Toronto Leslie Barns | ?m | ?s | TTC | SAI
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crs1026
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Is that a "dead line" of CLRV's/ALRV's that have given up the ghost?
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drum118
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Some are to be fix while others maybe scrap depending on inspection.
achender
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kotsy
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TransitBart
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Very attractive. Biked past it twice this weekend. What this pork has to do with transit, streetcar barns, or streetcars is tough to see. We ask a lot and then complain about the cost. We deserve ourselves sometimes.
AlvinofDiaspar
Moderator
Not that I am particularly fond of pork, but considering the site was meant to be a park, this probably bought some neigbhourhood peace. Besides, how much does the landscaping cost - relative to say that of picking and remediating a highly contaminated site for this new build?
AoD
TransitBart
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Neighbourhood peace? I didn't know we were that violent. But next time someone who lives in Rexdale or Malvern or Lawrence Heights says that the downtowners got it all, I may have to agree.
Now the distances are or are not walking depending on your health, but...
If you keep walking directly south, you get to the Leslie Street Spit and Tommy Thompson Park.
If you walk to the east you get to the rugby field (sewage treatment park
) or Ashbridges Bay ParkIf you walk to the west you get to McCleary Park at the Commissioner's Street Incincerator.
And if you walk directly north, there is Maple Leaf Forever Park off of Memory Lane.
We are not starved for parks in Leslieville. We will need a few 80 story condominium towers on the Leslie Street Spit to generate the property taxes to pay for the upkeep of all these parks. The only thing that is worse than something that looks like hell is something that was beautiful that has been allowed to go to seed. I hope that the city has a plan to keep the parks looking beautiful.
EastYorkTTCFan
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I think it was appeasement for when the local councilor wanted the skatepark to be ripped out and money used for more parks along queen street instead. What ended up happening was a lot of the skaters in the city turned up at city hall to protest it so council didn't even let her motion pass.
ADRM
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Neighbourhood peace? I didn't know we were that violent. But next time someone who lives in Rexdale or Malvern or Lawrence Heights says that the downtowners got it all, I may have to agree.
Now the distances are or are not walking depending on your health, but...
If you keep walking directly south, you get to the Leslie Street Spit and Tommy Thompson Park.
If you walk to the east you get to the rugby field (sewage treatment park
If you walk to the west you get to McCleary Park at the Commissioner's Street Incincerator.
And if you walk directly north, there is Maple Leaf Forever Park off of Memory Lane.
We are not starved for parks in Leslieville. We will need a few 80 story condominium towers on the Leslie Street Spit to generate the property taxes to pay for the upkeep of all these parks. The only thing that is worse than something that looks like hell is something that was beautiful that has been allowed to go to seed. I hope that the city has a plan to keep the parks looking beautiful.
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TransitBart
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Actually the bill for the barn and tracks includes streetscape improvements on Queen from Greenwood to Curzon. I love beautiful streets. No problem with trees and benches. But lumping that in with a transit project is bullshit. It's no wonder things cost what they cost.
AlvinofDiaspar
Moderator
You've got to be kidding me - considering the city is about to build a subway to STC, public art, landscaping and all at 3-4B - if they want a streetcar barn with landscaping, they are free to take it (and guess what, it will also happen with Finch West LRT)
As to the streetscape improvement - it shouldn't be lumped in (considering the St. Clair experience), but guess what, at least part of it was required the roadwork/trackwork (plus the sewer replacement). So really, just how much does a few extra bricks and plantings add to the big elephant of the bill.
AoD
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TransitBart
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TransitBart
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So...
Unit 76 or so of the Flexity order is delivered or about to be. Leslie Barns was designed to provide maintenance to the entire fleet, but store about 100 units. Sometime in the next four months, some Flexities are going to call Russell or Roncesvalles home. The TTC has scrapped so many ALRVs and CLRVs that there is plenty of room at both the old carhouses. I think the plan had about 100 at Leslie and 50 at each of Roncesvalles and Russell.
Unit 76 or so of the Flexity order is delivered or about to be. Leslie Barns was designed to provide maintenance to the entire fleet, but store about 100 units. Sometime in the next four months, some Flexities are going to call Russell or Roncesvalles home. The TTC has scrapped so many ALRVs and CLRVs that there is plenty of room at both the old carhouses. I think the plan had about 100 at Leslie and 50 at each of Roncesvalles and Russell.
smallspy
Senior Member
The plan is to store about 60 or so units at each of Roncesvalles and Russell - thus the construction currently going on at Roncy - but Leslie is capable of holding almost 150 cars on its own. This is why the total order, including options, was for 264 cars. This was the absolute maximum number of cars that could be stored using the existing infrastructure without having to build another yard somewhere.
Dan
Toronto, Ont.