rbt
Senior Member
I stand corrected! But the only problem is that LRT costs much more than subway cars and running 5 cars with ATO increases the total number of LRV's required. To put this in perspective, the TR unit cost is around $3 million, but the unit cost of the new LRV's that the TTC is buying is around $6 million. And I don't know about the availability of low-floor HRT, or any other option, though.
Agreed. The rolling stock is more expensive due to being "street-safe"; just as Montreal has savings on their subway rolling-stock over Toronto because we need ours to be weather resistent.
In my opinion, it is worth the additional rollingstock cost to eliminate the transfer; just as I am in favour of eliminating the SRT to subway transfer at Kennedy.