jmi22
Active Member
I've never seen a clear explanation for why the TTC completely abandoned anything except below-grade alignments starting in the 1980s.
They sub out the elevated tracks over the Eglinton Flats, and an (admittedly optimistic) option for an elevated run up Weston for wholly tunneled alignments, even when they would be crazy expensive as is the case with tunneling under the Humber River. Around the same time period, the proposed Line 2 extension to Sherway along mostly a wide freight rail corridor is proposed as wholly tunneled despite running through wholly industrial and commercial lands, driving up costs to the point of never building the relatively easy extension.
It does not feel like a coincidence that this is the same time period when subway expansion functionally died out (yes other factors were contributing to this) and I can't understand why the TTC basically threw their decades of successful alignment planning out of the window.
They sub out the elevated tracks over the Eglinton Flats, and an (admittedly optimistic) option for an elevated run up Weston for wholly tunneled alignments, even when they would be crazy expensive as is the case with tunneling under the Humber River. Around the same time period, the proposed Line 2 extension to Sherway along mostly a wide freight rail corridor is proposed as wholly tunneled despite running through wholly industrial and commercial lands, driving up costs to the point of never building the relatively easy extension.
It does not feel like a coincidence that this is the same time period when subway expansion functionally died out (yes other factors were contributing to this) and I can't understand why the TTC basically threw their decades of successful alignment planning out of the window.
