Woodbridge_Heights
Senior Member
Elevated routes would not pass in today's environment. People simply do not want to have an elevated rail line passing through their back yards. The EA process would be overrun by citizens against it.
Elevated routes would not pass in today's environment. People simply do not want to have an elevated rail line passing through their back yards. The EA process would be overrun by citizens against it.
Does that apply to the eastern section of Eglinton LRT though? Between Leslie and Warden, are there any dwellings facing the street?
The other obvious opportunity for elevated would be in the Finch Hydro Corridor (replacing the Finch West LRT). Here though there are houses backing the hydro corridor (except between Dufferin and Keele where the busway currently exists, which is industrial), so there would be opposition. Also there is a very recently built bike path here which would have to be removed.
I wonder how effective having the LRT dip below each intersection would be?
I believe that would have occurred over time at the intersections with the most delay and/or accidents.
It absolutely is. You build it where it needs to be built. Brussels now has a sizable subway system almost completely built through a gradual pre-metro process of building the segments with the greatest surface route obstacles first.
At least with Transit City, much more people would have been able to ride rapid transit. With Transit City, where the roads are narrow they would have gone underground, where the roads are open and wide it would have been running on the surface.
Almost all of the Overground is on old existing surface or underground rail lines (though part of the East London line was originally a pedestrian and horse carriage tunnel under the Thames they started building in the 1820s). There's only a couple of curves between existing track that have been added for the project. Though a short piece is on the old approaches to London Broad Street, that hadn't been used in a quarter-century - but the viaduct was still there.IHowever, I think most people would love to have an above ground network similar to the London Overground.
At least with Transit City, much more people would have been able to ride rapid transit. With Transit City, where the roads are narrow they would have gone underground, where the roads are open and wide it would have been running on the surface.
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Note the transit signals.
Yes it was. Perhaps you should read the plan.Transit City was never Rapid Transit.