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Monarch Butterfly said:
The light rail trains are stored at Mount Dennis Maintenance and Storage Facility in the west end. Unlike legacy streetcar network with 3 (soon to be 4) streetcar yards, there is currently only one place to store them overnight. Currently.

The city is trying to build the Eglinton East LRT from Kennedy Station to Morningside/Sheppard. Will there be a light rail track connection between the Eglinton LRT Line 5 and the Egltinton East LRT, since the two will likely be separate light rail lines? Nothing written down in stone, yet. So, it will be decades before there would be a light rail storage facility in the east end.

Now the bad news. The "preferred" maintenance and storage facility location is near the Toronto Zoo.
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(Think taking the GO train from Kennedy GO, Eglington GO, or Guildwood GO would be faster to get downtown.)
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I hope this BS doesn't get built.

The only thing that would make this project good is if is elevated/underground.
 
6ixGod said:
This same nonsense was spouted over at the Finch West topic too for weeks before the opening and within 48 hours we knew what a failure that was. We had joggers.beating the trams from end to end.
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The first few weeks didn't go well, with them no able to meet the 46-minute initial schedule. Though now they are changing it to a 44-minute schedule. It will be interesting to see if the train jogger will try it again after the line fully opens.

EllaW said:
I just checked the various trips I take along and near Eglinton on a regular basis on google maps and it still never shows the Line 5 as being the fastest route except for one of the longest trips (and well into the tunneled part). Despite living very near this line and having shopping, daycare, family, and medical appts along this line, there’s still going to be no real reason for me to use it except for being more comfortable. I really hope they can do something to speed it up — this is such a disappointment.
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Interesting - do you have some examples?

I was pleasantly surprised at the personal trips I checked, even into Scarborough. Is it because there's a significant increase in walking distances?

I did notice that Triplinx was giving some bizarrely long walking distances in all sorts of spots, for example having you walk miles around Mount Dennis and Kennedy stations on service roads, to just get to the front door of the station!
 
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Bundle up, peeps.

If trains get taken out of service tomorrow on the east side it'll be a cold one.

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Monarch Butterfly said:
The light rail trains are stored at Mount Dennis Maintenance and Storage Facility in the west end. Unlike legacy streetcar network with 3 (soon to be 4) streetcar yards, there is currently only one place to store them overnight. Currently.

The city is trying to build the Eglinton East LRT from Kennedy Station to Morningside/Sheppard. Will there be a light rail track connection between the Eglinton LRT Line 5 and the Egltinton East LRT, since the two will likely be separate light rail lines? Nothing written down in stone, yet. So, it will be decades before there would be a light rail storage facility in the east end.

Now the bad news. The "preferred" maintenance and storage facility location is near the Toronto Zoo.
View attachment 713387
From https://www.toronto.ca/services-payments/streets-parking-transportation/transit-in-toronto/transit-expansion/eglinton-east-light-rail-transit/eglinton-east-lrt-project-map/

(Think taking the GO train from Kennedy GO, Eglington GO, or Guildwood GO would be faster to get downtown.)
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If I were looking at Toronto from Mars, I’d say: extend Line 4 with two branches — one to Malvern and one to the Toronto Zoo. I’d also push to extend Line 5 to Eglinton GO (even acknowledging why that’s now difficult). Let the LRT handle the in-between, though I’m not convinced it would perform any better than Line 6 does today.
 
Monarch Butterfly said:
The light rail trains are stored at Mount Dennis Maintenance and Storage Facility in the west end. Unlike legacy streetcar network with 3 (soon to be 4) streetcar yards, there is currently only one place to store them overnight. Currently.

The city is trying to build the Eglinton East LRT from Kennedy Station to Morningside/Sheppard. Will there be a light rail track connection between the Eglinton LRT Line 5 and the Egltinton East LRT, since the two will likely be separate light rail lines? Nothing written down in stone, yet. So, it will be decades before there would be a light rail storage facility in the east end.

Now the bad news. The "preferred" maintenance and storage facility location is near the Toronto Zoo.
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From https://www.toronto.ca/services-payments/streets-parking-transportation/transit-in-toronto/transit-expansion/eglinton-east-light-rail-transit/eglinton-east-lrt-project-map/

(Think taking the GO train from Kennedy GO, Eglington GO, or Guildwood GO would be faster to get downtown.)
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Line 7 needs to be scrapped at all costs
 
goodcitywhenfinished said:
Line 7 needs to be scrapped at all costs
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Scrapped? Does it even exist? It isn't even on the future transit plans on the Metrolinx website. If Metrolinx isn't building it then the likelihood of it happening seems remote. The city's money should be tied up in the Waterfront East LRT.
 
Has anyone seen any action on the line today??? While in the Mount Denise area I saw zero action in the 30 minutes I was there. The yard was full with nothing been moved.

I also noticed the north end of the NO Frills parking lot that is now a pay parking area by your phone with no price to park there. I guess is for Line 5 riders like TTC parking lots.
 
Leo_Chan said:
If Don Valley Station does get service and they have the will to close the Leslie intersection, then potentially it can get infinite signal priority, where left turns from eastbound and southbound can be closed off. 🤣
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I take extreme offence to this constant ridiculing/berating of residents on Leslie.

I've only lived here for over twenty years, and so many on this forum are ready to punish us because of politicians' planning errors, ie. neglecting the South-side alignment.

Just saying, let's then close off the passageway between the two Spadinas since the TTC neglected to maintain the moving sidewalk.

People can always change at St. George...
 
Richard White said:
While I understand the public wants someone's head on a pike, if they have a public inquiry it affects ALOT of people, not just current politicians but those from the past decade or more. The complexity of any inquiry would pale in comparison to anything held before.

Liberals, PC they are all tied to this debacle with Dalton McGuinty launching it in 2011. Yes Doug Ford had the most recent hand in things but that does not mean he was the only one.

Having a public inquiry could do alot more harm than good and I can see why people want to quash the idea.
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Harm for who exactly Richard?
 
jordanmkasla2009 said:
as I just posted above, even if all the above you claim is true, that 31 minute difference in scheduled travel time is clearly going to make the LRT the better option to get across the city on Eglinton.
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Nobody was ever taking buses from Mount Dennis to Kennedy, the ACTUAL comparison has always been against using Line 2 + bus/GO or UP Express. The fastest of these combos comes in at 45 minutes (UPX+Line 2).
So for 15 years and enough money to fill Lake Ontario we got a line that will run about 20% slower than existing services end-to-end.
 
jmi22 said:
Harm for who exactly Richard?
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The taxpayer. It is throwing money and focus at the past when there are so many things we could be focusing on now. We could have a public inquiry on the Ontario Science Centre before it it torn down and moved for example. We could focus on building new things. We could say, the opposition could say "we will let you off the hook for a public inquiry for Eglinton and Finch, but the money needs to go to improving the quality of the East Harbour station :) .
 
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