[CapitalSeven]

Who's going to want to hang out in that park over the portal? OnlyRAILFans? /s

It looks as though the portal plateau park will be directly accessible from the massive podium below those three towers. If so it will be a nice sunny spot in the mornings with afternoon shade. A thousand people living in the tiny box apartments will be glad of it. Any they get to watch the trains, yes.

 

[Towered]

Who's going to want to hang out in that park over the portal? OnlyRAILFans? /s

Anyway, hopefully it will connect to a future redevelopment on the south side, so that the tracks can be crossed without all the Pape Ave switchbacks.

My train obsessed boy, for one

 

[kotsy]

The last remaining bits of the shopping centre are now demolished:

 

[kotsy]

 

[Aplus23]

Is this going to be a TOC, why was so much space needed.

 

[kotsy]

Is this going to be a TOC, why was so much space needed.

It's a tbm launch site and eventual portal. But yes, TOC will come after. Look at the renders in the database file.

 

[Monarch Butterfly]

They should extend the streetcar tracks on Dundas Street East from Broadview Avenue to Carlaw Avenue, then north to the Gerrard Station. Would help with the streetcar congestion at Broadview Station. Where would the Broadview streetcar to the Port Lands originate from?

 

[StreetcarRider]

They should extend the streetcar tracks on Dundas Street East from Broadview Avenue to Carlaw Avenue, then north to the Gerrard Station. Would help with the streetcar congestion at Broadview Station. Where would the Broadview streetcar to the Port Lands originate from?

This idea, and/or tracks on Carlaw between Queen & Gerrard. All the east-end streetcars cross or use Broadview. Would be great to make an on-street, turnaround loop involving Carlaw and connecting to OL for diversions, short-turns, congestion, etc. Carlaw is pretty dense too.

Plus, the pizza slice of land south of Gerrard and east of Carlaw could fit a streetcar or two,.off the street grid.

 

[stapler]

Given how narrow Dundas is east of Broadview, I think they’re more likely for a rerouted 504 to jog north on Broadview and then head east on the existing tracks at Gerrard, and then either terminate at the new Gerrard station or end at a loop installed the lands south on Carlaw (which metrolinx now owns; the Gerrard / Carlaw South property)

 

[Monarch Butterfly]

Given how narrow Dundas is east of Broadview, I think they’re more likely for a rerouted 504 to jog north on Broadview and then head east on the existing tracks at Gerrard, and then either terminate at the new Gerrard station or end at a loop installed the lands south on Carlaw (which metrolinx now owns; the Gerrard / Carlaw South property)

If Europe can and does run trams (AKA streetcars ) on their narrow streets, so can Toronto. Of course, Europe bans on-street parking, that would upset the suburban motorists who need to stop their oversized SUV somewhere to get their coffee and everything bagel.