I got thinking about moving my "plan" for the DRL to donlands station.. (which for some reason I had always dismissed out of hand previously), and decided to switch my preferred route to it.
This is my new plan;
coming from the west, it is 13 stops to reach St. Andrew currently, it will be 10 with the DRL.
coming from the east, it is 12 stops to reach King currently, it will be 7 with the DRL.
Coming from Eglinton, it will be 16 stops using the ECLRT, and 11 with the DRL
It runs along King, with a purposely close stopping distance (around 600m) to allow for the elimination of the King streetcar. The 504 would continue to exist as a shortened route along Roncasvalles, and the King street tracks would be maintained to allow for detours from Queen.
I plan for Underground Streetcar stops at "parkdale" and "carlaw" stops. 501 service would have to be rerouted to King street to the next street (where new temporary tracks would be installed) for a significant amount of time to allow for the construction of the ramp (as well as a small rerouting of the streetcar tracks to move around the construction site), and Carlaw would have to have a streetcar bypass route for the Queen streetcar as the street would be closed for a significant amount of time (around 1km of track)
Double stops through the CBD, with King station working as the main stop. (there would be an exit onto King + Bay) St. Andrew will be on the western side of University, so it will act as more of the "entertainment district" stop. (I think some neat architecture could be integrated with the PATH through Roy Thompson Hall, maybe make the concourse visible from outside)
Stop list goes like this;
Don Mills (Current Don Mills would be renamed "Fairview')[INTERCHANGE]
Flemingdon
Throncliffe Park
Cosburn
Donlands [INTERCHANGE]
Gerrard
Carlaw
Canary
Parliament
Jarvis
King [INTERCHANGE]
St. Andrew [INTERCHANGE]
Spadina South
Bathurst South
Strachan
Liberty Village
Dufferin South
Jameson
Parkdale
Howard Park
Dundas West [INTERCHANGE]
Map: