[EastYorkTTCFan]

I was at Kennedy Station this afternoon and they have taken down the barricades in front of the of the doors leading to the line 5 part of the station.

 

[thettctransitfanatic]

I was at Kennedy Station this afternoon and they have taken down the barricades in front of the of the doors leading to the line 5 part of the station.View attachment 713524View attachment 713525

I assume those ''No Public Access'' signs are gonna come down tomorrow

 

[Midtown Urbanist]

like 3 mins of savings for my trip. Hope it gets better in time.

I am not going to lament too much about this because the underground portion will feel like a subway-metro experience compared to the bus, but I feel like people are not factoring wait times at stations.

The Eglinton buses arrived every 30 seconds at peak through Midtown as routes converged, and was there every other minute during off-peak. Through all my years living along Eglinton, I never once checked the app to see when the next bus was coming except for when extreme bunching occurred (rows of 7-8 buses bunched together resulting in long wait times).

This will not be the case with the Crosstown, as the headways will be much longer between trains. From always having a bus at my door, to having to wait 6-8 minutes at stations for the next LRT, will arguably be a downgrade on this one aspect of traveling. The comfort and experience, saved time through the tunneled portion, and hopefully reliability of the line will hopefully more than make up for the lost minutes waiting for the LRT to arrive.

 

[hw621]

I was at Kennedy Station this afternoon and they have taken down the barricades in front of the of the doors leading to the line 5 part of the station.View attachment 713524View attachment 713525

Looks like a trap...

 

[Obsidian]

It's probably warmer on Mars than here right now

Warm summer days at the Equator on Mars get up to 20C btw

 

[81-717]

Warm summer days at the Equator on Mars get up to 20C btw

Somehow even Canada managed to do it in February. Just not here, even though we could use some of that warmth right now.

 

[nightstreak]

I was at Kennedy Station this afternoon and they have taken down the barricades in front of the of the doors leading to the line 5 part of the station.View attachment 713524View attachment 713525

Why do these brand new doors look like they were installed in 2015... oh wait.

 

[ARG1]

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.)

Considering that the main reason its now a separate line is that they don't want to extend the tunnel east of Kennedy, I don't know if there is a reasonable way to connect the two segments without building a weird junction at the Kennedy portal to let some trains continue travelling east along Eglinton on the surface.

 

[youngblood]

Merry Christmas Eve everyone. Can’t wait to see pictures and hear about everyone’s experiences tomorrow

 

[A 6264]

It has been announced that Line 5 will be free all day tomorrow. Does that mean there will be a barrier between the line, and the rest of the system, that we will have to go through at transfer stations? If so, will washrooms be within the free area, or will we have to pay to get to that part of the station?

 

[11th]

It has been announced that Line 5 will be free all day tomorrow. Does that mean there will be a barrier between the line, and the rest of the system, that we will have to go through at transfer stations? If so, will washrooms be within the free area, or will we have to pay to get to that part of the station?

You'll need proof of payment on all other lines/routes. Same as usual.

 

[EastYorkTTCFan]

Why do these brand new doors look like they were installed in 2015... oh wait.

Probably closer to 2020, as they hadn't even started work on Kennedy until 2019. I remember being at a doors open event at the yard for the crostwon in May of 2019, and they were saying that it would be opening in September of 2019, and they had already started work on the satoons at that point, and the east end was still just starting construction.

 

[81-717]

Does that mean there will be a barrier between the line, and the rest of the system, that we will have to go through at transfer stations?

Been wondering the same thing.

You'll need proof of payment on all other lines/routes. Same as usual.

So will there be temporary barriers / fare gates at transfer points that will otherwise both be inside the paid area? How would those transferring from line 5 to line 1/2 pay their fare?

I’ll be following along from my couch at home.

Seconded (except I'll be at the gym, which requires line 2 rather than line 5, hoping it won't be another shitshow of signal issues).

 

[ARG1]

So will there be temporary barriers / fare gates at transfer points that will otherwise both be inside the paid area? How would those transferring from line 5 to line 1/2 pay their fare?

There was no such thing for Finch West, you were able to get onto Line 1 barrier free.

 

[thettctransitfanatic]

Why do these brand new doors look like they were installed in 2015... oh wait.

Cedarvale has the same doors as well. And I really think it only exists cause Metrolinx wanted to make it clear that Line 5 was their property, even if it's a TTC line, and make it ''seperate'' from Line 1/2.