steveintoronto
Superstar
^The "cycle superhighway" was on my mind, but there are other ways of establishing that w/o wasting the present alignment as a rail corridor. It might be flood prone, but it's still too valuable to pass-up as a peak express route to Union. I see the real limitation not so much the flooding, but double tracking that stretch. VIA HFR if built as touted will also be sharing that corridor, so it remains valuable for other rail uses too. With a tunnelled alignment going up Don Mills (or thereabouts) there's no reason to use it except for peak.
York Region really is getting 'catered to'...they're going to have to step-up and contribute on this unless the province decides to declare this a Metrolinx build (southern leg too) as well as design. In fact, I see it being DBFOM, the demand is so high, so York will have to brace for private enterprise running the show. As with SSE (although RL makes perfect sense) there's really not the funds to build without starving other badly needed transit projects.
I suspect a private consortium will make an offer to build this, and perhaps more at the same time (HFR), or at least a GTHA section of it.
York Region really is getting 'catered to'...they're going to have to step-up and contribute on this unless the province decides to declare this a Metrolinx build (southern leg too) as well as design. In fact, I see it being DBFOM, the demand is so high, so York will have to brace for private enterprise running the show. As with SSE (although RL makes perfect sense) there's really not the funds to build without starving other badly needed transit projects.
I suspect a private consortium will make an offer to build this, and perhaps more at the same time (HFR), or at least a GTHA section of it.
