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Originally Posted by lrt's friend
cost, cost, cost. Less mining, less cost. Also, moving from cross-country to under street operations. With cross-country and the deep tunnel, you could make the tunnel big. By following the Queen Street alignment, you have be more concerned about neighbouring buildings and especially underground garages. You basically are restricted to the width of the street corridor. I wonder how this will all work with a Canada Day crush crowd with almost all the passengers ending up at the Downtown East and Rideau stations.
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Queen street has a 4 lane row. Two for a centre platform and two for trains.
But I understand your cost point.
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