All I can say from the presentation at this time, it reinforce what I see TTC and the city has to do for years. It's time to change the thinking surrounding the car.
The Paris Trams lines are costing about $70m/km that includes major makeover for the street scape as well equpment. That is double what been plan for TC on the surface.
TC ROW is the same height as St Clair ROW.
I love the idea that there is "NO" turning lanes at intersection that eats up the road width here. That 2 lanes in each direction, not the current 6 on St Clair. "ALL" platforms at 3m+ and look a lot better than what up on St Clair.
It quit clear the centre poles will have to go for TC even though I support them, but not the way TTC has done it.
Putting grass down for the ROW is the way to go, but the city needs to install sprinklers to keep the grass green. This will go against City policy about water grass.
It was not quit clear how the fire department/police use the ROW due to communication, but it sounded like no problem.
I like the idea of going out almost a year in advancement to the business to see what their monthly income is before construction start. This way you can see if and how much construction is causing to a business each month. This way you can look at way to compensate the business as well having data to say this will happen for future transit project. From the slide, most business are making more money after construction than before.
The other thing I notice, the short time line for construction once it started for the 8km route. How long has it taken TTC and the city to do 6km of St Clair rebuilding. Going to market in 2006? sounds like 3p's.
The line carries 110,000 riders a day that operates from 6 am to 9:30pm? using Alstom CITADIS 402 38m train that carries 304 riders. It sound like the headway was 4 minutes but could get down to 3.5. The speed has gone from 14 to 18km/hr with goal of 20km. 14,000 new riders have been added to the route since first open as well reduce 3,000 cars.
Another 14.5km extension is plan to get underway in 2009 and open in 2012 at a cost of $740mC. The next train order will be for 28 45m CITADIS.
A lot of new faces in the room for this meeting.
I'm sure others will have a few more things to say. Watch Steve Munro website as he was taking notes and I had no paper to do so.
The other thing noted, on street parking was removed as the city sees it as a bad thing.
