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Originally Posted by caltrane74
LRT lines (or even Streetcar Lines) connecting the Danforth Subway Stations to downtown might be able to do the trick of the DRL without the expense. Might be something the government will look into, if funding cannot be arranged.
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No surface LRT through the downtown core could accommodate the 117 million projected annual riders of the DRL. To put that in perspective, that's more riders than all of the TTC streetcar lines combined, more than any LRT system in North America, and about equal to the entire Vancouver Skytrain system. All on the initial phases of a single subway line.
Granted, that projection is from 2008, but the point remains that the DRL would be one of the most heavily used transit lines in the city. Why it's been such a low priority for so long is baffling.