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Canadian LRT/RT projects U/C
Since we have a few LRT/rapid transit projects under construction right now and some more planned in the future, I suggest we make a specific thread where users can post construction updates of listed projects instead of doing it in one big transit thread with other modes.
Here's the list. Under Construction:
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4. Eglinton Crosstown (Metrolinx) - 25 stations - 19km - 2022
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Edmonton:
NAIT LRT line - nearing completion - 3 stations Valley Line LRT: About to commence with utility relocations. |
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Others in Southern Ontario...
-Kitchener-Waterloo LRT (GRT) -Hamilton RT lines (HSR) -Hurontario LRT (Metrolinx) -London RT lines (LTC) |
5. ion (Grand River Transit) - 16 stations - 19km - 2017
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Should we add BRT projects here?
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But I would nonetheless vote for this thread to be restricted to rail rapid transit projects, excluding BRTs, buses, and commuter rail transit. |
Eglinton LRT will be 2020, and Spadina will be 2017 BTW. your opening dates for those two are both incorrect.
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Sweet idea for a thread. Here are some of the latest updates of the Evergreen Line from the BC Ministry of Transportation flickr accnt:
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8685/...a6123ca7_b.jpgInside Evergreen Line Tunnel by TranBC, on Flickr https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8723/...728a19fc_b.jpgLincoln Station by TranBC, on Flickr https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7377/...8fbd375a_b.jpgEverGREEN Line by TranBC, on Flickr https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7334/...51c7cc6c_b.jpgLincoln Station Pinetree Way North by TranBC, on Flickr |
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In big Eglinton LRT news, the TBMs will be moved over Eglinton West subway station this weekend, I think i'm going to pop up on sunday and take some pics.
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Does Calgary's platform extension (in preparation of 4-car trains) project count? Jeez, this is the first year in 15 years that Calgary doesn't have any rail transit UC.
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if we were talking platform renovations I could list like 10 more large TTC projects going on right now, I think its best to leave it to just expansion.
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I didn't say platform renovation, I said platform expansion. Makes sense though.
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Yeah I think it's best to keep this thread just for new lines, as the transit thread is great for all the other projects.
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From today's Record, the statue of a young William Lyon Mackenzie King sits outside his former high school, Kitchener-Waterloo Collegiate Institute, watching ion construction on King St W. :)
http://i61.tinypic.com/rctw8p.jpg Peter Lee,Record staff |
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*Red line to the west will follow. http://mastermaq.s3.amazonaws.com/pu...ew/lrt_wse.gif (http://mastermaq.s3.amazonaws.com/pu...ew/lrt_wse.gif) Ride the line, video http://www.4lrt.com/portfolios/expan...cept/?pnt=2892 About the Project The Valley Line (Southeast to West Light Rail Transit) is a low-floor urban line that will run from Mill Woods to Lewis Farms, crossing through downtown. The line runs a total length of 27 km and its route has been approved by City Council. Public input helped shape the route, stop/station locations and other details during the Concept Planning phase. During the Preliminary Design stage from February 2012 to November 2013, public engagement helped shape the design philosophy and aesthetic for the Valley Line LRT, providing the City of Edmonton with invaluable knowledge about the communities the LRT will eventually serve. On March 11, 2014, at an event in Churchill Station, the provincial government announced its funding commitment to the Southeast portion of Valley Line LRT Project. With the final funding piece in place--pending Council's approval of the overall funding strategy--the 13 km Valley Line (Mill Woods to Downtown) is now free to proceed. Thanks in part to timely commitments by our provincial and federal partners, the Valley Line will remain on schedule for a construction start of 2016, aiming to be open to the public by the end of 2020. The province has agreed to contribute $250 million in Green Trip funding, $150 million in additional funding, and $200 million in a 10-year interest free loan. This joins the City's own contribution of $800 million, along with the federal government's contribution of $250 million from PPP Canada and an expected $150 million through the Building Canada Fund. http://www.edmonton.ca/transportatio...wis-farms.aspx |
Nice to see the limited amount of park and rides included. For all the mistakes that have been made under the veil of making the line more "urban" so far, fewer park and rides is actually a legitimate way of doing so.
