jcam
Active Member
Esplanade has the Backstage/L Tower pedestrian tunnel at the p3 level, so that one would be hard to manage. Below I threw all the current drawings together. Looks like 45 Bay contemplates a platform much further south than the original loop expansions.So many good ideas on this forum, I wish we could crowd-source more transit planning in this town!
In this case I can't see any benefit to extending Church St for cars. But extending the LRT tunnel east from Union under the Esplanade, with a stop at Church before turning south to Cooper St: that would make St Lawrence a lot more accessible to transit, as well as reaching Queen's Quay East in a pretty economical way.
Also, you could likely get an agreement to build a station in the basement level of 141 Bay, right behind the Dominion Building. I'm not sure the sewer situation on Yonge, but you might be able to bring a tunnel back down under the Gardiner and get to ground level by Harbour.