon's photo was taken from is a street crossing overhead and you can see another (major) street crossing overhead in the background.
For the station site itself, Shon suggested this approach in the Eglinton Square triangle, where there isn't a street overhead (just some grass and a few trees).
I'm glad Shon's brought this up. I've been advocating using the Rietlandpark stop as a model for the Victoria Park stop for years now. One short tunnelled section could avoid busy intersections at Vic Park, Eglinton Square/O'Connor, and Pharmacy and there's a great space available to build an wide open below-grade stop.
ShonTron
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I'm pretty sure you're the one that told me to check out Rietlandpark! It's a great, relatively simple model to speed up surface LRT at critical locations.
CDL.TO
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Yeah, I'm not sure who else would tell you to do that.
It's not even an idea that could work in many places on the Transit City network. But it would work really well at Vic Park where 1. the curve in Eglinton and 2. the free unused land in the Eg Square triangle would make it really feasible.
Johnny Au
Senior Member
There is definitely room for Eglinton West station to have washrooms when the Crosstown line opens. Right now, on Line 1, there are no washrooms within the fare-paid zone between Yorkdale and Wellesley stations inclusive.
ehlow
Senior Member
If 2 hour fares happen, then you can come out of the subway, use the bathroom or do an errand or whatever, then get back on without paying again.
RainIsWet
New Member
The ESSO Station at Dufferin and Eglinton has been boarded up.
Future home of the LRT station.
Future home of the LRT station.
TheTigerMaster
Superstar
Johnny Au
Senior Member
That is good, although many commuters prefer the convenience of washrooms within the subway system, especially at suburban subway stations.
smallspy
Senior Member
Victoria Park will prove to be an important stop, and there are great redevelopment opportunities here. But washrooms aren't needed here. In fact, I think the one subway station that could really use public washrooms is St. George.
But I would have liked to see something like this in the Eglinton/Vic Park/Eglinton Square triangle:
Rietlandpark Tram Stop, Amsterdam
It would avoid two major traffic signals and add a bit more "RT" to LRT in this area.
I don't disagree with the idea, but what's the cost going to be? Could it be built without hugely expanding the current budget?
Dan
Toronto, Ont.
raptor
Senior Member
Transport minister Del Duca announced today that TBM Dennis arrived at Allen Rd.
Markster
Senior Member
Tunnels are being punched through all over the place! This and Ottawa in the last 2 days!
JayBeeGooner
Active Member
the transitway wasn't designed for conversion to LRT. I talked to the lead project manager (I work for the city), and he said there's no plans for conversion and he laughed when I brought up Mahoney's comment.
smallspy
Senior Member
Streets aren't generally designed for LRT or streetcars either. It doesn't mean that they can't be retrofitted.
Dan
Toronto, Ont.
robmausser
Senior Member
Thank you... what the hell is this talk about "conversion to LRT" not being possible.
Its %*&$ing pavement in an ROW... of course it can be converted to LRT.
What, is there hot lava under the asphalt that makes it impossible?