That's a flashback, haha! Unfortunately this option would require a Front St DRL alignment, which is pretty much off the table now.Don't know - maybe refering to the fantasy map created by Gweed123 a good number of years ago.
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That's a flashback, haha! Unfortunately this option would require a Front St DRL alignment, which is pretty much off the table now.Don't know - maybe refering to the fantasy map created by Gweed123 a good number of years ago.
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Of course. The triple whopper exists on the menu, despite very low sales (under 1%) to make the double whopper more appealing price wise.
I think adrianaliu's point was to make expanding the loop the 2nd most expensive option in the same way the 1-stop subway in Scarborough is the result of a compromise from a crazy expensive option (for the benefit) to a still very expensive option. A $2B University line extension might make a $500M loop expansion look good.
I’m talking about this:The map just upthread is dead now anyway given the new tower opposite ACC. Stub ending Line 1 would likely reduce headways not to mention screw over connections (and eliminate the option of going round the horn to St George when Yonge trains are packed in the PM rush). Also: no connection to Line 2 or Wilson so big hit on yard capacity and resilency. No thanks.
I’m talking about this:
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Somewhat of a crazy notion: If a King pilot-like configuration is extended to include all of King West (all the way to Roncesvalles), is the LRT connector along Lake Shore connecting to Dufferin Loop even needed? Streetcars could just as easily be run along the Queensway to Roncesvalles, then east on King, then south on Dufferin, connecting to the QQW/Ex line there. This would obviously still need to Ex-Dufferin connector piece, but that's a fraction of the price of the Lake Shore piece.
Personally, I'd rather see that option implemented, with the funds for the Lake Shore piece going to QQE, since there's no real streetcar alternative there. I know in a perfect world we'd like to have funding for both, but hey, this is TO Council we're talking about here. Any talk of LRT corridors south of Bloor will likely result in some sort of horse trading with Scarborough winding up with a Maglev.
UT has a thread for "fantasy transit maps" and this discussion would seem to be better there. See: https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threads/transit-fantasy-maps.3005/page-320 If the existing Line 1 loop did not go through Union it MIGHT be a good idea to get it further south but we are LONG past that.That would be the ideal solution. But with the work that was just finished with expanding Union (TTC) station, I think there's little appetite to go back in.
Yea I've been thinking this. I don't understand who the Lakeshore alignment east of Humber would be serving that the Queensway/King Streetcar couldn't serve better?
The other issue to consider when proposing bringing subway and its third rail power below Front Street is how often the TTC has had to deal with water issues in the Bay St tunnel.
Somewhat of a crazy notion: If a King pilot-like configuration is extended to include all of King West (all the way to Roncesvalles), is the LRT connector along Lake Shore connecting to Dufferin Loop even needed? Streetcars could just as easily be run along the Queensway to Roncesvalles, then east on King, then south on Dufferin, connecting to the QQW/Ex line there. This would obviously still need to Ex-Dufferin connector piece, but that's a fraction of the price of the Lake Shore piece.
Ah yes! Transit First. Groan!Looks like the TTC Corporate Plan 2018-2022 states that Waterfront Transit will open 2033-2037. Source:
http://ttc.ca/About_the_TTC/Commiss...ary_25/Reports/1_Corporate_Plan_2018-2022.pdf
Ah yes! Transit First. Groan!