KevinT
Senior Member
What, no quaternary entrance? Scandal!
|
|
|
What, no quaternary entrance? Scandal!
Streety McCarface
Senior Member
But it has a bus terminal so it's good.
M II A II R II K
Senior Member
Why close the subway all the way up to Sheppard for work on the Crosstown, so trains will only go from Finch to Sheppard and back again.
Richard White
Senior Member
Because Lawrence has substandard bus facilities and will likely have the power cut there if Eglinton also has it cut (the general rule is power cut as far as one station away on either side)
York Mills has a pocket track and not entirely suitable for turnbacks anymore. They can do it but it is not practical.
Sheppard has a crossover, it connects to the Sheppard subway and has adequate space for a turnback shuttle service.
smallspy
Senior Member
Actually, they have and will continue to use the pocket track at York Mills for turnbacks.
But they can't for this round of Crosstown closures, as part of the work going on involves stringing up wires for the ATC system up to Lawrence and points north, and trackwork at the north end of the pocket track south of York Mills.
Dan
Aplus23
Active Member
Where did I read that ATC was a joke, or the way we are doing it is. Something about wasting millions on the wires setup? Any truth to this?
Monarch Butterfly
Superstar
So you wish the TTC to continue to use outdated telephone lines and punched cards as well?
How far back in time, do you want to go?
maxt797
Active Member
Any recent photos of the at grade progress east of Don Mills?
NoahB
Active Member
smallspy
Senior Member
The original plan for the ATC/ATO system was as an overlay over a brand new fixed block signal system - replacing the original system which mostly dates back to the launch of the subway system - starting with the stretch from Eglinton to Union.
It was soon realized that this was a bit of a silly idea, and they did cancel the project after about 2 years of work. But that was also 3 or so years ago.
As for the ATC/ATO system itself, it's construction and implementation seems to be going about as smoothly or more so as any other installation as a replacement system previously.
Dan
cplchanb
Senior Member
so in plain speak its a gongshow then.....
daptive
Senior Member
So is the new ATC system being installed dependent on the old signal system?
sixrings
Senior Member
'It won't happen': Plan to remake Scarborough's Golden Mile falling short
The plan is meant to make Scarborough’s Golden Mile a “City of the Future” again, and it’s a vision that could fail.
www.toronto.com
The plan is meant to make Scarborough’s Golden Mile a “City of the Future” again, and it’s a vision that could fail.
People from surrounding neighbourhoods are hearing redevelopment will bring 45,000 residents and 19,000 jobs to properties along Eglinton Avenue. They see no guarantee this will benefit them.
The district’s landowners, after three years of working with Toronto planners on the Golden Mile Secondary Plan (GMSP), are balking at density caps preventing them from building as high as they want on holdings from Victoria Park Avenue to Birchmount Road.
KingSett Capital, RioCan Holdings and Choice Properties REIT are pushing their own plans forward through appeals. In February, each will ask Toronto’s Local Planning Appeal Tribunal to help.
On Jan. 8, lawyers for landowners gave Scarborough Community Council a blunt and public warning.
The present caps, and a restriction limiting developments north of Eglinton to 35 per cent until an east-west Golden Mile Boulevard is competed, will stop GMSP cold, they said.
“I’ll be definitive: It won’t happen,” said Adam Brown, representing KingSett, owners of Eglinton Square mall.
With the Crosstown Light-Rail-Transit line moving to completion, Golden Mile’s ripe for redevelopment, but Brown said the caps are set “extremely low.”...
Midtown Urbanist
Superstar
> Is in housing crisis
> Builds Transit
> Refuses to allow density near transit
City Planning folks.
> Builds Transit
> Refuses to allow density near transit
City Planning folks.
Richard White
Senior Member
The problem is the areas infrastructure cannot handle it. An area full of stores and factories is different than an area full of 50 story condos