[11th]

Trains are expected to run as often as every 5 minutes to every 3 minutes and 10 seconds at the busiest times, potentially even more frequently. That is plenty of time for cross traffic and left turns to be made.

A typical traffic signal cycle length for motorists ranges from 45 to 120 seconds, but can be as short as 30 seconds or as long as 180 seconds.

Keep in mind though eastbound and westbound trains will not always arrive at the same time to an intersection.
So technically, it will be in the range of every 2.5 - 5 minutes, and every 95 seconds to 190 seconds.

 

[Tunafish13]

It looks like the screens are live now, like they are showing actual train times. I drove along Eglinton recently and saw the numbers change as trains were approaching.

 

[nfitz]

It looks like the screens are live now, like they are showing actual train times. I drove along Eglinton recently and saw the numbers change as trains were approaching.

Without any specific knowledge, I'd think that means trial running has finally started.

 

[Amare]

It looks like the screens are live now, like they are showing actual train times. I drove along Eglinton recently and saw the numbers change as trains were approaching.

Screens have been live for a while now (past couple months actually). Sometimes they are accurate, other times they arent and depict times where vehicles dont actually arrive at the stop.

 

[dowlingm]

I don't think left turns should have been allowed anywhere on the above ground part of the Crosstown. Cars turning left will delay the trains/trams and encourage the city to give signal preference to vehicular traffic in order to clear the backlog of cars waiting to turn. Instead all cars should be forced to either go straight or turn right. Just like at Kingston Rd. and Midland, where if you're EB on Kingston and want to go north onto Midland you must first turn right Kelsonia Ave. and then onto Midland so that you cross Kington Rd. directly, see map https://maps.app.goo.gl/FrNWKjMeVtuQLh2q8

If all of Eglinton east is being terraformed into a new residential district this seems the perfect time to reconfigure the cross streets so that there are no left turns.

I don't think there is any practical way to forbid lefts at Leslie. With the CP bridge and the road bridge as constraints either side, I would have rather Sunnybrook Park had been built as a subgrade station (and the track between SP and Science Center in a cutting or cut/cover tunnel resulting in reduced grade change) but the construction impacts to road traffic on Eglinton at the CP bridge would have been fairly epic. Unfortunately the disjoin at Lawrence/Bayview/Bridle Path makes everything difficult.

 

[evandyk]

I heard reports this morning that the barriers to the stairs leading to the LRT at Eglinton Station are gone.

 

[PL1]

I heard reports this morning that the barriers to the stairs leading to the LRT at Eglinton Station are gone.

They were there yesterday afternoon. In fact, in recent months they had re-barricaded the ramp and stairs on the NW corner on Leslie and Eglinton. I'm running home later and will report on the status!

Edit: I misread your post as being about Eglinton and Leslie. I don't know how. My apologies.

 

[Cyrobyte]

Why isn't Eglinton station going to be renamed to Eglinton-Yonge? When line 2 opened, Bloor was renamed to Bloor-Yonge and when line 4 was opened, Sheppard was renamed to Sheppard-Yonge. Not renaming Eglinton is so inconsistent.

 

[T3G]

Consistency is overrated!

 

[robmausser]

I don't think there is any practical way to forbid lefts at Leslie. With the CP bridge and the road bridge as constraints either side, I would have rather Sunnybrook Park had been built as a subgrade station (and the track between SP and Science Center in a cutting or cut/cover tunnel resulting in reduced grade change) but the construction impacts to road traffic on Eglinton at the CP bridge would have been fairly epic. Unfortunately the disjoin at Lawrence/Bayview/Bridle Path makes everything difficult.

Ironically, lefts never had to be banned on Leslie nor interact with the LRT at all in any way. It could be accomplished with one of the simplest fixes in human history. One that is used everywhere around the world with LRT's already, but Toronto is completely blind to because "we do things best here" and we are the centre of the universe. This solution is so groundbreaking it will completely shock you to your core: have had the LRT leave the Laird tunnel to the south of Eglinton and move the street to where the LRT is in the centre. Then have the LRT continue on the south side of a shifted Eglinton until it goes under at Don Mills again.

This radical, mind blowing invention (for Toronto, elsewhere in the world its the norm) would have allowed Leslie to have an intersection that doesn't interfere with the LRT at all, because its a 3 way street that only goes north, and meant the entire segment from Laird to Don Mills could have been completely grade separated.

Unfortunately this would have meant doing things in a way that we don't do them in Toronto (streetcars run in the centre lane and thats the word of the gospel in Toronto gosh darnit!) which is something Toronto is incapable of doing because we love to look at our own reflection in Lake Ontario sooo much.

 

[christiesplits]

Two quick questions:

1. There were some discussions in 2023 about the Crosstown vehicles potentially bypassing Eglinton Station for the first few months due to geological issues. Has this been rectified? Is there any other Crosstown station, based on reports and photographs, that might require temporary bypassing?

2. Had the Crosstown been built as a fully underground "subway" with Toronto Rocket rolling stock, how much more would it have cost than the current $12.8 Billion budget?

 

[nfitz]

1. There were some discussions in 2023 about the Crosstown vehicles potentially bypassing Eglinton Station for the first few months due to geological issues

Where were these geology discussions that could open the line, but not this station? I've not seen that.

 

[PL1]

I heard reports this morning that the barriers to the stairs leading to the LRT at Eglinton Station are gone.

They were there yesterday afternoon. In fact, in recent months they had re-barricaded the ramp and stairs on the NW corner on Leslie and Eglinton. I'm running home later and will report on the status!

Still barricaded, though clearly there is a breach.

And North of the Eglinton bridge, too. Some year this completed infrastructure will be available for use. Probably when they transfer the Crosstown to the TTC

 

[nfitz]

What construction are they still doing there at the stairs to Leslie?

Also, where are there stairs at Eglinton station? There must be a ravine access location I don't know about.

 

[T3G]

Also, where are there stairs at Eglinton station? There must be a ravine access location I don't know about.

I assume stairs within the station to the LRT platform.