EnviroTO
Senior Member
Anything is possible, but I don't think that will because a) The optics of converting a subway to an LRT look bad no matter how justified it is and b) accessibility is the big selling point for the low-floor vehicles.
Really going with high-floor might make sense if Eglinton underground is to be upgraded to subway some day in the future but the issue is that 1100mm is a higher than normal floor height for LRT. Ramps at platforms mean the high-floor LRT need not be inaccessible. The most commonly used platform heights for all rail equipment types are 200mm (steps), 380mm (LRT low, North American commuter low), 550mm (EU rail low), 760mm (EU rail high), 900mm (LRT/UK high), 1100mm (Metro/Russia high), and 1220mm (North American high) with LRT staying below 1m. If there is no possibility for an 1100mm floor height LRT maybe a 900mm height would make sense. During an LRT to metro conversion a height change of 20cm isn't nearly the effort of a height change of 75cm.