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[Leo_Chan]

... we could use a Relief Line West thread. It was mentioned somewhere I believe that consultations would start after RLN is done.

Something like:
TTC: Relief Line Extensions (Proposed)

 

[robmausser]

Ive always thought the purpose of subways should be to not follow roads, but be an express link to destinations.

So I always felt like the DRL West should dip south to connect to The Spadina-Barrie Line station proposed for GO (formally Bathurst North station), the MTCC/CN Tower/Ripleys/Skydome area, Billy Bishop, Exhibition South/Budweiser centre/Ontario Place, Liberty West, etc.

These are all signification destinations in our city.

 

[Leo_Chan]

Ive always thought the purpose of subways should be to not follow roads, but be an express link to destinations.

So I always felt like the DRL West should dip south to connect to The Spadina-Barrie Line station proposed for GO (formally Bathurst North station), the MTCC/CN Tower/Ripleys/Skydome area, Billy Bishop, Exhibition South/Budweiser centre/Ontario Place, Liberty West, etc.

These are all signification destinations in our city.

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That cut from Osgoode to Spadina GO would need to be very deep though...

 

[thettctransitfanatic]

Ive always thought the purpose of subways should be to not follow roads, but be an express link to destinations.

So I always felt like the DRL West should dip south to connect to The Spadina-Barrie Line station proposed for GO (formally Bathurst North station), the MTCC/CN Tower/Ripleys/Skydome area, Billy Bishop, Exhibition South/Budweiser centre/Ontario Place, Liberty West, etc.

These are all signification destinations in our city.

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Gosh sakes, me and @BurlOak ( aka Donald Duck ), were arguing over if the DRL western extension should go to Line 2. We said no, while it might not follow roads, should go to Mississauga, a growing metropolis.

 

[W. K. Lis]

That cut from Osgoode to Spadina GO would need to be very deep though...

Would benefit the Roger Centre(aka SkyDome) and the Scotiabank Arena (aka Air Canada Centre). Maybe name the station "SkyDome Station"?

 

[BurlOak]

Gosh sakes, me and @BurlOak ( aka Donald Duck ), were arguing over if the DRL western extension should go to Line 2. We said no, while it might not follow roads, should go to Mississauga, a growing metropolis.

It's Ludwig Von Drake

I've thought we need 2 new lines through downtown.
One crossing Bloor (not sure where),
The other hitting the Ex (and maybe Humber shores).

 

[thettctransitfanatic]

It's Ludwig Von Drake

Oh okay, I was confused

 

[Midtown Urbanist]

I would branch the DRL West at Dufferin. One going north to Bloor (/Eglinton), and the other to South Etobicoke.

 

[thettctransitfanatic]

I would branch the DRL West at Dufferin. One going north to Bloor (/Eglinton), and the other to South Etobicoke.

Good idea, please no one complain that we are talking about the western extension of the DRL.

 

[thettctransitfanatic]

Something like:
TTC: Relief Line Extensions (Proposed)

Now, should we create the thread, or wait a bit ?

 

[reteequa]

Now, should we create the thread, or wait a bit ?

create it please, I'm consistently disappointed when I open this thread and it is just more talk about an extension that is so many years away and doesn't have much to do with the title of the thread. Thanks!

 

[thettctransitfanatic]

Here is the Relief Line Western Extensions thread :

https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threads/ttc-relief-line-extensions-proposed.29469/

 

[JasonParis]

Ive always thought the purpose of subways should be to not follow roads, but be an express link to destinations.

So I always felt like the DRL West should dip south to connect to The Spadina-Barrie Line station proposed for GO (formally Bathurst North station), the MTCC/CN Tower/Ripleys/Skydome area, Billy Bishop, Exhibition South/Budweiser centre/Ontario Place, Liberty West, etc.

These are all signification destinations in our city.

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This would probably cement Billy Bishop's future too.

 

[jje1000]

So I guess there's no recent news on any sort of progress, just that there's supposedly on-going design work in the background?

 

[Woodbridge_Heights]

It's Ludwig Von Drake

I've thought we need 2 new lines through downtown.
One crossing Bloor (not sure where),
The other hitting the Ex (and maybe Humber shores).

Lately I've been thinking, from a transit hierarchy point of view, the same thing. That a second downtown line may be needed after the DRL. Unfortunatly it looks like the DRL will follow the Queen alignment which puts a fly in my idea of running line from the EX north east through the core and terminating at a new GO RER/Smarttrack station built in the Gerrard/Carlaw/Dundas area