[micheal_can]

For opening day, they really should get a PCC and a CLRV on the line. Then the mural at Eglinton/Yonge will make sense.

 

[APTA-2048]

For opening day, they really should get a PCC and a CLRV on the line. Then the mural at Eglinton/Yonge will make sense.

Would be nice, but they are incompatible with this line, unfortunately.

 

[Richard White]

For opening day, they really should get a PCC and a CLRV on the line. Then the mural at Eglinton/Yonge will make sense.

That mural was originally designed for Dundas Station I believe but was transplanted to Eglinton West which was opening around the time the murals were being completed. It was supposed to match the ones at Queen and College before being relocated.

 

[Leo_Chan]

Would be nice, but they are incompatible with this line, unfortunately.

Is there enough clearance to put it on a flatbed car powered by a gasoline engine?

 

[micheal_can]

Would be nice, but they are incompatible with this line, unfortunately.

Is there enough clearance to put it on a flatbed car powered by a gasoline engine?

I think it has to do with the track gauge.

 

[KevinT]

I think it has to do with the track gauge.

Voltage too, Crosstown is likely to be 750 volts DC like ION, whereas TTC IS 600.

 

[robmausser]

For opening day, they really should get a PCC and a CLRV on the line. Then the mural at Eglinton/Yonge will make sense.

Metrolinx and TTC are REALLY trying everything they can do to show that LRTs are NOT streetcars. So this would be an epic fail in terms of framing public opinion, optics, marketing, etc.

 

[micheal_can]

Metrolinx and TTC are REALLY trying everything they can do to show that LRTs are NOT streetcars. So this would be an epic fail in terms of framing public opinion, optics, marketing, etc.

Is there really much of a difference?

 

[nfitz]

Is there really much of a difference?

Only in the perception of the punters. The key difference being that you can't drive your car along the streetcar tracks on Eglinton East, and it's exclusively grade-separated on Eglinton West (heck, and almost all of Eglinton East west of Aga Khan Park).

Other than that oddball crossing at Leslie, there's only 5.5 km of the 19 km line from the portal near Aga Khan Park to the portal at Ionview that's conventional at-grade mid-street LRT. And maybe an entrance to the old IBM facility at Science Centre station - I'm not sure what the final design there is (I'd hope they'd move the entrance east of the portal - but that would make too much sense ...)

 

[Leo_Chan]

I think it has to do with the track gauge.

I know TTC gauge is different from standard gauge. What I was asking was whether the tunnels have enough clearance for a streetcar with pole down to be placed on a standard flatbed car, and be towed around by a work car.

 

[robmausser]

Is there really much of a difference?

Ouch https://globalnews.ca/news/4527200/scott-thompson-hamilton-lrt-debate-2/

If you can’t decipher between an streetcar and LRT, you’re not qualified for the discussion.

And it’s not like the information isn’t easily available.

 

[torontopeter]

For opening day, they really should get a PCC

Please no.

 

[Steve X]

Ouch https://globalnews.ca/news/4527200/scott-thompson-hamilton-lrt-debate-2/

They are two (or more) streetcars stung together. It's the infrastructure build for it. The Hamilton LRT lines are really borderline Streetcar/LRT

 

[SaugeenJunction]

For opening day, they really should get a PCC and a CLRV on the line. Then the mural at Eglinton/Yonge will make sense.

Nice idea, but they are different gauges.

 

[Monarch Butterfly]

Nice idea, but they are different gauges.

The bogies (where the wheels are) can be changed to fit the gauges. Like when the TTC got its used PCC streetcars, they changed the gauges.