[begratto]

I'm pretty sure Montreal REM's Edouard Montpetit Station 70 metres below the surface will soon be Canada's deepest, if not the continent's deepest.

Édouard-Montpetit will be the second deepest in North America, behind Portland's (Oregon) Washington Park light-rail station which is 79 metres down.

Source

 

[nfitz]

Does that mean the crosstown will have the deepest station in Canada? Montreal's Charlevoix is 29m, Ottawa's Rideau is 26m, Burrard in Vancouver is 25m and Edmonton's University is 23m

Some very deep platforms are planned for the Relief Line South. It won't be as deep as the REM station under Mount Royal - but the north end of the proposed TTC Gerrard station is over 40 metres below the entrance to the platform. Presumably deeper to the track. (it's only 32 metres from the Gerrard/Carlaw intersection to the track). The plans call for 5 escalators to get to the proposed Smart Track platform!


(from page 35 of Appendix 3-2)

Even the new Relief Line platforms at Osgoode station are planned to be over 30 metres below ground surface, and the new Queen platforms are about 29.5 metres! Eve the new platforms at Pape station are 27 metres below ground surface!

 

[kotsy]

Yep. Beats NY's 191st Street station which is 55m deep.

Beats anything in London too! Their deepest is 58m.

 

[thettctransitfanatic]

Beats anything in London too! Their deepest is 58m.

Wow. I learned some new facts today that I nevertheless knew...

 

[Monarch Butterfly]

Charlevoix does not, Vancouver, Edmonton and Ottawa all had them from the get go. Really only Toronto and Montreal have systems old enough to have non-accessible stations, and only Montreal was still building inaccessible stations as late as the mid 80s.

Does the crosstown have redundant elevators? The confederation line has all elevators in pairs, versus the older transitway stations that only had 1 per platform.

If not, then when the one elevator is out-of-service, only the escalators will be available. UNLESS, they are also out-of-service.

 

[kotsy]

Wow. I learned some new facts today that I nevertheless knew...

Well, I'm really glad you speak for everyone else too.

 

[nephersir7]

Does that mean the crosstown will have the deepest station in Canada? Montreal's Charlevoix is 29m, Ottawa's Rideau is 26m, Burrard in Vancouver is 25m and Edmonton's University is 23m

If it does have the deepest station in Canada, it won’t be for long. Montreal’s Édouard-Montpetit REM station, which is under construction, will be 70m deep.

Also worthy of mention is the REM station at Trudeau Airport, which will be 35m underground.

 

[reteequa]

Beats anything in London too! Their deepest is 58m.

That really surprises me that their deepest is only 58m. All I remember about the tube is really tight tunnels and never-ending escalator rides!

 

[Richard White]

That really surprises me that their deepest is only 58m. All I remember about the tube is really tight tunnels and never-ending escalator rides!

I once walked up the stairs at Holborn station because I was not willing to wait for an elevator. Big mistake.

 

[Monarch Butterfly]

That really surprises me that their deepest is only 58m. All I remember about the tube is really tight tunnels and never-ending escalator rides!

The staircase in the CN Tower is 351 metres to the restaurant (overall height: 553.33 metres). So 58m is not bad for an able-bodied person.

 

[thettctransitfanatic]

The staircase in the CN Tower is 351 metres to the restaurant (overall height: 553.33 metres). So 58m is not bad for an able-bodied person.

Lazy people of course will just countine taking the elevator or escalator of course!

 

[Neutrino]

Lazy people of course will just countine taking the elevator or escalator of course!

To be honest, I've started doing that in subway stations haha

 

[Hieberrr]

The surface stops should operate like streetcar stops in my opinion, and underground stops like the subway

This would just lead to confusion, in my opinion. The fact that it has undergone stations, to me, means it should stop at every stop.

 

[thettctransitfanatic]

This would just lead to confusion, in my opinion. The fact that it has undergone stations, to me, means it should stop at every stop.

Well, the above ground stops are basically just repackaged St Clair ROW stops

 

[Hieberrr]

Well, the above ground stops are basically just repackaged St Clair ROW stops

Isn't this marketed as Line 5 (and as part of the "subway" system) though? If the way it's operated, from a customer perspective, is different from the rest of the system, I'd rather not call it Line 5. I know, semantics and nitpicking, but just trying to avoid causing confusion and frustration.