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ARG1 said:
Check my join date, Idk what's been going on here prior to 2020. However, from what I've seen from people on social media and IRL, a lot of people have a much grander idea of what Eglinton is vs what it actually is - many genuinely think its a new subway line.
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You do know that "subway" is defined as an "underground electric railway"? Unless you're using a different dictionary.
 
ARG1 said:
The way its been sold to us is that "LRT are just surface subways". By distinguishing the LRT sections like this, its basically Metrolinx caving to the fact that these aren't just "Surface Subways"
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The whole surface subway is a false narrative to begin with. Subway is anything underground whether it's a train or a walkway. It's essentially an oxymoron when you put those 2 words together. The correct way it should've been marketed as is a surface METRO. Problem is us torontoians are such in love with the term subways that we don't realise in reality we are taking an underground metro.
 
W. K. Lis said:
You do know that "subway" is defined as an "underground electric railway"? Unless you're using a different dictionary.
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I know that's what it technically means, however idk why you're being pedantic about naming. Replace every instance of "subway" in my posts with "metro", the point remains the same.
 
Wow, I really didn't mean to start up the whole LRT vs. Streetcar debate. It was intended as a joke, albeit not very funny.
 
nfitz said:
Are you telling us that you are violating the forum's rules of not reading the posts in a thread without commenting?
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ARG1 said:
We're on Page 1394, regardless if I read or didn't read the thread at some point, I would've forgotten it by now.
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What @nfitz said was quite sour, expecting new users to read 1394 pages just to post in this thread? 🙄

Have some common sense and be the better person.
 
The Flexity Freedom cars are 30.8 m (65 ft 7 in) in length, and a width of 2.65 m (8 ft 8 in). Toronto Rocket subway cars are 23.190 m (76 ft 1 in) long and 3.124 m (10 ft 3 in) wide.

The New York City subway cars are in two different dimensions. "A" Division equipment is approximately 15.54 m (51 ft) in length, and 2.67 m (8 ft 9 in) wide. "B" Division cars, on the other hand, are about 3.05 m (10 ft) wide, and either 23.01 m (75 ft 6 in) or 18.44 m (60 ft 6 in) long. The PATH train cars are 16 m (51 ft) and 2.8 m (9.2 ft) wide.
 
W. K. Lis said:
The Flexity Freedom cars are 30.8 m (65 ft 7 in) in length, and a width of 2.65 m (8 ft 8 in). Toronto Rocket subway cars are 23.190 m (76 ft 1 in) long and 3.124 m (10 ft 3 in) wide.

The New York City subway cars are in two different dimensions. "A" Division equipment is approximately 15.54 m (51 ft) in length, and 2.67 m (8 ft 9 in) wide. "B" Division cars, on the other hand, are about 3.05 m (10 ft) wide, and either 23.01 m (75 ft 6 in) or 18.44 m (60 ft 6 in) long. The PATH train cars are 16 m (51 ft) and 2.8 m (9.2 ft) wide.
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The Flexity Freedom cars are also low floor which means a ton of space is being used up by bogeys, what is your point?
 
Transportfan said:
Looking to Kansas of all places for information on snow clearing for Toronto streetcars seems like looking to Brazil for information on how to prevent polar bear attacks.
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From President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil:

My best advice on preventing polar bear attacks is to burn down the Amazon rainforest. This way, carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere increase, causing ice floes to melt, drowning all the sweltering polar bears to extinction. Please ignore every single climate change scientist and ignore every pipsqueak who should be playing with dolls instead of wasting my time. They don't know anything. Even if I make the Earth uninhabitable, so be it. I must truly be a genius.
 
Transportfan said:
Looking to Kansas of all places for information on snow clearing for Toronto streetcars seems like looking to Brazil for information on how to prevent polar bear attacks.
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Well you don't see anyone getting attacked by polar bears in Brazil do you? Whatever they're doing must be working.

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This construction announcement found for Crosstown LRT...

TTC Line 1 Closures for Eglinton Crosstown LRT Construction Work - February 26-27, 2022​

From link.

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What Work Is Taking Place?​


TTC’s Line 1 subway will be closed between Sheppard-Yonge and St. Clair stations from Saturday February 26– Sunday February 27, 2022 to facilitate construction activities for the Eglinton Crosstown LRT, including platform extension and mechanical electrical works. Work will take place on a 24-hour basis from Saturday February 26– Sunday February 27, 2022. Berwick Avenue will remain open while this work takes place.
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Actually, the work is for Line 1's Eglinton platform. It's being extended.
 
Again, a lot of y'all are blowing this whole surface section way out of proportion. Toronto hasn't had a surface level metro before, this isn't a streetcar line like Spadina or St Clair where cars are able to drive on portions of the track + deal with surface level traffic lights.

Yes they'll have to live with traffic lights but the ECT is a dedicated lane from east to west.

The slow down will occur during the Golden Mile portion where stops are closely together, everything else will give the riders a subway feel.

ECT is completely different from a street car no matter how many similarities we can draw, it's going to operate much better and smoother than a streetcar
 
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