[officedweller]

- was elevating the Expo Line through Central Park a problem?

No, because it was a historical inter-urban railway RoW from New Westminster to Vancouver.
There may even have been old tracks in place when the Expo Line was built, as a railway overpass over Boundary Road was demolished about that time. It was called the Central Park Line. The Expo Line follows much of this route.
Here's a write-up:

The Central Park Line: the very first interurban in greater Vancouver - The Buzzer blog

Today, I’m pleased to present a brief look at the Central Park Line, one of the interurban lines that used […]

buzzer.translink.ca

 

[junctionist]

Of course not - it's only slightly less silly than tunnelling under. But see also Central Park.


If only there was a station called High Park, next to the park. Though perhaps we can just build a streetcar loop on a nearby line that goes through the densely-populated streetcar suburbs.

Yes, let's see also Central Park. It doesn't have any elevated lines running through it, though New York has plenty of elevated tracks elsewhere. Some lines pass underneath it.

There are some 13 subway stations within a block of the park. People from all around the city want to go there, and the transit system makes it happen efficiently.

High Park's existing subway station only serves one part of the park decently, and its entrance isn't even within the park. To get to the station, many people have to take streetcars that travel at walking pace in downtown traffic and buses that get stuck in traffic to reach line 2. It can take close to an hour to get there from many parts of even the pre-amalgamation city of Toronto during congested times (to say nothing of trying to get there from the suburban parts of the city by transit), despite the distance only being under 10 km.

Many of Toronto's "streetcar suburbs" are now in the heart of the city and densifying fast. They're congested. Condos are going up. Multiplexes are going in. People more options to need to reach destinations like High Park quickly by transit or they're just going to use cars and demand parking in the park. This isn't 1966 anymore. There's a lot more people and cars in Toronto now--especially in the pre-amalgamation city of Toronto.

 

[nfitz]

Yes, let's see also Central Park. It doesn't have any elevated lines running through it, though New York has plenty of elevated tracks elsewhere. Some lines pass underneath it.

I don't know what New York has got to do with this. The discussion was about Central Park in Burnaby that has the elevated Expo line going through it.

 

[Bureaucromancer]

No, because it was a historical inter-urban railway RoW from New Westminster to Vancouver.
There may even have been old tracks in place when the Expo Line was built, as a railway overpass over Boundary Road was demolished about that time. It was called the Central Park Line. The Expo Line follows much of this route.
Here's a write-up:

The Central Park Line: the very first interurban in greater Vancouver - The Buzzer blog

Today, I’m pleased to present a brief look at the Central Park Line, one of the interurban lines that used […]

buzzer.translink.ca

There were tracks in place on much of the corridor into the 90s

Although I will say… I’m not opposed to an elevated or surface LRT row directly parallel to park side drive… I dropped my concept in the fantasy thread the other day, but my own inclination is this is better an LRT with a transfer to the OL Western extension, at which point we can talk about High Park / Parkside as a green track surface LRT that need not have much actual interface with surface traffic.