denfromoakvillemilton
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At the rate we are on currently the DRL will open around 2025 or 2026, at which the King and Roncasvalles streetcar services will likely be eliminated as they have been replaced with a subway service. (maybe even broadview) This will free up a ton of streetcars to use on other lines which will almost certainly be feeling the weight of 100,000 more people living in the downtown core than today. plus you can add the Queens Quay Streetcar extension, possibly the Portlands extension at that point, and a couple more extensions like maybe the St. Clair streetcar being brought out to Jane, and you have a lot of the extra streetcars being used up. Any extra can be put in storage and saved for a time when they are inevitably needed for service increases to meet demand moving into the 2030's.
We need an open DRL by 2020 at worst. We have to have something on paper by the end of the year and begin construction in March 2014