At $280 million/km, we already are getting a light rail line at the cost of a subway on Eglinton. LRT was an odd technology choice for this corridor; it made sense in the Transit City concept of LRT everywhere, where you could share carehouses, equipment, interline, etc. But by itself, with an airport at one end and the SRT at the other and no connecting lines, it would have made more sense as automated ICTS. It would have prevented the $3.5-billion 1-stop SSE from happening, Eglinton west could have been elevated (there is lots of ROW and most of the development there has its back to the road, as a legacy of the Richview expressway) and the 10 km central tunnel would have been cheaper to build because of the smaller cross-section.
I just want to point out in the EA that even the speediest option, which skips Islington, Jane, and every major cross-road, includes stops
here at Silver dart, hedged in by the airport and two highways:
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And another one here on Convair, also hedged in by highways and the airport:
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So I am seriously questioning the judgement and the options decided by an EA which ignores its own business case and then produces this as the approved option:
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