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Can we have the location (metro area names) added for each line. Also, can we add a simple title for technology type to each project as well? Maybe use the following: Metro (fully grade separated), Partial at grade LRT (if more than half of the line is grade separated), At grade LRT (over half is at grade), Other at grade urban rail (trams), HRT Commuter Rail (not sure if this is included on this thread). |
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Fully grade separated Non fully grade separated Commuter Rail This is an important distinction used in many transit articles / ranking systems. |
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Evergreen Line is fully grade separated.
Younge / Spadina is fully grade separated (99% sure). Confederation Line is fully grade separated (90% sure). The rest are Non fully grade separated I think. |
yup, those 3 are fully seperated.
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Yeah, the Eglinton Line is not full grade seperated yet it is the most expensive transit project in Canadian History (no inflation of course) But a large part of that is due to the 12 km of underground construction through midtown Toronto. This weekend saw the tunnel boring machine come above ground level for the first time since it went into the ground at Black Creek near the Etobicoke border on the western edge of the city. I'm not 100% but once the Tunnel Boring Machine gets to Yonge and Eglinton it will have to come above ground again before it continues it journey onto Don Mills, one suburban block away from the Scarborough border at Victoria Park, where the line will run at Street level until it hits Kennedy Road.
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^ I thought there were 2 other TBMs that entered in the east portal and they would all meet at Yonge?
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Don't get me wrong, I liked Mackenzie-King. Great leadership during the war, policies seemed decent from what I've seen, created Gatineau Park, which is awesome, but he was responsible for the steep decline of Ottawa's downtown in the mid-century. |
A TTC Streetcar map with a few U/C connections like into the Distillery?Canary Districts and proposed lines.
Posted by: Andrew Alfred-Duncan http://i.imgur.com/UjRWGyI.png |
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- The 20s saw the emphasis shift from investment to value for stockholders, so profits weren't being reinvested. - The 30s just weren't a good decade for transit ridership or profits - The war monopolized resources for the 40s So by the 50s, you had unprofitable companies running infrastructure which was almost a half-century old which would require significant investments to bring up to scratch. Twenty years earlier or later, governments might have payed up, but this was a time when there was a firm belief that cars and subways were the future and that streetcars were relics of a bygone era. Without investment in renewal, the new publicly-owned transit corporations determined that it wasn't worth the expense and that buses could do the job for much less. We didn't save the streetcars, but I think that it was wild speculation and corporate shortsightedness that lead the streetcar to its untimely (but temporary, from the looks of it) death. But I totally agree with you that a lot of Greber's plan was inestimably damaging to Ottawa. |
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It played out a little differently in Kingston.
Our streetcar system was largely a failure from the get go. Kingston started up a horse-drawn streetcar system (horses on tracks pulling streetcar cabs, essentially), in the 1870s (I wanna say 1878) followed by a full fledged electric streetcar system in 1891. It was never much of a success. Back in those days, Kingston was a small enough city that one could walk from point A to point B pretty much anywhere in the city in a half hour or less, and there was never a lot of money in the city, so most people cheaped out and just walked everywhere instead of paying the streetcar fare. The city constantly gave it loans (many of which were forgiven) to cover its costs. When a fire broke out in the 1930s and burned down the garage, the city just gave up rather than buy more cars, and buses were brought in. |
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They aren't done with them yet. Over the weekend of April 17–20, 2015, Dennis and Lea will be lifted out of the extraction shaft located just west of Allen Road, and moved to the launch shaft just east of Allen Road. The TBMs are being moved in order to bypass the TTC subway line in this area. http://www.thecrosstown.ca/news-medi...day-april-20-a |
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Plus they will probably want to sell them like they did for the Spadina TBMs, which were sold for a Russian subway project. |
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Notice that Light Rail Transit, doesn't mean Light Rapid Transit.
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