doady
Senior Member
Weren't there more posts about the merits of the loop here? I think I even made a post opposing it recently. Did the posts get deleted? Or was that in a different thread? I don't remember.
Weren't there more posts about the merits of the loop here? I think I even made a post opposing it recently. Did the posts get deleted? Or was that in a different thread? I don't remember.
Ya. I noticed that too. A whole bunch of posts got deleted from this thread. Someone is selectively editing it.
Weren't there more posts about the merits of the loop here? I think I even made a post opposing it recently. Did the posts get deleted? Or was that in a different thread? I don't remember.
Ya. I noticed that too. A whole bunch of posts got deleted from this thread. Someone is selectively editing it.
It's not just this thread. It seems like half a day's worth of posts were deleted from all the threads (or at least all the ones I follow closely enough to notice).
Back to the loop:
The loop wouldn't be such a bad idea if it was used to short turn every second northbound LRT. In essence, there would be LRVs that went from Port Credit to Brampton, via Hurontario, and LRVs that went from Port Credit to MCC, via the loop. You could also use the loop to run a downtown Mississauga circulator.
Still wasting 10-15 minute traveling time like the 19's does today and servicing next to nothing doing so. The only time it will service the area will be when there is a special event taking place at the Celebration Square. Less than a dozen times a year at the best.
The south numbers out number the north at this time, but what is coming down the line will be almost equal at the end of the day.
A circulator loop will do nothing for the area other than a drain on the pocket book,
When was the last time you were west of Duke of York? They are starting construction of the second phase of the new Sheridan College campus this summer. Currently there are almost 3,000 students there and the second phase will add another 3,000. In addition there are currently there are about 35,000 people living in the "Downtown" neighbourhood, a good portion of them are west of Square One. The plan is to double that in over the next twenty years. Most of that new residential development will happen west of Square One. Office development will be concentrated to the east of Square One. So there could be close to 40,000 people living between Square One and Mary Fix Creek in twenty years. The LRT loop is intended to make all that new development transit-supportive.
For Port Credit, the train simply pulls up at the parking lot, forcing passengers to walk a long ways to the trains. I think a better connection could be made right under the bridge or perhaps the LRT aligning westward along side the corridor as proposed for Brampton GO station at the northern terminus.
Also at Cooksville GO, having passengers disembark and cross the street is a hassle. How about extending the LRT platform south toward the rail bridge and having a pair of escalators leading up the bridge and meet a new westward extension of the GO platforms?
In addition, I see no tail tracks, pocket tracks or spurs to temporary storage anywhere along the corridor. With the single maintenance facility way up by highway 407, it would take a long time to roll out trains in the morning especially near the southern extremities of the line. Not to mention what would happen if an LRV gets disabled midway.
Finally, the northern portion of the route is proposed to be a shared ROW with cars, eliminating street parking which I think is vital to the business and street scape on those last 2 km of the line. Furthermore, they will do away with overhead wires and run the LRV's on battery power - something I don't really seem feasible from an engineering perspective. Why would you design and build a battery powered LRV to run on a line that's 90% running from overhead wires? The battery weight and cost should be taken into consideration, along with a realignment of this part of the line or possibly tunneling.