Are y'all joking or do you not know the plans for East Harbour?

(I have no idea if this is the latest rendering, just sharing the first thing I found). I bet CF has cheapened it to a stack of warehouses by now.

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Aplus23 said:
East harbour really is in the middle of no where at the moment. A streetcar into the Portlands should definitely be introduced.
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It's only a short walk up Broadview to the existing 501, 503, and 504 streetcars from the station. Also the subway line intersects the 501, 503, and 506 streetcars at the previous two stations, and further west intersects the 503 streetcar, the 504 streetcar (thrice), the 501 streetcar (4 times), the 509, 510, and 511 streetcars (twice).

Also the are literally designing a streetcar stop under East Harbour station on Broadview Avenue.

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Aplus23 said:
East harbour really is in the middle of no where at the moment. A streetcar into the Portlands should definitely be introduced.
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A LRT is planned to go from the Transit Hub with a Broadview Avenue Extension, down through the East Harbour District, into the McCleary District, through Media City, and over the channel, and then loop back.

I'm unsure whether or not these plans have changed and I don't believe it is funded yet either, since it's so early in development.

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Aplus23 said:
East harbour really is in the middle of no where at the moment. A streetcar into the Portlands should definitely be introduced.
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I believe the current plan is for East Harbour Station to be connected to the proposed Broadview Streetcar. If the TTC decides to split the 501 like they did the 504 it honestly should be the eastern terminus of the western branch (let's call it the 501A), instead of the current proposal to terminate it at a new loop new Broadview & Queen. Having passed through that intersection a bunch many years ago it was an awful intersection with the 3 routes that currently run through it. The current proposal sounds like a traffic nightmare since with a split 501, that intersection would have 5 separate streetcar lines passing through it (the 501B, 503, 504, 508, and the Broadview) so terminating a sixth route there is insane to me (also there will literally be a subway and GO station just down the street so why wouldn't you just go there?)
 
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JSF-1 said:
I believe the current plan is for East Harbour Station to be connected to the proposed Broadview Streetcar. If the TTC decides to split the 501 like they did the 504 it honestly should be the eastern terminus of the western branch (let's call it the 501A), instead of the current proposal to terminate it at a new loop new Broadview & Queen. Having passed through that intersection a bunch many years ago it was an awful intersection with the 3 routes that currently run through it. The current proposal sounds like a traffic nightmare since with a split 501, that intersection would have 5 separate streetcar lines passing through it (the 501B, 503, 504, 508, and the Broadview) so terminating a sixth route there is insane to me (also there will literally be a subway and GO station just down the street so why wouldn't you just go there?)
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It will be interesting to see how a Broadview car is routed if TTC want Broadview Station to only handle two routes. It may be that it will replace 504, which would eliminate some turning movements at Queen and Broadview. How much 503 would have to step up to compensate would depend on how Ontario Line had changed commuter flows in the city centre generally.

For me the important thing is the service track along Commissioners to Leslie Barns, so that out of service cars can route that way as well as via Queen - although it would have been even better to have had it in place before all the work on the Queen Street GO/OL bridge.
 
kotsy said:
East Harbour Transit Hub/Eastern Bridge rebuild:

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The thing I really love about this photo is that it gives perspective on the entire East Harbour District, most of the McCleary District just across the road in the upper image, and then Pinewood Studios way in the distance (one of the buildings on their lot is that curved roof). It gives a really good idea of just how much land there is there around this Transit Hub that is going to be developed and served by this.
 
GameOnBrad said:
The thing I really love about this photo is that it gives perspective on the entire East Harbour District, most of the McCleary District just across the road in the upper image, and then Pinewood Studios way in the distance (one of the buildings on their lot is that curved roof). It gives a really good idea of just how much land there is there around this Transit Hub that is going to be developed and served by this.
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It also instructs on the point.....how are that many additional people going to get around on a downtown street grid that is already car saturated?
(Hint: a 401 tunnel ain't gonna help )
The need for transit, a lot of it, is unavoidable.

- Paul
 
crs1026 said:
It also instructs on the point.....how are that many additional people going to get around on a downtown street grid that is already car saturated?
(Hint: a 401 tunnel ain't gonna help )
The need for transit, a lot of it, is unavoidable.

- Paul
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And the need for political change so all of those transit issues that make so much sense to UT to foster faster, more efficient, more frequent transit services can be implemented - like transit priority, like separated right of way (where feasible). separated bike lanes etc. etc. etc. Or we risk building more of the same.
 
max said:
I'm a bit confused as I thought they were using the excavations of the entrances to create the underground cavern (as this isn't Star Trek and you can't teleport underground) therefore at least one "entrance" would be connected to the cavern.

Does this just mean that the holes on the north and south side of Bathurst are connected connected through the cavern now?
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The North Entrance site was used as the entrance to create the cavern. this video shows that the cavern is now connected to the South Entrance site
 
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