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I didn't get a response from either. Is that normal now? I always received a response from Councillors and Tory's office. What are other's experience?

Agreed. It could be way better but I choose the ride from Line 1 to Gunns over a Line 2 +bus which might be 5+ minutes faster

What I'm stating is that I haven't seen anywhere that clearly states the construction costs aside to the original contract. The other numbers are inferred and could be accurate and obviously much likely to be closer but I can't see anything that one could point to with certainty. As per "If you...

For the Finch line (and the others in the same table), you can't use their numbers to calculate cost/km. Check the notes for the table.

The numbers in the table are all in. They don't separate out the different costs. Check the asterisk notes.

For just construction costs: I found part of the VIVA extension at about $30 million/km in 2014 dollars - https://canada.constructconnect.com/dcn/news/others/2014/04/york-rapidlink-constructors-awarded-2605-million-vivanext-contract-dcn059977w-2 Construction cost for Finch was about $100...

For the Spadina Streetcar, I recently emailed the mayor and the local counselor Saxe about removing stops and closing intersections and.... got no response. I think there is enough public focus on the slow speed of our streetcars that now is the time to be able to remove some stops on Spadina...

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-united-states-needs-fewer-bus-stops/ TTC has done some stop 'controversial' consolidation in the past on the streetcar routes. Thought I'd post this article about stop removal for those who might be interested.

Cross-Posting with all the discussion of stop removals here: https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-united-states-needs-fewer-bus-stops/

I was only referring to the construction. I would guess it's also slower due to political interference (I have to have my stop!). The TTC would probably have preferred to rip everything out and run a bus.

TTC built fine on their own in the past. The most recent "debacles" of rebuilding St Clair to a ROW and building the YUS extension to Vaughan had political interference all over them. As a result of the political interference, the building of these projects were deemed a failure and we were told...

The Finch LRT construction contract was signed at about $100m/km (as reported on this site). The data in table 1 as per the asterisk looks like an all in cost.

Same, that's the only one I remember. I'm sure there would be some use other use cases on a lower ridership route but can't think of a good example.

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1DP8Du7CWL/ Bathurst streetcar looks great passing all those cars

Does this fit anywhere in Toronto?