ComptoirGeneral
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I wonder if it's possible for them to link up the 511 streetcard loop to the Dufferin loop. Seems like bridging that last mile would be a good redundancy in the network.
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generalcanada
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May I introduce you to the shelved Waterfront West LRT?
TossYourJacket
Senior Member
A link from Dufferin to Exhibition has been in various plans over the years. It's currently tied to the replacement of the bridge on Dufferin. Overall it's part of the Waterfront West streetcar plan that is sorta dead rn so they might replace the bridge but not add the tracks when they do it (but the bridge would be built to accommodate adding them later), it's not great. Personally, I'd like to see the tracks built when the bridge is replaced, and the junction for the tracks to go further West future-proofed in south of the bridge, even if the junction is only used as a turn in one direction for a few years. Better than ripping it all up again later.
Operationally though, I'd say it's more likely the 504 gets extended to Exhibition than the 511 goes to Dufferin Gate loop as that would allow the 504 to serve the GO/OL station. Ideally, we'd also move the Exhibition Loop to be closer to the station as it's sort of an annoyingly long walk rn in terms of transfers.
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ComptoirGeneral
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I wish the city would stop these piecemeal improvement projects. Like if we know we want streetcar service on the bridge eventually, can we not just lay the track now? Instead of tearing up the bridge twice
fanoftoronto
Senior Member
Metrolinx when designing a parking garage:
Metrolinx when designing Union Station 2.0:
It's just pathetic that a parking garage with ~1,500 spaces has more flair than a multi-modal transit hub expected to service 10s of thousands of people. Metrolinx needs to be gutted and a proper politics removed organisation needs to replace it.
Metrolinx when designing Union Station 2.0:
It's just pathetic that a parking garage with ~1,500 spaces has more flair than a multi-modal transit hub expected to service 10s of thousands of people. Metrolinx needs to be gutted and a proper politics removed organisation needs to replace it.
innsertnamehere
Superstar
I must remind you it's not Metrolinx at the helm here. It's the City of Toronto who is holding the purse strings here (Metrolinx is simply building it for them) - and they have a fixed budget in a rapidly escalating cost environment. I can almost guarantee you it's the City that is driving the value engineering, not Metrolinx.
Metrolinx when set in charge of a major transit station is building Exhibition GO..
The problem here is that the City of Toronto was told to go build 6 GO stations in like 2017. They did their typical waffling and decade of consultation, 200 rounds of design revisions.. and what, look at that, their fixed cost envelope is blown out of the water! They have now cut it down to 4 stations and value engineered the hell out of those stations that remain to try to deliver something..