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Johnny Au said:
The TTC artificially lengthens the lifespans of the buses. When a bus is beyond repair, they strip the bus of all its parts and reuse them for other buses.
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As does every single other transit agency in North America.

Your point, exactly?

Dan
Toronto, Ont.
 
Johnny Au said:
The TTC artificially lengthens the lifespans of the buses. When a bus is beyond repair, they strip the bus of all its parts and reuse them for other buses.
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While true, TTC still targets 18 years. Anything beyond that is an unexpected bonus even with aggressive rebuilds.
 
With the emergence of 3D printing, streetcars and subway cars could last a lot longer with being able to custom print new parts on demand.
 
picard102 said:
The money will disappear the second it's canceled again. It's not going to be moved to support other projects.
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The federal money seems to be from a generic stimulus pool. Toronto earmarked its portion of the funds for the extension, but it could have been used for almost anything including basic sidewalk/road maintenance, Gardiner, Toronto Waterfront projects East Bayfront LRT), or even Toronto Community Housing repairs.

In effect, Ford did with this stimulus package what Miller tried to do with the 2008/2009 stimulus package.
 
CDL.TO said:
If we really do need a subway to McCowan and Sheppard (all of a sudden, don't seem to recall any calls for a subway there in the past), the Murray alignment could still dip underground after Scarborough Centre station and head up McCowan.
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I think it stems from a desire on the part of the planners (and some politicians) to actually make the SELRT useful. At least with a direct connection to the subway pretty much mid-line, it could boost ridership on that line by a fair amount.
 
^ haha! Pretty amazing for all the talk about how problematic transit expansion is in the city that most don't realize a tunnel is slowly being created under Eglinton.
 
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