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I think unless something revolutionary like this is done, Yonge-Bloor will continue to be the bottleneck regardless of the DRL. Whether this is the solution or not, I am not sure - but it is quite an interesting idea.
I think the general employment density in the core has shifted south and west since integrated operations, which would suggest relatively more relief potential for Yonge and Bloor. For Westbound Bloor passengers, an integrated BD-YUS downtown train would be time competitive with a transfer at Yonge-Bloor for anything south or west of King Station.
Dunno, not a typical way of thinking about Yonge-Bloor relief.
I'm not sure about how easy the wye would be to bring back. Based on what Steve Munro and this Briganti have written, the TTC bungled integrated operations by forcing trains to maintain sequence through the junction. Apparently once they changed that things went ok. With more modern signalling and better route management it shouldn't be very hard.