allengeorge
Senior Member
I’d like to understand why those 4 Councillors voted against the motion.
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Finch West Line 6 LRT
- Thread starter W. K. Lis
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TRONto
Active Member
TRONto
Active Member
Really excited that this is moving forward. Such an easy win.
allengeorge
Senior Member
Is it actually moving forward though? Metrolinx has to agree to it, the funding has to come from somewhere...
Allandale25
Senior Member
TRONto
Active Member
Of course they will. Mikey just calls up his uncle and it's done. Doug Ford was a big supporter of the Woodbine Live project. I'd be surprised if this ask got shot down.
allengeorge
Senior Member
Well, I don’t care how it gets done as long as it gets done. This is just an obvious and useful extension and really works towards the Metrolinx ‘network’ concept.
Voltz
Senior Member
The extension east to Yonge is not even being considered, yet the EA has already been done.
W. K. Lis
Superstar
Don't think that Pasternak and Filion are part of Ford Nation.
TRONto
Active Member
East is more complex and expensive as a large part of it would be underground. This will require a lot more work and money than the extension to Woodbine GO.
The west extension is an easy win in that it's about 3KM of track, mostly straight with a wide ROW. I think the biggest challenge is getting to grade from Humber station. This project could probably be handled by the current group doing the Finch LRT or the TTC.
W. K. Lis
Superstar
They'll go below grade at Humber College Station, rising upward with a bridge over the Humber River and bulldoze through the parking lots (oh the horrors!) to reach Woodbine GO. It's whether or not to go and stay above grade before or after Rexdale Blvd, that is the question.
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JSF-1
Active Member
Nah the city and/or Metrolinx will find an excuse to bury the entire extension underground and travel under the Humber River thus strapping a rocket to the cost. What should only be a couple hundred million dollars will balloon into a couple of billion because the powers that be have an ungodly obsession with everything needing to be underground.
Rainforest
Senior Member
The eastern extension to Yonge can be done almost entirely at-grade. Might want to go underground at Beecroft, just 200 m before Yonge, and the Yonge LRT station shouldn't be in the middle of the street because of high volume. But the remaining ~ 5.8 km from Keele to Beecroft can run in the street median.
There is another problem though: construction timing. Assuming that Yonge North subway construction will start soon, Yonge Street will become constrained, and getting all the Yonge buses to Finch terminus will become a challenge on its own. One can expect TTC's #53 and #42 shifting from Yonge to Willowdale, and # 60 shitfing from Yonge to Bathurst, for the duration of construction.
If the Finch West LRT construction takes place concurrently with the subway construction, then getting all those buses to the subway terminus will be even more difficult.
But once the subway extension opens, the case for extending Finch LRT to Yonge will become stronger, as it would serve trips along Finch + up Yonge towards RHC.
Voltz
Senior Member
It has already been planned, only part underground is the station at Yonge, and the connection to it from the first intersection west of Yonge.
blaixx
Active Member
The other question is where to put any intermediate stops. My first thought was that Rexdale Blvd was the only obvious spot but TTC bus service is actually only at Queen's Plate drive by the north end of the mall.They'll go below grade at Humber College Station, rising upward with a bridge over the Humber River and bulldoze through the parking lots (oh the horrors!) to reach Woodbine GO. It's whether or not to go and stay above grade before or after Rexdale Blvd, that is the question.
