innsertnamehere
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yes but its getting built.
The elimination of the Oakwood stop always come up, and people seem to ignore the neighbourhood protested to KEEP the stop. The residents want it, Josh Colle worked to make sure the stop wasn't dropped.
The stop isn't going to impact travel times much, and will be a benefit to the area.
Was there talk of the Oakwood stop being eliminated? It doesn't seem any farther from Eglinton West than Mount Pleasant is from Yonge, and they both have stops. Plus it's more dense
It's already started, The Hub is at Eglinton and Oakwood and plays up the underground LRT in all it's advertisements. This certainly opens up a large portion of the city that is prime for added development.
9pm, Friday, March 7 to 4am, Monday, March 10 and
9pm, Friday, March 14 to 4am, Monday, March 17
Eglinton Avenue West at Dufferin Street will be closed during preliminary construction work on the Eglinton Crosstown LRT.
Route 32/307 EGLINTON WEST will divert in both directions via Eglinton Avenue, Caledonia Road, Castlefield Avenue, Roselawn Avenue, Marlee Avenue and Eglinton Avenue.
The underground section, yes. The at-grade section, it depends how they will package it. St. Clair vs. viva vs. C-train/Confederation line stations . We keep saying LRT is not second class transit. But it looks like the at-grade sections in Toronto will be build to look like "second class" (tram stops)...
Back to the original topic, I believe that the Eglinton Crosstown will be able to show people that LRT is not a streetcar, despite the blabbering of retards like Rob Ford.
But it looks like the at-grade sections in Toronto will be build to look like "second class" (tram stops).
I didn't want to derail the KW LRT thread with my thoughts on the public acceptance and possible embrace of LRT in the GTA. Here seems a more apposite place to continue my musings.
I have this sense that people in the GTA don't like LRT because they don't know it. They know streetcars, and don't like them. They know subways, and love them. I remember one pollster commenting on a Scarborough transit poll and say that people didn't like LRT because it was "alien" to them. They were unfamiliar with it, and had no real idea how it would work in practice because they had never seen one, much less ridden on one. Those in the GTA who had gone to places like Calgary and saw how useful the technology can be are, to put it brutally, statistically insignificant. This allows politicians like Ford to play on fears because the other side can't point to examples that most people have experienced. It requires a leap of faith. That's the bad news.
The good news is that when LRT is properly implemented, such as in Calgary, it can be a great success. People get used to the technology, like it, and start wondering why they can't get that for *their* neighbourhood. Calgary and Edmonton are expanding their LRTs, with the KW LRT likely to be expanded after launch. If properly implemented in a timely fashion, I think the Eglinton Crosstown can 'break down the door' on public acceptance of LRT, and people like Ford will be ultimately discredited as their hyped-up fears won't be matched by reality that people experience.
This is my first substantive post, and I hope it matches the level of elucidation I have seen here (for the most part). I am very excited about the possibilities of LRT, and I am very glad to find out I am not the only one. If it would speed things along, I would bring a pick and shovel and help construction myself, if I could.
The underground section, yes. The at-grade section, it depends how they will package it. St. Clair vs. viva vs. C-train/Confederation line stations . We keep saying LRT is not second class transit. But it looks like the at-grade sections in Toronto will be build to look like "second class" (tram stops).
Has Metrolinx released renders of what the at-grade stops are going to look like?