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Join Metrolinx for a Yonge North Subway Extension Open House!

When:
Thursday, January 25, 2024  |  6:00p.m. – 8:00p.m.

Where:
Langstaff Community Centre
Yorkshire Room
155 Red Maple Road
Richmond Hill, ON
L4B 4P9

Join Metrolinx and learn about what they are planning for the Yonge North Subway Extension. This is a drop-in session with no formal presentation.

Representatives from the Metrolinx project team will be available to answer your questions.

For more information, please visit metrolinx.com/YongeSubwayExt. We look forward to seeing you!

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To stay informed on updates, please also visit the Yonge North Subway Extension project on York Region's webpage.
 
Looks like the Cummer station is dead :( It was a massive struggle to get $67 million for the busway. No chance the city will commit to pay $400 million for the subway station.

Meanwhile, a deeper and likely more expensive Royal Orchard station, which will see much lower usage than Cummer, is funded by Metrolinx.
 
generalcanada said:
toronto.citynews.ca

Funding debate over north Toronto subway expansion

Ontario government officials say the City of Toronto has until Feb. 9, 2024, to commit to paying for adding a subway station at Cummer Avenue while the City wants the province to step up. Melissa Nakhavoly reports.
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Hold on $400-$450 million dollars for 1 station at Cummer? No interchage, just a regular subway stop? York University station cost $150 million dollars in 2017. Something's not adding up.
 
chrisw said:
Well, Royal Orchard will be funded from development fees from development fees in York Region.
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Definitely not from any development around the Royal Orchard station, there is almost nothing there today, and no plans for much new density.

Maybe, a portion of the development fees generated at RH, where the proposed development is massive. But even then, I doubt all those development fees can cover all 3 stations (High Tech, RH, and Royal Orchard).
 
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Railrunner said:
Hold on $400-$450 million dollars for 1 station at Cummer? No interchage, just a regular subway stop? York University station cost $150 million dollars in 2017. Something's not adding up.
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One missed opportunity is the development currently underway at the southeast corner of Yonge & Cummer. There used to be a lowrise plaza with a Food Basic, and a rather large parking lot in that place. Everything was demolished a year or two ago, and new construction is underway now.

Had the subway planners coordinated with that development, they could build the Cummer station first. They would have a wide construction site and easy access, hopefully reducing the total cost. The subway tracks aren't particularly deep at Finch, either.

But even with that option no longer available, $400 million sounds like a lot of money for a basic station.
 
If the Cummer intersection has become so expensive for some reason, then perhaps they could move the station further north, somewhere near Homewood / Centre / Pleasant avenues. Small strip malls on the east side there could be demolished and used for the station site, and then developed on top.

The Cummer and Drewry buses would no longer connect to that midblock station, but on the positive side, it would split the distance between the Finch and Steeles stations more evenly.

Anyway, too late. With the deadline in early February, no chance the city will come up with any workable solution.
 
Railrunner said:
Hold on $400-$450 million dollars for 1 station at Cummer? No interchage, just a regular subway stop? York University station cost $150 million dollars in 2017. Something's not adding up.
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Clearly they must intend to tender it to Sanscon.

So it will open in 2041 and be missing most of the finishes.
 
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