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Banned
In order for the LRT to be extended eastwards from Don Mills to Sheppard and Yonge in substitution for the existing subway, certain very expansive modifications will need to be made.
1. Tunnels must be modified to incorporate overhead wires to power the LRT vehicles.
2. The third rail that currently power the subway should need to be removed, especially in station as there are currently mounted on the platform side.
3. All platforms will need to be lowered to the floor level in order to accomadate the low floor LRTs. This will be very expansive as the platforms were not originally designed and built to be eaily taken apart. Add the fact that the station roof will need to be cut open for any type of heavy equipment, this will potentially be very expansive.
4. Either elevators will need to be modified to descend deeper or ramps will need to be built on the lowered platform to the elevator at current level for wheelchair access.
5. Stair will need to be extended.
6. Current tiles on the walls will need to be lowered. More difficult than it sounds as the tiles are mostly one-ofs. And for stations like Bayview, the station art that extends onto the floor level will be completely destroyed and would most likely need to be redone.
All these will add up to very significant costs, that’s on top of the political capital needed to convince the society that a perfectly fine subway line need to be taken apart just so that people don’t have to get off their butts and walk 200 meters on the SAME LEVEL to change trains.
TTC is proving how incompetent it is...
1-They will build the tunnel with subway specs and they would rather transform Don Mills than just go to Consumers,Victoria Park or Agincourt and built a station that fits both technology????
2-No LRT to STC???
3-No plan to increase speed??? They will use 1 Billion dollar to barely increase speed so we get a lovely sunday ride on Sheppard East??? How cute... This isn't Queen Street...
Shameful waste of Money.
The project would have been more acceptable if they had
A-Choose the 800m stops with close to subway speed and a parallele 85 bus every 30mins.
B-Goes to Scarborough Center. A 85 Bus from Morningside to the next LRT Station on Sheppard would have been more than enough.
C-Having the subway to Agincourt and build the station like the image I put earlier of Montreal Lionel Groulx Station.
LRT on one side and subway on the other side. Those going west just cross the platform and vice-versa
C'mon TTC...you could have done better. Maybe this compromise approch would convince a few councillors or the next Miller's opponents who will run for Mayor?
Sheppard East the way it is now is not good.
My suggestions are realistic. If subway doesn't reach a consensu among us, maybe this could?
***I'm 150% pro-subway on Sheppard*** but I can find a compromise... How about those who are against the subway? I still think as citizens we have to do something...
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