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One thing I never understood is why did they plant one side of the track and not the other when there wasn't anything in the way like an electrical vault buried at the spot....the above posted pic is an example...
You have to ask the brains that run this city. Everything seems backwards. It seems like they want to put in zero effort in maintaining the tracks. It really doesn’t make sense as you can see the Black Creek yard as well as TTC subway all has bolts and ties instead of concrete filling. This probably reduces the needs to send someone to check and adjust racks regularly.How does everyone in Bilbao or Karlsruhe or Vienna and a multitude of other cities do it then? I’m fairly certain the tracks are set in concrete and then only a top layer of soil maintains the grass. Eglinton does have grassy sections so it’s possible here too.
I will say, the TTC does seem to think they need to reinvent the wheel as The TTC Way™ all the time. Why does the TTC have a proprietary gauge? The standard gauges works well everywhere else. Grass trolly paths are done successfully in dozens of cities. Just take what they’ve figured out and apply it.
That’s not really a big deal. Other railways can have unique gauges. The new lines being built, not connected to the legacy system, is standard gauge anyway.
As others have pointed out thousands of times in this forum since the launch of this website, the Toronto gauge is a trivial problem that is blown way out of proportion. Switching to standard gauge would cost millions of dollars with no appreciable benefits. The actual issues Toronto faces when purchasing European equipment is the city’s love of streetcar loops, tight turns, and grades. It’s like arguing that Billy Bishop can’t support jets because it has the wrong colour asphalt and ignoring basic physical principles like the runway’s length or the city’s noise restrictions
Not to mention the hundreds of second hand American standard gauge PCC's that the TTC purchased and subsequently re-gauged.Word to the wise: when you encounter an odd idiosyncrasy like TTC gauge, rather than behaving like a politician trying to get people riled up assuming that those people did it to be special and unique, perhaps look in on the historical reasons why.
Toronto-gauge railways - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
Toronto is hardly the only city in the world with an irregular gauge. And as noted above, it's really not a big deal. Gone are the days of people buying one size fits all off the shelf products like the PCC, it is far more common these days for a vehicle to be made bespoke anyway.
That is not even remotely close to why they did it. Please stop making things up.
That is how they've done it on Eglinton, too.How does everyone in Bilbao or Karlsruhe or Vienna and a multitude of other cities do it then? I’m fairly certain the tracks are set in concrete and then only a top layer of soil maintains the grass. Eglinton does have grassy sections so it’s possible here too.
If you look, all of the spots that they've paved in one direction but used grass in the other are on approach to intersections that don't have platforms. This was done to allow emergency vehicles to use the ROW and bypass any queues of vehicles at red lights.
The short answer is "because history".
Most of their articles read as poor AI/LLM (or at least very poor translations), and use self-referencing links. I've never found them to be particularly accurate or noteworthy on any of their news items.
Maybe he is scrapping Eglinton and building a tunnel along that line instead...
