TTC: Streetcar Network

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The above discussion leads me to ask @smallspy:

1) Is it possible to refit the flexities with a suspension that would make the level boarding at modified islands work?

2) Given the problem that may cause at non-island stops, would there be any sense to segregating the fleet so that those that run on routes that are all island/platform, 509, 510, 512 had a dedicated fleet suited to that, w/the other flexities remaining configured for typical street operations.

3) Is there sufficient room at Spadina and St. Clair/St.Clair West stations to provide level boarding height platforms, given, particularly at St. Clair West, that the platform also serves buses and has to maintain its current level for stairs/escalators.

The two loops floors can be raise to match the car floor with a sloop to comply with OADA reequipments at a cost and how to do it in phases, Doing it in phases will have an impact on quality of service to the point you bus the line and do the rebuilt on a 7/24 base until it is completed. The whole area can sloop up to the area that is used for riders today than a small section for a small ramp. Doing this removes the need for the driver to leave the car to deploy the ramp. Seen systems in Europe where the driver lift the ramp out like the front door a bus when it fails faster than it does take today

If you are doing St Clair West Loop for the cars, you should do it for buses as well

As for 2), you need to do the whole fleet since they get moved around and assign to different routes all the time. Hard to have a small assign fleet for those routes for very reasons.