Steve X
Senior Member
The fact is Relief Line is dead. The city/TTC is banned from planning anymore subways so their won't be a RL west or RL north. All the studies that the city did went to the trash can.People are saying Relief Line West, not Ontario Line West. Those are two different things.
It's being referred as 3 projects to distinguish with the smaller RL. Ontario Line adds some mileage towards the north and west of the original RL and it's easier to say RL west instead of saying Osgoode-Exhibition, and RL north instead of Pape-Science Centre. If a longer OL is being delivered instead of a shorter RL, then showing it as 3 projects for purely ease of discussion is by no means fudging.
We never knew where exactly would RL west end up as there was no completed studies nor is there a preliminary decision. One thing is clear is it would not likely end up at Exhibition. I believe we should stop using the term Relief Line all together as that is now a fantasy line. It's easier to say RL west but it is not technically correct to refer it as the western segment of OL. RL north was not finalized either so who knows if it would end up at Science Centre or not.
Personally I think Ontario Line is a better name than Relief Line. It would be named after this great province than so lousy name cause the system is negatively overflowing with riders. They might as well call it Toronto Line as it passes through downtown/city hall. Although I'm not a fan of ML coiling their own names like Eglinton Crosstown West Extension instead of Eglinton West LRT but it made sense as it's not a "LRT" anymore. Scarborough Subway Extension is way better than the TTC calling it Line 2 East Extension.