[MisterF]

If there's any corridor in Toronto that's deserving of full and complete grade-separated rapid transit from end to end, start to finish, it's Eglinton. The Eglinton segment of the Mississauga Transitway is the standard bearer of what should be emulated and replicated throughout the Etobicoke and Scarborough segments of the Crosstown Line. Anything less is just limiting the true potential of the Crosstown for generations to come.

To me what's most important is that the trains operate completely independently of car traffic. This can be done with LRT lines that are mostly at grade, like in Edmonton for example.

 

[Monarch Butterfly]

You have until 12 p.m. (noon) December 4, 2017 to complete the Online Survey at http://www.eglintonwestlrt.ca/
The direct link to the survey is at this link.

 

[Midtown Urbanist]

You have until 12 p.m. (noon) December 4, 2017 to complete the Online Survey at http://www.eglintonwestlrt.ca/
The direct link to the survey is at this link.

Filled it out. Suggested expropriation of the townhouses and using the Richview Corridor for elevated, for all the good that suggestion is.

 

[Steve X]

If they can't dig under Martin Grove and Eglinton easily cause of the Enbridge gasline, why don't they consider building even taller hydro towers that can allow the station to be elevated. Problem solved. Can't let the Hydro companies preventing structures under hydro corridors anymore if this city is going to grow.

 

[BurlOak]

If they can't dig under Martin Grove and Eglinton easily cause of the Enbridge gasline, why don't they consider building even taller hydro towers that can allow the station to be elevated. Problem solved. Can't let the Hydro companies preventing structures under hydro corridors anymore if this city is going to grow.

There are many ways to proceed (Lower Eglinton, raise the hydro lines, put some type of insulator between LRT power and hydro lines, use track level rail to have greater separation between transit power and hydro lines, duck the LRT under the intersection), but the problem is that there is likely a large group in City Planning that thinks at-grade median operation is better than grade-separated. It's not a question of what is technically achievable, or what the cost - they want to create a future Queen Street and not a rapid transit corridor.

 

[Monarch Butterfly]

They buried the hydro lines east of the Humber River when they constructed the Gardiner Expressway. They can bury the hydro lines in the Kipling & Eglinton intersection.

The bridge is at the now demolished Sunnyside railway station at Roncesvalles and Lake Shore.

 

[BMO]

Filled it out. Suggested expropriation of the townhouses and using the Richview Corridor for elevated, for all the good that suggestion is.

This would never fly. Those townhouses were just built in the past two or three years. It's a political non-starter

 

[Midtown Urbanist]

This would never fly. Those townhouses were just built in the past two or three years. It's a political non-starter

Says who?

Just blame Doug Ford, since he is back in the public spotlight.

 

[sixrings]

This would never fly. Those townhouses were just built in the past two or three years. It's a political non-starter

Not everyone votes but I'm confident millionaire home owners who have their homes taken away shortly after moving in will be motivated to get to the polls. You are correct that this is a non starter similar to elevated subway in Scarborough.

 

[maxt797]

Whats the status on surface level progress east of Don Mills? When do we expect to see first track?

 

[denfromoakvillemilton]

Not everyone votes but I'm confident millionaire home owners who have their homes taken away shortly after moving in will be motivated to get to the polls. You are correct that this is a non starter similar to elevated subway in Scarborough.

Scarborough would be fine with elevated subway. If you position it as elevated or nothing, then they'll take elevated.

 

[sixrings]

Scarborough would be fine with elevated subway. If you position it as elevated or nothing, then they'll take elevated.

If people universally thought that was true then elevated would have been proposed from the very beginning. Anyways on this topic I don't think that the government can suggest buying back homes which were just built and sold without public backlash

 

[drum118]

Dec 02
Eglinton & Yonge

 

[TransitBart]

If they can't dig under Martin Grove and Eglinton easily cause of the Enbridge gasline, why don't they consider building even taller hydro towers that can allow the station to be elevated. Problem solved. Can't let the Hydro companies preventing structures under hydro corridors anymore if this city is going to grow.

Hydro can go under if LRT goes over...

 

[TransitBart]

Dec 02
Eglinton & Yonge

Imagine future interchange station construction....

Finch West - Line 1 / Line 7

Osgoode - Line 1 / Line 3

Queen - Line 1 / Line 3

Pape - Line 2 / Line 3

Science Centre - Line 3 / Line 5

Don Mills - Line 4 / Line 3

Finch - Line 1 / Line 7

Sheppard West - Line 4 / Line 1

Sheppard/McCowan Road - Line 4 / Line 2

Pearson Airport - Line 5 / Line 7

All my life - only three white dots with three little white circles on the map...then Kennedy to SRT, then Sheppard-Yonge. And finally three more under construction now - Cedarvale, Eglinton, and Kennedy.

Boy, we’d almost have a network going at that point...Line 1 is under going track reconstruction at Summerhill this weekend. No bother, I’ll take Line 1 up to Cedarvale from Union and then head back to Eglinton. Shuttle bus...what dat?

Think of the GO interchanges on top of this...Caledonia, Mount Dennis, Landsdowne, Front/Spadina, Gerrard Square, St Clair/Stockyards/512

Remember, I did say “imagine”...