mdrejhon
Senior Member
A TTC/Metrolinx merger? By 2025, it's more like massive Metrolinx acquiring little TTC.
By 2025, ECLRT, Hurontario, and at least one other Metrolinx LRT, and some high-frequency GO RER lines, will have been operating for some time, possibly covering more total electricified rail than TTC subway/streetcars combined.
If they do a good job pulling off all the new LRTs, and good traffic signal priority systems, and they run twice as fast as TTC St. Clair (like many speedier LRTs already deployed elsewhere in the world), and calls of why "TTC streetcars" are much slower than "Metrolinx streetcars", it may actually be politically easy by then, and possibly a massively good idea from a transit network efficiency/integration perspective. But might not be a good idea from a low-fare perspective, unless the Metrolinx LRTs end up having excellent farebox recovery at TTC prices. Then again, politics can change a lot in just 10 years...
By 2025, ECLRT, Hurontario, and at least one other Metrolinx LRT, and some high-frequency GO RER lines, will have been operating for some time, possibly covering more total electricified rail than TTC subway/streetcars combined.
If they do a good job pulling off all the new LRTs, and good traffic signal priority systems, and they run twice as fast as TTC St. Clair (like many speedier LRTs already deployed elsewhere in the world), and calls of why "TTC streetcars" are much slower than "Metrolinx streetcars", it may actually be politically easy by then, and possibly a massively good idea from a transit network efficiency/integration perspective. But might not be a good idea from a low-fare perspective, unless the Metrolinx LRTs end up having excellent farebox recovery at TTC prices. Then again, politics can change a lot in just 10 years...
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