[Sunnyside]

The difference is that NYCC is also an important employment centre in itself and is also located within one of the most desirable and central areas of the city.

Golden Mile has far less employment, is not as central, will be a significantly longer transit ride to downtown, and is in a far less desirable area of the city.

No doubt the Golden Mile will slowly buildout, and I'm sure many of the landowners will start construction on their first phases soonish.. but the densities contemplated are remarkable.

As a comparator.. NYCC currently has around 28,000 residential units between the 401 and the Finch Hydro Corridor, according to census data. Golden Mile is, through active applications, at about 53,000. So literally double the density. It's reasonable to be skeptical.

Yeah, I don’t want to misconstrue what I think about the plan itself; this is a lot of density. But we have never been good at doing things in moderation, as that conceptual massing from the city vs. the iso model of active apps showed.

I wonder if the developers ‘want’ to build this much here, or simply have to, for various other reasons. If the latter, it’ll be a slow buildout for sure.

 

[smallspy]

I'm sure that many people have noticed that there have been far fewer trains operating over the past two weeks.

Early into this current set of training classes, the signal system failed pretty badly. And since then, it has not been able to operate with any semblance of reliability.

The second set of classes is wrapping up now, but with far less throttle time than they need. They will need to come back to complete those portions of their training once the third set of classes wraps up in late December.

This has been such a concern inside the TTC that they don't think that they can start the service demonstration - the two board periods of operation without paying passengers - in January.

Dan

 

[Bojaxs]

What exactly did you think the fate of the Scarborough RT was? Because I see zero parallels whatsoever.

The Eglington LRT will at some point be replaced with a subway just like the Scarborough RT was.

 

[stevedean]

The Eglington LRT will at some point be replaced with a subway just like the Scarborough RT was.

That's some wishful/wildly speculative thinking there.

 

[cplchanb]

I'm sure that many people have noticed that there have been far fewer trains operating over the past two weeks.

Early into this current set of training classes, the signal system failed pretty badly. And since then, it has not been able to operate with any semblance of reliability.

The second set of classes is wrapping up now, but with far less throttle time than they need. They will need to come back to complete those portions of their training once the third set of classes wraps up in late December.

This has been such a concern inside the TTC that they don't think that they can start the service demonstration - the two board periods of operation without paying passengers - in January.

Dan

geeezus.... another failure in software...didnt they work out the bugs in patch 8 or whatever the latest one was??? this is probably going to cost another quarter of the calendar to fix.

 

[cplchanb]

The Eglington LRT will at some point be replaced with a subway just like the Scarborough RT was.

honestly we'll all be dead or in palliative care before that happens

 

[Bojaxs]

That's some wishful/wildly speculative thinking there.

Considering construction had already begun on an Eglington subway and was cancelled, it's not as "wishful" as you may think.

 

[stevedean]

Considering construction had already begun on an Eglington subway and was cancelled, it's not as "wishful" as you may think.

really not sure what point you're trying to make here... that was a plan that was started and then stopped.
The current Crosstown is technically a "subway" for 10 of the 20kms. And the Western extension is also mostly underground.
Are you suggesting they will tunnel the eastern section? Or update the tunnels to allow heavy rail vehicles...
Honestly I don't think you have any idea of how ridiculous that proposal would be at this point.

 

[T3G]

The Eglington LRT will at some point be replaced with a subway just like the Scarborough RT was.

It absolutely will not. The SRT wouldn't have been, either, had the system not been built as a stump line along a fairly dubious alignment using proprietary technology.

 

[nfitz]

Considering construction had already begun on an Eglington subway and was cancelled, it's not as "wishful" as you may think.

That piece is subway now. I wouldn't be surprised if there's a grade separation at Leslie in the future.

 

[drum118]

That piece is subway now. I wouldn't be surprised if there's a grade separation at Leslie in the future.

How do you see it happening??

 

[nfitz]

How do you see it happening??

By adding a lane to the north side of the tracks.

Cars that would turn northbound on Leslie from eastbound on Eglinton would cross over to the north side, between Brentcliffe and the portal. Cars turning from southbound Leslie to eastbound Eglinton would stay in that single lane on the northbound, and then merge into the rest of the traffic at the portal west of Don Mills Road.

The biggest challenge would be widening the underpass under the CPKC mainline.

Alternatively, one could take advantage the topography there, and build a road tunnel through the fill that Eglinton is built on, and connect the lanes to Leslie on the south side. The existing fill looks to be about 14-metres thick at the intersection,

 

[ThenWhat]

By adding a lane to the north side of the tracks.

Cars that would turn northbound on Leslie from eastbound on Eglinton would cross over to the north side, between Brentcliffe and the portal. Cars turning from southbound Leslie to eastbound Eglinton would stay in that single lane on the northbound, and then merge into the rest of the traffic at the portal west of Don Mills Road.

The biggest challenge would be widening the underpass under the CPKC mainline.

Alternatively, one could take advantage the topography there, and build a road tunnel through the fill that Eglinton is built on, and connect the lanes to Leslie on the south side. The existing fill looks to be about 14-metres thick at the intersection,

That would make good sense. Was it considered in LRT planning stages, does anybody know? It should have been obvious then that the current design would create a major traffic bottleneck.

 

[PL1]

That would make good sense. Was it considered in LRT planning stages, does anybody know? It should have been obvious then that the current design would create a major traffic bottleneck.

The design team forgot to check their designs with the UT crew. A south alignment until Don Mills would have been better

 

[innsertnamehere]

That would make good sense. Was it considered in LRT planning stages, does anybody know? It should have been obvious then that the current design would create a major traffic bottleneck.

A lot of pundits tried to encourage the LRT ROW to run on the south side of the road between Brentcliffe and Don Mills to avoid the signalized intersection at the time. For whatever reason, metrolinx did not head that recommendation.

I think if the Crosstown were to be designed today it probably would have been elevated between Brentcliffe and Don Mills like the western extension is over Jane - but that ship has long, long since sailed. It is what it is at this point.