Markham Yonge Line 1: Royal Orchard Station | ?m | ?s | Metrolinx

[Paclo]

This thread will be used for discussion of Royal Orchard Station: a proposed TTC station on the Yonge North Subway Extension, serving the intersection of Yonge Street and Royal Orchard Boulevard in the Thornhill—Langstaff neighbourhood of Vaughan and Markham.

 

[Rody365]

The station location and alignment has changed now!

 

[UtakataNoAnnex]

They're certainly deep tubing that..

 

[north-of-anything]

They're certainly deep tubing that..

"Why is subway construction so expensive in Toronto?"

 

[UtakataNoAnnex]

The red version looked like it would of been more expensive though...more curves, more hills.

 

[Cyber98]

Just now realized this is gonna go right underneath my old Elementary School.

 

[innsertnamehere]

-45m. Nuts.

 

[TossYourJacket]

So at least there's only one station on that deep alignment. Still ridiculous though. And what's the bet this ends up being one of the lowest ridership stations on the entire network? It's not exactly in a dense area.